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StainBlue
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Funny Tidbit
#5535775 - 04/19/06 10:09 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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I know this should be mentioned on a different forum (and might be moved appropriately) but I just had to throw this out on this forum.
Earlier today I was at the pet store buying some coco coir. The brand was "bed-a-beast". When I got to the counter to pay for it the lady asked me, "What kind of beast?"
She caught me off gaurd and I had to come up with an answer so I said, "what?" to buy myself some time to think. I mean afterall I couldnt just say, "I'm buying it for no reason."
Then she said again, "What kind of Beast?"
I responded with, "An iguana."
I must have had the words liar written on my forehead because she just looked at me like I was full of shit.
It doesnt stop there. She probed even further.
"What's his name?", she asked.
"Her name," I said, "and she doesn't have one."
She then looked at me again as if I was full of shit. She said, "hmph. Well have fun."
HAVE FUN! As if she knew what I was up to!
I dont know, some might not find this funny but I could hardly contain myself as I walked back to the car. I just had to throw this out there for those who could appreciate the uneasiness of the situation.
-------------------- Peace, StainBlue
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IGnosticAbhorI
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Re: Funny Tidbit [Re: StainBlue]
#5535795 - 04/19/06 10:14 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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I bought like 10 airstones in wal mart once. They lady said" you must have lots of fish."
I got,"No, I have a worm farm."...Then smiled...hahah
She looked mad, but my sarcasim threw her off and she shut the hell up ...Just some FYI.
-Gnostic
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KaptKid
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Re: Funny Tidbit [Re: StainBlue]
#5535806 - 04/19/06 10:17 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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As time goes, the answers will become natural
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splifner180
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Re: Funny Tidbit [Re: StainBlue]
#5535815 - 04/19/06 10:20 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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I can definitely see why that freaked you out.
If I might offer some advice (which you probably don't need anymore), whenever I go to buy something for a grow I ALWAYS have a reason to give for what I'm getting, even if it's completely legal.
For example, if you're going to buy hpoo locally, read up on composting. At least enough to know how hpoo might be used in a compost heap.
And if you still manage to get caught unawares just give a blank stare and say "uuh, I don't know, a friend of a friend asked if I could pick [item] up on my way to [someplace else nearby]."
I went to buy some micropore tape the other day but couldn't find any on the shelves. Started talking to the clerk behind the counter and she asked "what are you using it for?" I just said "no clue, someone asked me to pick it up and they were very specific that it had to be 'micropore'."
splif
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cappa
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Re: Funny Tidbit [Re: KaptKid]
#5535842 - 04/19/06 10:27 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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lol a similar situation happened when I bought a lizard heating pad and an aquarium heater.
She was like: 'Um can I help you? Those two products don't go together. What kind of animals do you have?'
I said: 'A science experiment that needs heat.'
She went on about how she was confused blah blah.. Then laughingly wished me luck on my experiment as I left.
She didn't ask me what kind of experiment, luckily, I hadn't really thought that far ahead.
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PORkSOdA
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Re: Funny Tidbit [Re: cappa]
#5535870 - 04/19/06 10:34 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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I've never had anyone ask me what I needed supplies for. I always have had prepared answers too. It's such a waste... I know the first time I don't have an answer ready to go I'll be asked too.
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mogur
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Re: Funny Tidbit [Re: cappa]
#5535875 - 04/19/06 10:36 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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I bought some bulk WBS at the local grocery store, and the checkout lady asked if I was going to go home and feed the starving birds. I said no, I'm using it to grow mushrooms. She didn't bat an eye. They are just making conversation, relax. If your pupils are dilated and the walls are breathing, don't go to the store.
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IGnosticAbhorI
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Re: Funny Tidbit [Re: mogur]
#5535891 - 04/19/06 10:40 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Quote:
If your pupils are dilated and the walls are breathing
A friend tried to cross the highway to get there (store), he said all he saw were millions of lights that followed these things that made a lot of noise when you got near them...
-Gnostic
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StainBlue
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Re: Funny Tidbit [Re: mogur]
#5535927 - 04/19/06 10:50 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Yeah I wasnt really freaked out. I mean I have been growing for a while now. It's just I have never, not even once, had someone ask me specific questions about my purchase and this time it caught me totally off gaurd.
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ezsefix
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Quote:
IGnosticAbhorI said:
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If your pupils are dilated and the walls are breathing
A friend tried to cross the highway to get there (store), he said all he saw were millions of lights that followed these things that made a lot of noise when you got near them...
-Gnostic
"When we were on acid I saw these bright beams of light, and heard things that sounded an awful lot like car horns."
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skeletor
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Re: Funny Tidbit [Re: ezsefix]
#5536048 - 04/19/06 11:29 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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i was buying an aquarium heater and the lady asked what sized tank. < oh shit> so i said im not sure. she proceeded to parade me around showing me all the tanks. does it look like this. this, this, this? eventually i just picked on to shut her up. then she started asking about what fiahs i had. again i said i didn't know. what colors are they. she started guying about fish she eventually came up with the answer she wanted and i was fre to make my puchase. it wasn't scary more then awkward. at least where i live no one would ever ever figure out what i was up to. even if i said what i was actually doing they wouldn't believe me.
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Re: Funny Tidbit [Re: ezsefix]
#5536050 - 04/19/06 11:29 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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I usually tell them to fuck off in not so many words. I was at the homebrewing store buying some dextrose and calcium carbonate. He asked what I needed the stuff for. I told him I was doing an experiment and I need a source of sugar and something to balance pH. You know, exactly what the stuff is used for.
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d4a2n0k
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Re: Funny Tidbit [Re: StainBlue]
#5536082 - 04/19/06 11:39 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Yeah no need to worry or have an excuse, when I went to the feed store to get stuff for casing they asked what I was using it for. When I said growing mushrooms they were more apt to listen to what I needed because there just trying to help ya, and when they realize that they haven't a clue about growing mushrooms, then they just listen and give ya what ya need!
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Edgekrusher
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I hear ya man. I'm in the process of moving, but the thing is I'm only moving 3 houses down the street. So I'm pretty much constantly carrying little tid bits with me as I walk back and forth.
Well, earlier today I was carrying 2 bulky AA Pressure Cookers (21qts) down the street when my old retired neighbor waves me hello. He yells something like "looks like someone's cooking"
I stuttered a second then said, "Yeah, hopefully someone will. I bought it for my grandma for her birthday."
Then not to just run off, I started chit-chating on about All American's metal-to-metal seal, and how this old version has the classic pressure release rather than the wabble weight. Ends up the old man cans vegetables and has a few AAs of his own, and we get into this 20 minute discussion on pressure cookers.
I won't go into detail, but I walked away laughing. I just couldn't believe I had such a conversation.
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DrAbominable
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Avoid the questions by stealing what you need.
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StainBlue
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Yeah being caught off gaurd like that is more awkward than anything.
EdgeKrusher, that was a good story. You had me rolling on the floor lauhing dude. In this hobby we all have moments of wierdness because of all the random stuff it requires, so its funny as hell to hear how some of us handle those moments differently.
-------------------- Peace, StainBlue
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fungiamongi2
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some of us arent thieves. and id like to see you walk out of petsmart with a 100 lbs of wbs
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StainBlue
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Now that would be funny to see someone try.
I would also like to add that stealing is illegal.
lol Sorry I couldnt resist
-------------------- Peace, StainBlue
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Re: Funny Tidbit [Re: StainBlue]
#5536217 - 04/20/06 12:46 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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i stood there deadpanned when the aquarium store girl asked me "what are you building?"
um i dont know i need to keep my fish warm.. right?
then i asked her for a hygrometer ;p apparently they didnt sell them
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DrAbominable
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Re: Funny Tidbit [Re: ManianFH]
#5536326 - 04/20/06 01:49 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Its called a joke!!! I wasn't implying anyone here being a thief, I was simply saying , you can avoid questions by stealing what you need. Obviously one cannot steal a 100lb bag of WBS. Besides isn't every thing you post here fictious? I know mine are!
The self-right?eous attitudes are turning my stomach mother, may I please be excused. 
Peace
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Shampioenier
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BEWARE PETSTORE EMPLOYEES!!! (Really) [Re: DrAbominable]
#5536428 - 04/20/06 02:53 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Well interesting enough I was asking for an incubator to incubate gecko eggs with, since you get incubators for quail eggs and shit, you know, so I get the number from this guy who builds incubators and shit. Ends up he doesn't want to build me an incubator larger than a camping cooler, I says, I got da cash. He's just like, no sorry. Very suspicious, reason bein when he heard trhe 28 degrees incubation temperature it sent off alarm bells. the bastard. its cool tho i have an ol deep freeze nice n big w a fishtank heater in there...
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Shampioenier
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Re: BEWARE PETSTORE EMPLOYEES!!! (Really) [Re: Shampioenier]
#5536432 - 04/20/06 02:57 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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btw, some of us we dont got ta worry bout no suspicions bout cracked corn and all, seein we be lookin like red necks needin ta feed da chickens. Just dont go a pimpin in dere wid yo hoody and baggies yo.
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hIgHdRoLoVeR
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Re: Funny Tidbit [Re: StainBlue]
#5536494 - 04/20/06 04:06 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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haha similar thing happend at home depot yesterday...asked the lady where garden lime was and where i could find a soil ph kit...she shows me then asks "so..uh...what kinda project u got goin on?" i replied with "well honestly, its none of your business but since you insist on bein nosy...im grwoing peppers and tomatoes on my balcony in pots" what was she gonna do? report me rofl...fk nosy people and their questions. its really none of their business and if they are doing their job they will mind their own. i hate feeling like i have to explain myself when i spend my hard earned money... the place i plan to go from here on out (didnt today got sidetracked) never probes into my busines...its a feed and organic gardening store...guess they just figure i like to work with soil..no one has ever asked me what i grow there and i like the people.
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Edgekrusher
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hIgHdRoLoVeR, I think you should try working retail. Everyone should, atleast once in life.... prefferably during December.
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nycomyco
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I was thinking the same sort of thing. Someone asking you what you're working on isn't necessarily nosy. When I used to work retail I would occasionally make conversation with customers just to be friendly and pass the time. Also, they might be trying to learn something so that when someone else comes in with a question about, say growing psychedelic mushrooms, they can know how to help them. Of course, there are those who really are nosy and will pick on you just for getting shady combinations of products or wearing a hoodie.
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nycomyco
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Re: Funny Tidbit [Re: nycomyco]
#5537520 - 04/20/06 12:24 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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And when I get Hpoo, i've never been hassled, but I always carry my school ID so I can tell them I'm "investigating variation in the panaeolus genus of fungus for a mycobiology professor of mine." That should shut them up.
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cappsnstems
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Re: Funny Tidbit [Re: nycomyco]
#5537680 - 04/20/06 12:56 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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hahaha that's funny.....
i went and bought a whole bunch of supplies in the dead of winter.......like verm and perlite and shit
and the chick at the register was like "well it's nice to see someone trying to grow plants with weather like this."
like i was growing pot or something.....
and i told her it was for a "mycology" project........ i think she thought i said "biology", because she was like "oh! well good luck! I hope you get a good grade!"
hahaha stupid people don't know what mycology is.
and calling my mom and asking her to get me rubber gloves and 10 cc syringes with needles from her work.........that was pretty funny.
and having my PC come into work from UPS, and my food dehydrator.......my secretary thinks something is up because i always complain that i can't cook. hahaha
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kanpan
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When I first started with this hobby I went to the local Walgreen Drugstore to buy syringes. I asked for 10cc with the biggest needles they had preferably 16 or 18 gauge. The pharmacist asked me what I was going to use them for. I wasn't really prepared for questions so I just said for a mycology project. He raised his eyebrows and sold me the stuff. I decided then to look online for syringes. ENJOY.
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shroomballa
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Re: Funny Tidbit [Re: kanpan]
#5537781 - 04/20/06 01:29 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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I was questioned when I was purchasing syringes as well, I said i needed them for epoxy, I had some shit to glue. Because they were large syringes and large needles, it was rather believable. On another occasion, I purchased verm, perlite, and a huge brick of coir, and the lady asked. "How much does this stuff expand?" me - "I have no idea, i've never used it" Her - "What are you using it for?" me - "To keep my soil moisture up." then peaced out with my shit.
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redshadow
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yeah i got caught off gaurd at the oet store the other night. i cal lover there and start asking questions about their hydrometers and prices and what not. they the guy says, "what kind of pet?" i was like "uhhh......., it snot for a pet. im growing plants." he's like "what kinda plants.", with a somthin funny in his voice. well most plants that like humidity are tropical, and the first tropical plant i could think of was a HBWR plant, so i spit that out. he like "i never herd of it." i mentioned its a family of the morning glory plant. he asked "arent those plants poisonous?" i replied "yes". then my stoned ass with glazed over eyes told him im a internet florist. i ship rare flowers and plants all over the world. ahahah. its was funny. just in case you come across a suspicious asshole like that guy, who knew i was gowin somthin, and not sure if he's gona rat you out or just another grower finding you out. make sure you buy your stuff with cash, un traceable. atm debit, credit card, check. if the person turns out to to be crazy and want to report you they'll just look up the sale, see whom it was to, and call the goo ol P.D. probably a rare occurrence, but i witnessed it once when i used at work at a pet store.
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