had to explain to a customer that the reason his non-rechargeable batteries broke open in his battery charger should be self-explanatory.
. . . the batteries had the legend "do not recharge, batteries may break open" printed in small alarming letters in two places on them.
it seems that reading is not strongly encouraged in school anymore.
TheSTSP
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hey can yoou send me an mp3 of you reading this plurk outloud. I keep trying to read it but my ADD set's in after the word "explain" 
TheSTSP
says
yeah unfortunately we live in a world where Wal Mart has spoiled people into the mentality that the customer is always right
TheSTSP
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no matter how ridiculously wrong they are.
well, I think "the customer is always right" mentality has existed since the birth of capitalism, really
But this example is pretty impressively bad