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A funny thing that happened. (Well I think it is).

Shorty2U — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 01:24:35 GMT

My husband and I went out to eat at our favorite locally owned restaurant tonight. You can eat in the dining room OR get take out.

So you eat in the dining area, then you go pay @ the counter in the front where people pick up take out.

While we were paying some well to do looking man was talking to the owner, trying to get his order. The owner said there's nothing here for you, but there is another restaurant 4 towns over with the same name but a DIFFERENT phone number and address (because the family owns 2 places, the other one run by other family members not the ones that run this one).

The owner said you must have ordered at the other one (many miles away).

The man says to the owner. Ohhh no that CANT BE! My CELL PHONE TOLD ME TO COME HERE!

Omg, I stood there while DH was waiting to pay, and DH and I were laughing so bad under our breath we were starting to choke.

This world is getting full of zombies. I mean use your brain!

Because according to the conversation this fellow lives around here. And the PHONE number to order his food would MATCH with the ADDRESS he was calling. Thus he would then go to the SAME address HE called! (It would be different if he was traveling from another area and unfamiliar with his surroundings).

I don't know what happened if he went to the other place or if this place accommodated him and made him food because we left while the guy was still freaking out blaming the CELLPHONE!

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muttmom — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 02:00:39 GMT

Why didn't he or the owner call the other restaurant and see if they had his order. If they didn't, the location where he was could make it for him.

I guess I have a different sense of humor because I would not be laughing at the guy.

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brii — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 02:03:53 GMT

I feel bad for him. He probably didn't know there were 2 locations.

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Chalcedony — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 02:29:09 GMT

He might have made a mistake when looking up the restaurant in the phone map but I don't see why anyone would think it was so funny as to provoke choking. I suspect that, if the tables were turned and you had made a mistake OP, you would be here commenting and seeking sympathy about the rude pair of diners in the restaurant who were laughing at you.

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MaRina — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 02:33:54 GMT

LOL, blame the cell phone Ha!

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sophiamarie — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 02:36:56 GMT

I still don't know what's so funny about this. LOL I certainly wouldn't be laughing so hard that I would be choking..... I guess it doesn't take much to make some people laugh????? LOL

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lovescats — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 02:41:12 GMT

to me it would have made more sense if the owner would have called the other restaurant and checked for the guy

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adelle38 — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 02:46:26 GMT

On 9/20/2014 lovescats said:
to me it would have made more sense if the owner would have called the other restaurant and checked for the guy

I agree. Nothing funny to me.

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Sushismom — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 03:24:01 GMT

Some apps pretty much do it all for you so what happened isn't beyond the realm of possibility.

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september — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 03:30:11 GMT

I think it's insulting to say the man should have used his brain. He was using a cell phone app that didn't give him the correct info. This happens to me sometimes, too!

In fact, it happened with an appointment I had just a few weeks ago. The person had moved to a new office, just a few blocks away, so fortunately I wasn't late.

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Shorty2U — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 04:45:10 GMT

We didn't hear what happened, we left. Im sure the owner made him food or he drove to the other place. The owner is very kind.

Why do we think its funny?

Because people use cellphones and not common sense. He called the other place to order. If he used his cell that places address came up. He lives here, yet goes where his cellphone tells him?

As in people now punch in where to go on phones when they are local and do what their phone says? Then he was blaming the phone?

He was able bodied, or I wouldn't laugh at him. And he was local because he was talking about being there before and their ingredients.

So to me a lot of these people hanging on phones 24/7 are in la la land and not paying attention like when theyre driving, walking, etc. I see this all the time in stores on the roads etc.

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september — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 04:52:34 GMT

And people who don't use cell phones never make mistakes??? Never get lost, are never late, but just "use common sense" and do everything perfectly?

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MyBoyRusty — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 13:14:48 GMT

Do you ever make any mistakes? Why is it that people often laugh at things that's not the least bit funny.

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brii — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 16:07:17 GMT

On 9/20/2014 Shorty2U said:
We didn't hear what happened, we left. Im sure the owner made him food or he drove to the other place. The owner is very kind.

Why do we think its funny?

Because people use cellphones and not common sense. He called the other place to order. If he used his cell that places address came up. He lives here, yet goes where his cellphone tells him?

As in people now punch in where to go on phones when they are local and do what their phone says? Then he was blaming the phone?

He was able bodied, or I wouldn't laugh at him. And he was local because he was talking about being there before and their ingredients.

So to me a lot of these people hanging on phones 24/7 are in la la land and not paying attention like when theyre driving, walking, etc. I see this all the time in stores on the roads etc.

He made a mistake. It happens.

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MyBoyRusty — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 16:26:44 GMT

I have a neighbor up the street that has a bad habit of laughing at things that's not funny top it off she doesn't hide it she laughs right in the peoples faces.

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adelle38 — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 16:34:09 GMT

We don't even know that he made a mistake. It could be he had a faulty cell phone app that gave him the wrong information. In any case, I wouldn't laugh at him.

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sciencegeek_1 — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 16:43:19 GMT

Even if they hadn't used a cell phone, mix ups happen. If you used an old fashioned printed phone book, those lines are very close together and you could write down the address from the line below by accident.

Many people use GPS to get from one place to another. Even in our own towns--streets wind around and cross each other at weird places, and there are new developments on the edge of town. If you're unsure where you're going, it IS common sense to use GPS.

It's beyond tacky to laugh at them, even tackier to come here and ridicule them.

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SoftRain — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 17:03:45 GMT

Wow...NOT funny, at all! Everyone is clearly not as perfect and astute as you!!! I would never find another persons confusion a reason to make fun of them! You mentioned he "was a well to do looking man". Not sure what that has to do with anything. Clearly from the response here, you didn't "use your brain" before you posted. You should be ashamed for being so rude and condescending! And, what does him appearing "able bodied" have to do with whether or not you would laugh at him? Unbelievable.....!!!!

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lulu2 — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 18:35:51 GMT

Another vote for not funny.

I do not laugh at someone else's misfortune.

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heartkeeper — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 18:41:18 GMT

On 9/20/2014 Chalcedony said: He might have made a mistake when looking up the restaurant in the phone map but I don't see why anyone would think it was so funny as to provoke choking. I suspect that, if the tables were turned and you had made a mistake OP, you would be here commenting and seeking sympathy about the rude pair of diners in the restaurant who were laughing at you.

ITA.

OP and her husband seem quite nasty about this. It isn't funny at all.