Sometimes things get muddled
I took something to the dry cleaners today, and I saw a sign on the window that said:
"We cannot except credit cards at this time. Sorry for the inconvinence."
I think it's funny when things actually say the opposite of what they are intended to say. Of course, everybody who reads the sign knows that the credit card machine is broken, or something like that, and they can't take credit card payments. But, since the word "except" can be a verb meaning "to exclude," what they actually are saying is "We cannot refuse to take credit card payments at this time."
A similar thing occured back in Little Rock at the Phillips 66 on Cantrell and Pleasant Ridge (which also happened to be next to a dry cleaners). The gas pumps had a sign promoting a 0.3 cent per gallon discount in gas if you used a Phillips 66 credit card.
Three tenths of a cent.
"We cannot except credit cards at this time. Sorry for the inconvinence."
I think it's funny when things actually say the opposite of what they are intended to say. Of course, everybody who reads the sign knows that the credit card machine is broken, or something like that, and they can't take credit card payments. But, since the word "except" can be a verb meaning "to exclude," what they actually are saying is "We cannot refuse to take credit card payments at this time."
A similar thing occured back in Little Rock at the Phillips 66 on Cantrell and Pleasant Ridge (which also happened to be next to a dry cleaners). The gas pumps had a sign promoting a 0.3 cent per gallon discount in gas if you used a Phillips 66 credit card.
Three tenths of a cent.
posted by jigawatt at 6:11:00 PM
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