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Electricity Finally Makes It to Middle America

Customer: What are all of those light switches for?
Store clerk, without looking up: For turning things on and off.

Wichita, Kansas

Overheard by: Chandra

  • Posted on February 1, 2008
  • Comebacks, Dumb Customers, General Idiocy, Kansas, Questions, Receptionists, Technology
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