Not only do people not read, they don’t listen either.
Wrong. They don’t listen in the specific circumstance you expected them to listen. The beginning of a conversation isn’t meant to carry information. It only sets up the communication channel. The thing people are “listening” to are: Is the other person loud enough? Are they speaking my language? Do they have an accent that requires special attention from me to understand?
When people call a store, they expect the first few seconds of dialogue to be a greeting, which can be ignored; the name of the store, which they know; some phrase to indicate politeness, which they don’t care about; and then either silence or some other indication that the other end is now ready to process their request.
These expectations have been hammered into their brains for years by every store they have ever called. You are the odd one out. By trying to be extra helpful and give them what they want, you throw them off. Of course they need to recover, because the plan they had for how the conversation was to be going needs readjustment.
This also assumes that the callers had a chance to understand what you were saying in the first seconds. The first syllable or so of a conversation might be cut off because the line isn’t established quickly enough (which throws off the processing of the rest of the sentence). Their phones might not be set loud enough for the volume you’re transmitting. You might have fallen victim to the disease every person who regularly says the same things on the phone suffers from: You rattle off your script so quickly (and mumblingly) that the other person doesn’t understand.
All this is based on my experience and theory on how communication works. Don’t take it for granted. I’m no expert.
Well, did you actually read at least the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article I linked?
registers, big neon signs to say "hey douchenozzle, next one this is closed)
This is just bad design. Almost comically, your sign shouts, “Look at me, there’s nothing to see here”. You’re drawing attention away from where people should go. Of course this isn’t going to work.
Whoever thought advertising a closed register was a good idea needs to have their idea generator checked.
big neonsign at the door at eyeheight telling people when the store opens, 1 out of 6 people looks at it the rest doesnt even see it, one once was even mad and blew out the doorglass with a kick.
This sounds like real-world banner blindness. Almost all neon signs are ads or usless bling-bling to catch your attention. It’s no wonder people don’t look at them anymore.
sending a text or an email to the shop and making them spell it out for you!
That’s because the shops know that no-one reads the website and doesn’t bother to update the opening hours when they change.
Also office chairs with headrests, for whatever reason.
You guys got gloves recommended? For Germans it was only masks.
“Friends aren’t the people we like best. They’re merely those who got here first.”
I don’t know who said that, but I think that’s true, too.
That looks like the SFW version of a porn movie storyboard.
Same with fruit. Who cares if the apple has a brown spot if it gets eaten the same day?
Now you’re telling me about subtext in my own writing.
I think leisesprecher was right about “being too absorbed in their own circle jerks”.
My point is that you interpreted a statement as bragging that two other people didn’t. How exactly does saying so weaken my own point?
your statement indeed comes across as an attempt to brag
Not to me.
Right page, 6th line, second character is wrong.
Cannot… unsee…
Psst. We don’t do logic here.
Is that Tom Scott from the future?
Yes, those who grew up with smartphones are lost, too.
I think that’s just the sound Goofy makes.