blueprint...
paw print...
thumb print
...toe print??...eerr...what the...???
Hahahahahaha...out of a sudden the word print just sends me giggles thru my system....hahahahaha...here was what happened...and it is more than just a snippet...
Back in 1990, I was on a shift job at KFC...yup, on it temporarily while waiting for my SPM results. There, I first started as a floorstaff...kinda waitress at that time. It was still with a floor service where floorstaff will go to your table and get your orders. Hardly there is anymore now as mostly are with self-service where orders are made at the counters with immediate payment.
As usual of a normal practice, a newly joined will be kept busy with all kinda forms to fill...yup, that didn't exclude me...
After the closing time, apart from myself, seated at a round table in the restaurant were probably around 3 or 4 existing staff of my superiors and the floor manager. Filling up my personal particulars, on and off taking my purse to get those info...sticking up photo that I brought along earlier as was told...and again, the same particulars that i needed to fill up another form...haa...yadda yadda yadda...
Then I came to the lower end of the page...signature line and below it was a box for thumb print...hmm...ok. But just after I did all that...
"...ok, now your toe print...the right one.."
"...what??..serious??...err..."
"...yes, we normally requires that too...i know...i know...but it is no joke..."...they were full with serious facial expression ever!...
Over and over again they seriously assuring me that this was not and never a joke. This was a requirement by the top management!!!...
"...now you can take this form together with you and do it in the room over there if u r not comfortable to do it here with us around...be quick!...we need to close up the outlet...it's already late...remember, the right one!...here's the ink pad...careful!...no smudges..."...says the lady manager with pretty much a damn serious ever and kinda exhausted look...as few seconds more the clock was to strike midnite...
With an awkward feeling, mix with humour at the same time with u-must-be-kidding-me impression, i took the form and went inside a small staff room. Well...ok then...
...took my shoes off...my socks off...urrghh!!...afta a hard day at work of walking around taking and servicing customers' orders...what else to expect??...smelly feet o'coz...yikes!!...heee...syhh...
...placed my toe...yup, I remembered...the right one!...on the ink pad...rolled it to the left and then to the right...just as I was told...then, carefully stamped it in the box at the lower page of the form...just beside the box of my thumb print...rolled it to the left and then, to the right...wallah!!...perfectly happy...done with a perfect line print...no smudges...it was just perfect!...
"...there u go...done..."
"...great one!...well done!...but I guess, the top management requirement just changed a minute ago while u were "in the act"..."
"...huhh??..what do u mean?.."
"...the top only requires the thumb print now..."...and immediately all of the staff roared with great laughters...HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA...
"...I knew it!!...I knew it!...u mean people!!!...hhhahahahahhahaha.."...can't hold my laughter any longer...yup!...I was played...and I was plaaaayed damn well!!..hahahahahahhaha...
They even told me after that how they enjoyed every single minute of me behaving and adhering to that "get-jiggy-with-it" instructions....hahahahahhahahahahahhaha....
Try to toe-print yourself peeps!...it's not easy u knoww....HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA....
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