Order of the Fenex

[annafugazzi]

For his dad's birthday this year, EK made him a cross-stitched phoenix:



Dad was pleased. And instead of making it into a cushion, he wanted it framed. So this week I took it to a framing store.

Clerk: *gives extensive, informative and very helpful suggestions re. frames*
Me: *nods and says uh-huh a lot*
Clerk: All right, then, I'll type up the estimate... *types in size, frame, etc.* Hm... what would you call the picture... *types in Flaming chicken under "description"*
Me: LOL! Yeah, I guess it does look a bit like that.
Clerk: *blinks, a bit startled*
Me: Like a chicken. It's actually a phoenix.
Clerk: *keeps blinking*
Me: You know, a phoenix? Rises from its ashes? *pause* It's a mythical bird. It dies in flames, then it's born again out of its ashes.
Clerk: OK... *smiles vaguely* So... do you want me to type that in, then?
Me: *struggles not to snicker* Yeah, sure.
Clerk: *types in Fenex*
Me: *struggles some more*
Clerk: I'll put "flaming chicken" in brackets, though, for the other staff, in case I'm not here when you come to get it done. Just so they know what it means.
Me: Um, yeah. Thanks. That'll... that'll probably help. *keeps straight face on till safely out of store* *snorfles on the street*

Comments

[piratesmile331.livejournal.com]

What planet was this clerk from?

[annafugazzi.livejournal.com]

LOL not one I want to visit any time soon ;)

[aprettyeternity.livejournal.com]

...*snorts*

Go Flaming Chicken GO!

Clerk gets the fail stamp of faildom.

[annafugazzi.livejournal.com]

Go Flaming Chicken GO!

Clerk gets the fail stamp of faildom.
Oh thanks - now EK is saying both of these lines ad nauseum :D :D :D

[aprettyeternity.livejournal.com]

Rofl. That's amazing. ^_^

[meredyth-13.livejournal.com]

Love the Flaming Chicken!

I read this anecdote to my partner as we lay in bed this morning - there was much chuckling and eye rolling.

Um... do Fenex deliver very fast, very hot parcels door to door?

Of ocurse, there's also the Feenicks

:D

[annafugazzi.livejournal.com]

Um... do Fenex deliver very fast, very hot parcels door to door?
::groan::

It took me a moment to get this.

::groan::

::must share the pain::

[officerjudy.livejournal.com]

HAHAHA. XD

[coffeejunkii.livejournal.com]

okay, i totally would have been bitchy enough to go, "that's actually p-h-o-e-n-i-x" :P

but lol, flaming chicken :))

[annafugazzi.livejournal.com]

okay, i totally would have been bitchy enough to go, "that's actually p-h-o-e-n-i-x" :P
Read this out to my partner and he immediately said, "OMG me TOO!"

[tree00faery.livejournal.com]

Lol, that's amusing. Reminds me of "Brown Coat, Green Eyes" by nonjon (on ffn) - It's an amazing Harry Potter/Firefly crossover. Harry calls Fawkes a fire turkey at one point. ^_^ But flaming chicken is pretty good too...

[annafugazzi.livejournal.com]

Harry calls Fawkes a fire turkey at one point. ^_^
LOL!!

Damn, I'm going to giggle next time we watch Chamber of Secrets :D :D :D

[owens-mom.livejournal.com]

That is really really funny, and now I'll have trouble not thinking of Fawkes as a flaming chicken. *giggle*

[annafugazzi.livejournal.com]

::snicker:: Me too - somehow I just know next time we're watching Chamber of Secrets, we'll have to pause at a certain scene for the giggles :D :D :D

[anemonerose.livejournal.com]

OMG. Flaming chicken? That's too hysterical for words. And "Fenex". Good God. *dies laughing*

[annafugazzi.livejournal.com]

Fenex. You would not believe how many times the word was used in our house that day :D :D :D

[luthien82]

Ahahahahaha!!! All hail the flaming chicken!!! *snorts*

[annafugazzi.livejournal.com]

That would so be my battle cry if I ever commanded anybody. I suppose it's a good thing I have no military ambitions whatsoever ;)

[strssna.livejournal.com]

Fenex looks nice, not at all like a chicken. Maybe Framer Guy thought that in your family, you all have a medical condition that keeps you addicted to chicken food so badly that you even need to have it near while sleeping and not being able to consume any, hopefully giving you chicken dreams? Luckily the guy is good with his hands and has a job at framing store, I don't think rocket science would've been his cup of tea.

[annafugazzi.livejournal.com]

Maybe Framer Guy thought that in your family, you all have a medical condition that keeps you addicted to chicken food so badly that you even need to have it near while sleeping and not being able to consume any, hopefully giving you chicken dreams?
::snort-laughs::

::looks embarrassed about the snort-laugh::

[naatz.livejournal.com]

Somebody just failed his spelling test!

|Meduza|

[annafugazzi.livejournal.com]

...and gets the Fail stamp of Faildom :D :D

[grey-hunter.livejournal.com]

*snort* Next time, try some Vulcan greeting, see if he gives himself away. ;) Hm. Flaming Chicken might be a Klingon mythological figure, now that I think about it... or just something very stupid (and loud!) from the internetz. ^________^

[annafugazzi.livejournal.com]

LOL!!!

Oh, god, must show to kids!!

::scurries off::

[drgaellon]

The wonders of a classical education...

ETA: Pathetic clerk is pathetic.