The French seem to have at least as many words for "receipt".
Spellcheck, predictive text and its quirky sibling "speech to text" make it pretty much impossible to remember how to spell words like "Receipt," "Pneumonia," and, ironically, "Misspell" (that second "s" just always looks weird).
The gift-giver says, "Oh, that's just the receipt," words that are received rapturously by the bride-to-be, and the other guests, relieved that she will be able to exchange the horrible gift.
7. -Last month, I linked to a story about Toni Christina Jenkins, a Red Lobster waitress in Franklin, Tennessee, who was stiffed on her tip, and got called the N-word on the receipt for her trouble.
- Toni Jenkins, the Red Lobster waitress who claimed a customer wrote the N-word on their receipt and gave her no tip may have some explaining to do now that a couple of handwriting experts are saying that the racial slur could not have been written by the same person who wrote "none" on the tip line.
Jenkins received $10,749 from an online fundraising organisation called Tips for Toni, but the customer, 20-year-old Devin Barnes, denied he wrote the offending word on the receipt – and now, a handwriting analyst hired by Devin's attorney and pastor is saying that the slur was written by somebody else.
When the bill arrived Dracula wrote and underlined the words "RUDE SKANK" on the receipt, and did not tip, and did review Breakfast Club unfavorably on Yelp before bedding down for a thousand-year slumber.
The announcement came after receipt of word that the Soviet command had turned down a protest delivered earlier today in Berlin.
Poonsuk Poonsukcharoen, a lawyer advising Ms. Patnaree, said Ms. Patnaree had sent only a one-word reply, "Ja," acknowledging receipt of the Facebook message, similar to saying "Yeah," but had not expressed agreement with it or commented on its content.
An Indian restaurant in west London has apologised to a customer for marking his receipt with the words "white ppl" after he requested a mild curry.
