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Murphy's Law of Customer-Assistance

"You can stroll a store's aisles till Doomsday and never spot da item you want, but then, just as soon as you interrupt a staffperson to ask for help in locating said desirable, THAT'S when you will notice your sought-after item right off!"
While stocking up on food at a Super Walmart, I was looking for larger packages of Armour Vienna sausage so that I could save a few cents per can, but although I had thoroughly searched the surrounding areas on the shelves, I still hadn't found anything bigger than the small six-packs, so I finally asked a nearby employee if there were any of the larger packages in stock, possibly in the back room. Well, just as we were both walking back to the area of the aisle where I'd been looking, THAT'S when I finally spied the 12-packs that were sitting on the very top shelf! Guess that was a classic case of Murphy's Law of Customer-Assistance... ah, well, again, the 12-packs were indeed sitting very high up, so at least that was a plausible excuse for my not having seen them before, especially since the store usually doesn't even expect its customers to notice stuff that's placed 'way up there, anyway; that "lofty" location is merely where they store extra merchandise for replenishing the lower-down shelves when the stock there starts to run low.
by QuacksO May 14, 2019
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if you need to ask someone to do you a favor today then come right out with it and don’t worry that they might refuse. Chances are they have been hoping you will call on them to assist you and will help out with no questions asked
if you need to ask someone to do you a favor today then come right out with it and don’t worry that they might refuse. Chances are they have been hoping you will call on them to assist you and will help out with no questions asked
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Assistants

1. Plural of assistant.

2. In the context of AI, a prompt is made to assist developers or scripters where they are made to change a few words for a different context for comedy, variety, or both.
1. My assistants helped me with my work.

2. I created assistants to convert words with e to words without e but still make sense.
by Pixel_Representation December 2, 2023
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assist job

The Assist Job, known as an "assist" or an "AJ"; is conciliatory gesture performed by placing ones hand, or a finger at a minimum, on the hand, wrist, or forearm of another individual who is actively masturbating. It is performed by someone who feels they may owe a sexual favor to someone after receiving an expensive dinner or gift.
She definitely was not interested in him, but she gave him an Assist Job because she felt guilty about the theater tickets he bought.
by Mark and Suz March 20, 2017
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Aim Assist

An Excuse PC Players Use To Say Why They Died When They Have Ten Fingers While Console Players Have 4, 240+ FPS And Scripts That Allow Them To Do Things You Would Not Normally Be Able To Do
Oh Man I Hate Aim Assist, It Needs To Be Removed
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Assisted docking

When you dock with another man, who happens to be a cripple. Requiring you to hold both your own and the other guy's danger noodle in order to touch tips
Connor got with a paraplegic guy and had to perform assisted docking when they touched tips
by Fallen Hussar February 21, 2023
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