Closet Extremist

How to make yourself seem stupid.

As I'm walking through the store today, I was stopped by a man who asked to see a manager. The other employee who was walking with me, asked him what he needed before I got a chance to, so the customer said to him: " I'm trying to find out if there's a Notary Republic available." My cohort directed him to the back of the store to find a manager, while I bit my tongue in order to keep from laughing in his face, or generally saying something that would make him feel like an idot.

Dictionary.com says that a Notary is:
2. (Eng. & Am. Law) A public officer who attests or certifies deeds and other writings, or copies of them, usually under his official seal, to make them authentic, especially in foreign countries. His duties chiefly relate to instruments used in commercial transactions, such as protests of negotiable paper, ship's papers in cases of loss, damage, etc. He is generally called a notary public.

It also says that a Republic is:

1. A political order whose head of state is not a monarch and in modern times is usually a president.
2. A nation that has such a political order.

I'm starting to think that there's no such thing as a "Notary Republic". I hope someone corrects him on this. I couldn't, because I just know I'd have been a wiseass in the process. I guess good customer service can sometimes be defined as: knowing when to keep your gob shut.