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Today, a customer asked me how long our 6-inch sandwich was. FML

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lfrider92 21

It's a food long of course

ItsAUnicorn 27

Wasn't it some foreigner? I don't know how much 1 inch is too, because we use centimeters here

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lfrider92 21

It's a food long of course

cakefete2 31

That's either a clever pun or an unfortunate typo.

lfrider92 21

Foot* damn auto correct

brand125 17

i read it as foot at first until #5 said something

JBChristian 47

Wouldn't find it a strange question as Subways 6 inchers really aren't 6 inches.

lfrider92 21

I read an article about a year ago that said subway was getting sued because their foot long was only 11 inches. I'm not sure if this is true or not, but it wouldn't surprise me

martin8337 36

Me, too.

EnderWolf1013 9

the foot at my subway is 9in

blazingshot147 19

@#40 aren't they like 5.4" inches? Then again it might vary by store to store.

Stazza11 27

They did indeed get sued, but they have since gone over their procedure for baking bread and apparently they are now up to standard... I highly doubt it though.

silassteel 2

Who knows? It's not like we have something exactly one foot long to measure one with.

liketenpandas 6

nah it couldn't vary, it's all corperate managed before it even gets to the stores, they just bake the dough.

cooltatgar 31

7" ... I guess?

Lacist 19

It's actually a sandwich long..

Demig0d6 14

You can measure that using my dick

gjikvtj 18

Please leave

ksks1234 33

56--if they did that, they would be about 4 inches short.

gjikvtj 18

64 - You're being too nice

ThatOneGuy719 16

#64 are you saying that because he's looks Asian?

Lacist 19

#108 sarcasm is hard to catch sadly.

Rallred32 20

#140, especially when it is executed poorly. Am I right?

Lacist 19

Pretty much :( I think the .. Ruined it

liketenpandas 6

dude demigod every comment you make is the most insulting and annoying comment you could possibly make. please either change your ways or suffer the wrath of the entire FML community...

ItsAUnicorn 27

Wasn't it some foreigner? I don't know how much 1 inch is too, because we use centimeters here

JayBunny 16

Comment moderated for rule-breaking.

He meant that a customer, asked how long their 6 inch sub was. When he already knew how long it was when he said so himself.

Thejackel79 9

Inches mean nothing to someone who is on the metric system so no the customer might not have known exactly how long it was.

ksks1234 33

22--If I went to anywhere besides the US, I would not be completely sure how big an approximately 15cm sub would be. I would obviously know it is 15 cm, but I would not be able to precisely visualize the size without the person showing me.

brand125 17

#22, what 3 means is the customer might not have known how long 6 inches visually looked like, alot of the world uses the metric system, so telling me something is x amount of inches could mean nothing to me if i dont know how long 1 inch looks like (edit other people said it first)..

tj4234 36

Even outside of the US it's quite common for places like subway to refer to their products as 6 inch subs, or foot long. Here in the uk we use cm instead of inches, but, still know what a 6 inch sub is.

littlekellilee 45

Canadians are pretty aware of what inches are. Our older generation still uses inches because they grew up with imperial.

leary96 15

@19 really, it's 2.54 cm in an inch. Where the hell did you get 15.

martin998877 12

6 inches is 15cm is what he meant. We're not worrying how long an inch is, but how long 6 inches are. Ie 15cm.

Daaaan 13

Its actually really not hard to convert inches to cm. 1 inch is approx. 2.5 cm. That should actually be common knowledge as inches are also used in metric countries quite often. (for example for TV screens or car wheels)

WellLookAtThat 6

2.54*6=15.24, so he was really pretty close.

xNephilim 19

I had some issues with that when I first moved to the US from Germany. I still have trouble visualizing lengths in inches, so now I visualize in terms of subway sandwiches. It's weird but it helps, haha.

liketenpandas 6

I personally don't have a problem with neither metric nor imperial, I just use imperial more often because it's the standard in the US, but that wouldn't mean I couldn't get by just as easily with cm or mm, I use plenty of metric measurements when i work on my car, since it's Japanese, and it helps to have that extra knowledge handy :)

C_Sizzle247 11

Did you say it was half of a foot long?

Enslaved 38

No big deal. Some people just need a visual. Example: Where I work, we have an 8 ounce steak. I could be a smart ass and tell them "Half a pound" duh! but people want me to show them using my hands how big it is? I tell them a deck of cards is about 3 ounce. That usually helps.

nirmalsundhar 11

it doesn't really help for people following metric system... cause they think in cms...it's better to show them visually....

PeartOfNeils 18

I often get questions like this. Most of them refer to what the difference between a 6 ounce and 8 ounce will be ounce-wise.

Shayaan 10

*facepalm*

cakefete2 31

Reminds of the joke where someone is so dumb they ask "quick, what's the number to 9-1-1?"

birdybirdchirp 18

the little rascals bro.

liketenpandas 6

Larry the cableguy though... or Chris Farley, they all mocked this joke

hisrose01 6

did you say "here's your sign"?

bigmillzy 3

Lol, if you ask how long a 6 inch sub is... Yooooou might be a redneck

ghostsoul21 12

I can just imagine your face..

Nickb55 16

Well they're usually smaller than the 6 inch subs I pay for anyways

lfrider92 21

I remember reading an article a year or so ago saying foot longs are actually 11 Inches, but who knows.

Wizardo 34

More than a butt load but less than a crap ton.