The number system is a great
policy that only
government clerks and very lucky
retail staff can still carry out due to
insane lineups of
snitty,
impatient people with
petty requests. On the wall, there is a
counter which
indicates which
customer is being
served and
clients take numbers from a
roll of
tickets to wait in
queue. If someone cannot wait their
turn, the friendly
customer service representative will then point to the tickets and say "
Please take a number."
In my own daily
events, there are many
occasions where I'd like to ask someone to
please take a number. Like when my
jackass neighbour knocks on my
door looking for
weed every
Sunday afternoon or when my super wants to
discuss the way his
tenants are frustrating him. If you've ever been called by a
telemarketer at
work, or if your
boss asks you to go get their
dry cleaning for them on your
lunch hour.
The
applications of this
phrase are
infinite, as everyone
encounters
bullshit that's unique to their own life. I'm sure at more than one
point in
time that you've wanted to
tell someone to
fuck off. This is just a
polite way to suggest it.