MisunderstoodMy other half rang a courier today to get a disc sent over to a client. The courier company asked what it was she was sending. "A computer disc", she said.
Half an hour later, 3 blokes in a van turned up. They looked a little disappointed to be handed a floppy disc: they were all prepared to shift a computer desk across London.
Have you been utterly misunderstood recently?
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chthonic, Thu 6 Oct 2005, 23:06)
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Working in a call centre the other day...selling Readers Digest subscriptions and trying to peddle special offers to deaf and stupid old people...
part of one attempt at a conversation goes something like this:
me: can i take your phone number please?
old biddy: (rattles off number, less area code)
me: and what's the area code there?
biddy: (gives me 4-digit postcode)
me: no, i mean the area code for the phone number.
biddy: oh, i don't know what that would be.
me: well, where are you calling from?
biddy: i'm calling from home.
at which point i'm starting to find it very hard to keep a straight face...
(, Thu 6 Oct 2005, 23:34, Reply)
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