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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A couple more from when I worked in sales...I answered the phone once, and a polite young lady asked to speak to my boss. Upon asking who was calling, I was told it was Tate and Lyle.
Ah, the sugar people, I remember thinking, and then wondering why my boss was so surprised that they'd called him.
That's because it was in fact Total Oil calling...
Second one:
I was talking to a potential new customer on the phone, he'd just placed a small order and I was trying to get him to open an account:
Me: "Right, great. Shall I pop some stuff in the post to you then, tell you more about what we do?" (This was pre-email)
Him: Oh no, you need to send that to my boss, Dick Stiff.
Me (Desperately trying not to guffaw down the phone at him, and voice going all wobbly because of it): Ahhhhh, oh. Right, okay, I'll do that then. So what's your address?
Him: [recites address]
Me (still with a wobbly voice): Oooookay... then. And it's to your boss. What was his name again?
Him: Dick Smith.
At that point I was so relieved I exploded *
* - not strictly true
(, Mon 10 Oct 2005, 19:31, Reply)
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