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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Pox on you for an RAC call-centre drone.I once had the misfortune to crash my motorcycle by riding over a diesel spill, and encounter a most annoying misunderstanding when trying to get the RAC out to assist. The telephone conversation went on for a few minutes, but the gist of it was:
Me: Please send a trailer to recover my bike, because I have crashed it.
Them: What's wrong with it?
Me: I've crashed it and it needs to be towed away.
Them: Is it rideable?
Me: No, I slipped on a diesel spill and sent it down the road. It's knackered.
Them: What's wrong with it?
Me: The handlebars are twisted, the radiator smashed and leaking and the gear lever broken off. Amongst other damage.
Them: We'll send someone out to look at it.
Me: Just send a trailer - the damage can't be fixed at the roadside.
Them: OK. Where are you.
Me: On the Axx, N miles outside such-and-such a city, outside $PUB.
An hour later (and it was raining) the repairman turned up without any trailer. He had not been told the road, only a pub name, and managed to guess where it was. He expressed great surprise at the state of the bike as he'd been told that the only problem with it was that it was leaking petrol. He went back to base for his trailer and took me home, and on the way back the bastards at RAC control 'phoned him up to complain that he was taking too long to fix my problem.
(, Tue 11 Oct 2005, 19:46, Reply)
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