All the stuff I’ve jotted down at work to record in my lj and then neglected…
One customer, when I told him to turn on his phone, said in a semi-protesting tone, “I tried to turn it on earlier, but it was off.”
I talked to someone named Wadsworth Kamaka, and somebody else named Vondell Wampler.
Somebody called the hourglass “the cursor,” somebody else a “waiting sign,” another a “sand dune,” somebody a “sand clock,” a guy with a British accent “a kind of a… sand thing for the minutes,” and someone “like, a stand thing.”
I can’t remember whether I already reported talking to somebody whose name was Robert Jordan. I wanted to make fun of him. His backup security question was “What is your favorite team?” and the answer he’d given was “The Wizards.”
I was trying desperately to help some incredibly stupid woman program her phone, and at one point I had told her maybe twelve times which button she needed to press next… one of these times she responded in a tone of enlightenment, “Oh, press it! I thought you pushed it!” I was like O_o;;;
A SAND DUNE. XD XD XD
Robert Jordan. ::snerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrk::
I think that lady meant that she thought you had been saying that you personally pushed that button. Not that there was a distinction between pushing and pressing.
No, she really meant that there was a distinction between pushing and pressing. She was using ‘you’ in the ‘one’ sense, e.g. “One presses the button; one does not push the button.” I had to laugh out loud at her. On mute, of course.
XD XD XD
Do a lot of other people besides you laugh out loud on mute?
*dies*
Customers are hilarious. I just had one who told me she lived in Arizona. So I asked her what city. She said, “Arizona.” And I was like, “Is that the city name, too?” And she was like, “No, it’s Phoenix.” So I guess she didn’t know what the city was the first time. On top of it all, she didn’t have a license, but she wanted to get insurance on a car she didn’t even own. It was classic, really. And then she acted surprised that she needed to have a license in order to buy car insurance.
My most recent weird customer names were Chinyere Duru and Juillet Bogert-Butler. Weirdness.
I love recording weird names XD
Da ha, Arizona, Arizona.