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[apocalypsos]

Did I tell you I'd talk to stupid people today, or what?

Speaking with a receiver who wanted to come pick her package up:

Her: Can I come pick my package up?
Me: Sure. Right now, it's located at our office in Alexandria.
Her: Oh, that's too far away. Can't I come pick it up at another location now?

*headwall*

Apparently, I can magically teleport packages across great distances. Who knew?

Comments

[florahart]

*is flabbergasted*

Dunno why I'm surprised; I have worked in a public-service sort of job for nearly twenty years now, and I've heard all manner of stupid, but dude. Did you say, "Do you have any children? No? Okay, well, don't." ?

Here is one of my favorites:

Customer wants a backfile newspaper. There's a request form, to put your name, the paper you want, the date, that sort of thing. It says:

Name_____________________
Title of Paper_______________________
Date(s)_____________

...

Customer fills in name and date and then stands there, chewing on eraser.

"Can I help you?"

"I don't know what to put here."

"Under title of paper?"

"Right."

"Um. Well." *contemplation on my part, as this seems to be in fairly small words and all* "Okay. The paper you want? The title of it? Write that."

"Ohhhhhhhhhh! I thought you wanted the title of the paper I'm going to write tonight after I read the paper for research!"

[illmantrim.livejournal.com]

oh boy! more tales of the dim and the broken minded... oy!

[robyn-ma.livejournal.com]

you can?? cool!!!

[cyprinella]

Of superpowers to have, that one's not bad.

Reminds me of working at B&N and a kid sends their parent for a book they need RIGHT NOW and Arlington was just too far to drive and why don't we have this book and well fine, I'm just goign to Borders. *flounce off in a huff*

Ahem.