*sigh*

[Jacen]

M: "Hello, <Company unrelated to hotels>. How may I help you?"
C: "Yeah I left my jacket in room ##... It's worth a lot-"


Sadly I've gotten quite a few related calls. Hotels. Our number is nothing like the local pubs or hotels or whatever...

Another one I just remembered. (Get a few from time to time. Meh, I need a vacation.)

M" Hello. <Company> Web services (this is important in a sec). How may I help you?"
C: "Web services? Are you a spider breeder? I just want to know if my laptops (don't actually remember what, was expensive sounding through) been handed in? I left it in room-"

Nope. Not spiders.

[Imogene]

Do you not have your rooms numbered? If not, what's wrong with you? Think you're too good for three, or forty...?

[smileyeagle1021]

I only have one question, what the flip did that guy mean by "are you a spider breeder"... i've never ever heard that expression before.

[gunsage]

Seeing that spider breeder comment reminded me of a prank of sorts that one of my former supervisors when I was working tier 2 did at a previous job he had worked (whew, I apologize for the long explanation)...

Awesome Supervisor:
Confused Customer:

AS: "Thank you for calling X Tech Support and Hamster Grooming Service."
CC: "...What?"
AS: "Thank you for calling X Tech Support and Hamster Grooming Service. Do you have a hamster that needs grooming?"
CC: "Err, no no! I'm actually having trouble getting online."
AS: "Very good, sir."

[BookstoreEscapee]

I only have one question, what the flip did that guy mean by "are you a spider breeder"... i've never ever heard that expression before.

Web services...

Hey, the spider that was hanging out next to my front door last week looked like he could have used some help with his web. He had a pretty impressive standard web going, and then he took it down and replaced it with a practically invisible hammock-looking thing...

Oddly enough, now that Halloween's over, he's gone. Guess it was time to move on!

[Jacen]

Is there a such thing as a spider breeder?

[Broomjockey]

Gotta be spider breeders. Anything that people keep as pets, someone's gotta breed them. Because I really can't see pet stores tracking it down in the wild.

[Jacen]

People keep spiders as pets...?

[GingerBiscuit]

Yes. Tarantulas are especially popular among teenage boys who want to impress their friends with how 'ard they are, and maybe get a girl into their bedroom.

And serious people who really like 8-legged alien monsters.

/arachnophobe.

[Becks]

AS: "Thank you for calling X Tech Support and Hamster Grooming Service."
CC: "...What?"
AS: "Thank you for calling X Tech Support and Hamster Grooming Service. Do you have a hamster that needs grooming?"
CC: "Err, no no! I'm actually having trouble getting online."
AS: "Very good, sir."

I wish I could get away with doing something like that at work!!!

[BookstoreEscapee]

Yes. Tarantulas are especially popular among teenage boys who want to impress their friends with how 'ard they are, and maybe get a girl into their bedroom.

And serious people who really like 8-legged alien monsters.

/arachnophobe.

That wouldn't impress me...I'd run screaming!

My (now) ex and I were in this little pet store once to see if they had puppies (they had 3, cute little furballs, reminded me of little kids in feetie pajamas) and I was looking at the hamsters and gerbils they had along one wall. Ex comes up behind me and says "don't look up"...so of course I look up and on a shelf right above my head are several tarantulas. That was when I went to look at the bunnies. <shudder>

http://www.spiderbreeders.com/

[Naaman]

Web services...

Hey, the spider that was hanging out next to my front door last week looked like he could have used some help with his web. He had a pretty impressive standard web going, and then he took it down and replaced it with a practically invisible hammock-looking thing...

Maybe he was going for Web 2.0

*runs and hides to the dark, geeky corner*

[Imogene]

are you a spider breeder

And, all I could think about when I saw that phrase was a series of hentai with Mary Jane, Peter Parker, and Gwen Stacie, where Mary and Gwen are complaining about Peter's extremely mini me.