highlights of the day

[gremcint]

1. attempting to give an 88 year old man directions to the store over the phone for 10 minutes

2. Trying to explain to another old man that we actually carry an adapter to convert his vhs to dvd but it requires both a computer and a vcr, over the phone

3. A woman complaining that noone would help her and trying to guilt trip people into helping her. She first knocked on the window of the tech office, I think she thought he was a manager. Complaining they wouldn't help her at copy center, she mumbled a lot and I was with a customer but the gist of it from what I heard and what others told me was she bought business card paper from us and wanted copy center to print on it. Copy center has their own paper supply and cannot print on that especially with them using laser copiers not inkjet. We have a selfuse station with a computer that my Tech suggested but she kept trying to guilt trip about how she's an old woman and if she went around and spoke to every employee she would be sure they would have some excuse not to help her. She then turns to me who looking up ink for another customer, and says "I'm sure [my name] won't help me either" never once did she actually speak to me. I just told her I was with a customer already and went to help them.

Don't know the results of this really.

[MoonCat]

Sounds like another case of "I'm old and I don't want to have to learn anything new!"

[downforit2008]

Apparently, it was 'Old and Confused People' Day that day. Or does it happen to be EVERY day in this case?

[Food Lady]

I think Irv's customers wandered over to you.

[MoonCat]

Well, I had a woman on the phone the other day, long story, but during the conversation she said she was "very old." She didn't sound that old but who knows....

Then she tells me, "I'm 59!"

WTF DO YOU MEAN "OLD???"

I know 59 sounds old when you're in your 20's, but when you're as close as I am, it doesn't feel old at all. Plus she was using that as an excuse to not have anything to do with computers, which is also stupid as many seniors these days are into learning how to use them. She WAS an old fart, though...

[Jay 2K Winger]

Quoth MoonCat

Well, I had a woman on the phone the other day, long story, but during the conversation she said she was "very old." She didn't sound that old but who knows....

Then she tells me, "I'm 59!"

WTF DO YOU MEAN "OLD???"

I know 59 sounds old when you're in your 20's, but when you're as close as I am, it doesn't feel old at all. Plus she was using that as an excuse to not have anything to do with computers, which is also stupid as many seniors these days are into learning how to use them. She WAS an old fart, though...

Heh. I'm always of the belief that "old" is twenty years older than you currently are.

Let's face it, when you're 5 years old, 25 year olds are "ooooolllld!"

When you're 15, ditto for 35. Again when you're 25.

Hell, my diabetic grandfather, at 85, used to gripe about being in an assisted living facility, "with all those old people."

[ralerin]

Quoth MoonCat

Then she tells me, "I'm 59!"

WTF DO YOU MEAN "OLD???"

I know 59 sounds old when you're in your 20's, but when you're as close as I am, it doesn't feel old at all.

I'm in my early 20's. My parents are retirement age heading to 70's. 59 is young to me. Old is 85+.

But the age you feel old in has everything to do with what you believe.

[South Texan]

Quoth gremcint

She then turns to me who looking up ink for another customer, and says "I'm sure [my name] won't help me either"

"Well, ma'am, the customer is always right!"