Did she just cuss me in the Queens English?

[Hon'ya-chan]

I was helping this customer on the phone, and she had to make the whole deal a full on memoir.

She was trying to find this book, and she had no luck with the competitors or online. So she tried us. And guess who got that call?

Anyway, after putting her on hold for a few minutes after she spent 5 minutes (Yes, I timed it) chatting about her neverending quest to find said book, I pick the phone backup again, and tell her that I can't find the book.

SC: "The book title is (Forgot title...) X, X, X, X, T as in TWIT...."

Yes, she had to include "twit" in her spelling. Of all the T words to use.....and the way she said it, it implied that she was calling me a twit. Oh well, on hold for another couple of minutes....managed to find the book, and got her info. Tell co-irkers, go on with my life.

[marasbaras]

At that point, I would've failed to find the book for her no matter how hard I searched.

[donruss]

Methinks you are reading too much into this.

[Cyphr]

geez if she spent that long telling you about her quest to find the book i have one quote for you

"Me thinks the lady doth protest too much."

protest meant toast back then (this is from Hamlet during a scene just after the queen gives hamlet a toast)

[GingerBiscuit]

Meh. Probably just the first 'T' word she could think of. I tend to do similar.
'B as in Bitemark, L as in Lion, A as in Arrogant...'
If she'd been shouting and ranting and CALLING you a twit, yeah.

Nethertheless, she sounds irritating.

[Tria]

geez if she spent that long telling you about her quest to find the book i have one quote for you

"Me thinks the lady doth protest too much."

protest meant toast back then (this is from Hamlet during a scene just after the queen gives hamlet a toast)

SO in otherwords... The lady needs to cut down on the booze?

[Hon'ya-chan]

SO in otherwords... The lady needs to cut down on the booze?

More like prescribed some different meds. I mean seriously, I don't want to know why you want the book (either to read or have some freaky sexual relations with it), just spit out the Title, Author, or even the Publisher.

[icmedia]

Did she just cuss me in the Queens English?

Only in as much as you consider the words, "idiot" or "fool" cussing. Now, if she called you a dinge queen, said something about your tadger, or told you to naff off then maybe...

[edible_hat]

A for horses, B for mutton, C for yourself, D for kate, E for brick, F for vessence, G for police, H be for beauty, I for tower, J for orange...

(darn I used to know the entire alphabet like that, I can't remember what K is)

[Imogene]

A for horses

Hwah? Huh?
How is A for horses?

I had a mother and her son come through my line yesterday, and, if I remember correctly, she accidentally hit her son with one of the scrapbooks she was buying. Kid starts bawling (as expected, as it's apparently "Send your screamy kids to Juwl" day, wish someone had told me.) Kid bawls, but only through the end of the transaction, then suddenly, he stops entirely, and asks his mom something (forget what). Mom turns back to me, and I say, "Truly, the slings and arrows of childhood are far less disastrous than I remember them being, apparently," I don't even know why I said it. Mom looked at me funny, and I explained to her what I meant.

[Cyanocobalamin]

How is A for horses?

It took me a minute to get it..... A sounds somewhat like "Hay." Hay for horses. And then it goes "beef or mutton", etc.

[Becks]

At least it was "twit" and not "tw*t"**.

**fill in a different vowel.

[edible_hat]

It took me a minute to get it..... A sounds somewhat like "Hay." Hay for horses. And then it goes "beef or mutton", etc.

yep! See for miles, defacate, heave a brick, effervessence, chief of police...