Watlow/WaddleO

[fireheart]

A short brain burp, don't know if I didn't hear correctly or the customer spoke way too fast for me.

Customer: Excuse me, do you have a wadlow?
Me: Umm...I'll just check with the service desk...
Customer: Oh you know, Wadlow! Wadlow! Do you have a <company> liquor?
Me (finally processing): Oh, Bottle-O! No, we don't. Nearest one is <insert store here>

Customer leaves.

Me:

I would've told her that there was a liquor store owned by the company a bit closer than the one I described, but chances are, she wouldn't have worked out it was owned by us.

There's also one just up the road from us that's not owned by the company. (a drive-through one.)

Some of the larger stores DO have a liquor site, we don't. Some hotels also do have a drive-through bottle-o. (in Australia, some drive-through liquor stores are known as Bottle-os)

[Ironclad Alibi]

That reminded me of time many years ago when a panhandler asked for a dime to buy a bureau. I was thoroughly confused until I realized he want a beer-o. He didn't get the dime.

[Flying Grype]

That reminded me of time many years ago when a panhandler asked for a dime to buy a bureau. I was thoroughly confused until I realized he want a beer-o. He didn't get the dime.

Not a biro, then?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballpoint_pen

[TelephoneAngel]

Customer on phone tells me he cannot pick up his authorisation money at a certain time as he is ""going to the campus" I asked "oh, are you a student?" (I was going to follow it up, if he was, with somewhere more convenient for him to go, nearer to the campus)

customer started shouting, turns out he thought I asked him if he was stupid!

As if..........but I wish I had have done.

[Magpie]

Customer on phone tells me he cannot pick up his authorisation money at a certain time as he is ""going to the campus" I asked "oh, are you a student?" (I was going to follow it up, if he was, with somewhere more convenient for him to go, nearer to the campus)

customer started shouting, turns out he thought I asked him if he was stupid!

Which is you thinking he is stupid - him being a student, or needing to ask/being surprised that he is one? (Neither one makes the least bit of sense to me).

[Imogene]

Which is you thinking he is stupid - him being a student, or needing to ask/being surprised that he is one? (Neither one makes the least bit of sense to me).

"Are you-a stu-pid?"