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  • I Laughed in a Customer's Face

    Well, in his ear anyway.

    Background: We have some very special customers at my bookstore. One of them is N. N likes to call and order tons of books and asks us to hold magazines (they have to be in PRISTINE condition, because he's a COLLECTOR ) and then never picks them up, he calls and talks about the movies he's seen, asks us what movies we've seen and then doesn't stop talking long enough to hear an answer, asks the same question twelve times... He wastes tons of our time but buys just enough that we can't kick him out. He is polite enough but also speaks very condescendingly to the employees, which drives me crazy because N doesn't have a job and lives with his mother. I know this isn't a very good description but trust me, this guy is annoying as hell.

    So he calls up yesterday to ask about some books, one of which was about disorganization and how being disorganized is not necessarily a bad thing. Then he said, with all seriousness:

    "I am a genius and I am disorganized so maybe this book will help."

    I couldn't help it, I laughed derisively.

    The worst part? He heard over the phone and asked me why I laughed.

    I made some lame excuse about messy people usually not admitting they are messy, and he bought it.

    I felt kind if bad, but seriously.
    https://www.facebook.com/authorpatriciacorrell/

  • #2
    Dont worry, I think I would have laughed as well, and I dont think I would have been quick enough to come up with an excuse!

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    • #3
      Perhaps if more people laughed at him derisively and weren't in a position where they had to lie .. he might get a clue.
      "Always stand near the door." -- Doctor Who

      Kuya's Kitchen -- Cooking, Cooking Gadgets, and Food Related Blather from a Transplanted Foodie

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      • #4
        lol, how does that old saying go? "he who speaks does not know"

        nice recovery, I think we've all slipped up before and probably will again.
        "Ride the spiral to the end, it may just go where no one's been. Spiral out, keep going..." -Lateralus

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        • #5
          Indeed. Wouldn't consider it rude.. thinks like that can be almost a natural reflex if your dealing with interesting repeat customers.
          - Boochan

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          • #6
            Nice one! And accurate as well....

            But then - what he said seems to be accurate as well (not that it's an excuse).


            BTW - you're new avatar... are you referring to Maj. Carter dropping an open stargate connected to a black hole into a star - thus turning it nova and destroying the planet? (to match up with your tagline?)... (personally - I preferred your other avatar...)
            When I said "From my research", what I actually meant to say was "Made shit up" - from a thottbot thread

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            • #7
              I didn't even make the black hole connection, but it does fit! We have been watching a lot of Stargate in our house lately and my husband has a big crush on Carter, so the new avatar is kind of a joke. I also noticed a couple other people here have Teal'c (I know I spelled that wrong...) and O'Neill avatars, so I figure I'll fit right in. Now all we need is a Daniel Jackson avatar and CS will ahve the whole SG-1 team!
              https://www.facebook.com/authorpatriciacorrell/

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              • #8
                Quoth AnaKhouri View Post
                I didn't even make the black hole connection, but it does fit! We have been watching a lot of Stargate in our house lately and my husband has a big crush on Carter, so the new avatar is kind of a joke. I also noticed a couple other people here have Teal'c (I know I spelled that wrong...) and O'Neill avatars, so I figure I'll fit right in. Now all we need is a Daniel Jackson avatar and CS will ahve the whole SG-1 team!
                So... Jonas doesn't count then?? :P (TBH - I can't stand his accent! For an alien, he has an incredibly American accent!!!!! (more than the native Americans).)

                I'm just up to season 7 - borrowing from a friend at work.

                Oh - and what about Master Braytac? I think he deserves an icon.
                When I said "From my research", what I actually meant to say was "Made shit up" - from a thottbot thread

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                • #9
                  Never laughed in a customers face but once during a long haul shift selling flowers for VD (valentines day) I slammed down a coke too fast, opened my mouth to say something to a SC and ended up belching so long and hard that I'm sure I was giving Booger from "Revenge of the Nerds" some stiff competition in the belching stakes. Thankfully the customer laughed and didn't freak out.
                  "No, I will not poop a shopping cart out for you." - Irving Patrick Freleigh

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                  • #10
                    I'll get jackson if someone else gets mitchell jonas and the others

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                    • #11
                      We are watching season 3 (and I haven't seen all the episodes) so who is Jonas? Is he the guy that replaced Daniel Jackson for like half an episode after Daniel's wife died?

                      If Braytac gets an icon then General Hammond should have one too. I love that guy! Any takers??
                      https://www.facebook.com/authorpatriciacorrell/

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                      • #12
                        yea i think so i rember him but dont remember who he replaced.

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                        • #13
                          I laughed at a customer once

                          she ran a stop sign, and cut me off, so I hit her truck with my carts(life's a bitch aint it?) and she came over and started screaming at me *note the redneck accent* "WHY'D YOU HIT MY MUU FUCKIN TRUCK?!", and said to wipe off her truck(it was dirty, so the carts pushed around some of the caked on dirt) so I just laughed at her and said no

                          then I managed to not laugh until she drove away the time the person asked me where Wal Mart is while we were in the Wal Mart parking lot. seriously, here's a guy wearing a wal mart name badge, pushing carts that say "wal mart, always low prices, always" in front of a blue building, you can't be at Wal Mart, can you?

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                          • #14
                            Good Gawd, Man! Do you realize what you had done?!?

                            You had distrurbed the only thing holding her truck together!

                            And what she meant by wipe it off, was for you to put it back in it's place, so it could continue to do it's job!

                            Mike
                            Meow.........

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                            • #15
                              it was actually a decent truck... i think it might have been a Dodge Ram, post 2000

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