Two Crayons Short a Box....

[Myra]

I figured I'd post this here, since this lady wasn't one of our customers, but just a bit nutty nonetheless. If this is the wrong forum, the bosses will move it!

Anywho, a bit ago, the phone rang. Being that I nailed my eye with a poster while trying to put up new collateral, I was reapplying makeup and recovering, so the Co-Worker, P, answered the phone. The lady on the other end, we'll call Crazy. Well, Crazy at first didn't hear him, and after a few "hellos?" she finally heard him and it begins.

First she said "Well, it's a long story so I'll just tell you." Then she launches into this long tale about how she's getting a divorce, and her soon-to-be-ex husband has been breaking into her house only nobody believes her, and to top it off, today she comes home and there's a black mark on her TV. "I have no idea what to do about it. It won't go away." She finishes. She pauses.

P finally says "I'm sorry ma'am, I don't know what to do about it either. We're - "
Crazy: "You don't?" Yes, it was PANIC in her voice.
P: "No I don't ma'am, we fix cell phones here."
Crazy: "Well I have a cell phone!"
After a moment of silence, P says: "That won't help much with your TV ma'am. We don't know how to fix those."
Crazy: "Ooooh...who do I need to call? Best Buy?"
P: "I don't know if they'll fix it, but they might know of someone who would."
Crazy: "Oh okay...I'll just try best buy then...oh there's a man in my yard...I think he's a meter reader...he'd better be a meter reader..."
P: "..."
Crazy: "Thank you!" She hangs up.

It wasn't sucky or rude as much as it was...odd.

[Broomjockey]

I enjoy talking with crazy people. They make a nice change from SCs, as I find most are plesant, if a bit hard to follow. I'm not talking about people with full-blown paranoid-schtizophrenia or anything, I'm talking about people who's view of the world is tilted about 90 degrees from the "norm". Plus there's the hours of entertainment afterwards when you attempt to figure out their thought process.