Weird Questions

[BordersWonderTwin2]

I can't decide if the parents of little Drizzt are awesome or terrible for naming their child that. Both?

[Golden Phoenix]

Power Corp had a very lengthy IVR ( for accounts, 2 to pay your bill etc)

CW: Thank you for caling Power Corp Collections, can I take your account number?
Caller: Uh, Yeah, is this the Rape crisis line?
CW: ???

[Teefies2]

Had a customer last night who wanted a certain kind of cigarettes. She wanted a carton (10 packs). We didn't have a carton, but I offered to give her 10 packs for the carton price. Oh YES! she wanted this.

I then pulled all the packs we had of that kind of cigarette, and unfortunately, we only had 8. So I told her there were only 8. Her response? "Well I still want the carton price!"

Wait, what??? You want to pay the price of 10 packs when you only get 8??? :::brain goes xplodey:::

[DGoddessChardonnay]

How old was this gentleman? Some really old family run drugstores have some kind of a food/soda/ice cream counter.

Many, many years ago when I was just a baby DGoddess, my mom worked for a local drugstore called Ben Franklin Drugs. The store she worked at had a downstairs level, which had a cafeteria/sandwich shop and gift shop. Hugely popular, but around the early 70's, the owner sold the store to the Rite Aid chain.

Unfortunately, even though they had customers who shopped their for YEARS and not only shopped the main level but also were regulars at the cafeteria, the first thing the chain did was . . .

If you guessed took out the cafeteria and gift shop, you get a cookie.

And they couldn't quite figure out why that location lost a LOT of business, even after it was pointed out to them. . . .

[Jay 2K Winger]

And these are the very same people who claim to love their kids. It's shit like this that is the reason I never, EVER tell people my middle name. My last name pulled me enough grief in grade school, beginning with 'Cow-' as it does.

My middle name gave me some grief at school as well. When I mentioned it in class once, one of my tormentors deliberately misheard it as "Kibble" and he and his cronies started calling me "Kibbles and Bits."

-_-;; I do not have fond memories of middle school.

[El Pollo Guerrera]

A cw had a caller ask, "how do you make a woman come?" Cw misunderstood what the asshole was saying and responded, "did you call her name?"

Actually, that can be part of the equation.





Calling SOMEONE ELSE'S name will end in disaster.

As for questions I've fielded, I did get a "How long will it take me to use this pen?" once...

And I did have a customer ask "What's the difference between the white one and the black one?" in regards to two identical items, but that's more of a brain fart.

[dalesys]

"What toppings are good for a boy?"

A dash of girl!

[morwynskya]

Weirdest question?
Customer storms up to the counter, beet red in the face. "I've looked all through your phone book and there's not a single listing here for a naturopath!! ARGLEBARGLE!! RAWR!! WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY???"

My reply?
"I'm sorry, ma-am - this is a used bookstore. I'm not in charge of QwestDex, the Yellow Pages or CenturyLink. And I'm happy to say I can't help you."

[Merriweather]

Gender specific..toppings?

Warning, warning, warning..main processor failure...this is not a drill. Mytical's head will explode in 3...2....1

Pink & blue sprinkles?

Never noticed gender preferences, but age preferences, yeah. We have several of those Yogurt places where it's self serve, and you put your own toppings on, then pay by weight.

The youngest kids go for the gummy worms, older kids for candy bar related items. Most have dozens of toppings on variations of those for the kids. But one, which shares a building with a coffee place, is my favourite - they cater to the "older" crowd, flavours of frozen yogurt are a bit more sophisticated, gummty bears and such are minimally represented, with more fruit and exotic toppings, including a shelf full of things like chocolate dipped strawberries, teeny little mini-eclairs & tarts, etc.

[Kanalah]

Hubs has some friends he want to college with who named their son Aragorn. And this was back in the late 70's.

Apparently he goes by "Gorny" now.

I think the weirdest question I've been asked is at a show. A lady asked for one of my quilts in a different size and when I explained that it would be a special order she said "Don't you have any in the back?"

I pushed a quilt aside from the rack, showing the wall of the building we were in (I'm always up against a wall in this show) and said "What back?"

We still joke about the "Rectal bag of holding".

[Mike Taylor]

Lol, I have a good one, but I am pretty sure only those familiar with Dungeons and Dragons will get it. This question came from a couple who were regulars at the steakhouse I worked at. They were expecting a baby.

Father: Hey rainman, what do you think of the name Drizzt Do'Urden?

Rainman: Like the dark elf from DnD? Its a good name I guess, why?

Mother: Father and I were thinking of naming our baby Drizzt, cool huh?

Rainman: . . . . um. . . . well . . . . hey its your baby guys. . .

A few months later, I got to meet little Drizzt, yep, they went through with it

Man, that ranks pretty high on the list of Bad Baby Names. I'm a gamer myself and would never inflict a name like that on my kid.

[Mike Taylor]

When I was a certain age, I only liked the plain brown sprinkles rather than the rainbow sprinkles because I found the brown sprinkles more "manly."

As for weirdest questions, I guess the weirdest was when I was at CVS and I was asked where the deli counter was. He was shocked that our drugstore didn't have a deli.

How old was this gentleman? Some really old family run drugstores have some kind of a food/soda/ice cream counter.

Weirdest question I'd ever heard of from a customer at the Big Yellow Price Tag was "Where do you keep the cranberry juice?" I can only assume this elderly lady had confused us with the Costco at the other end of the property.

[mhkohne]

Sometimes I look at a person's name and wonder, what could they have done, apparently in the womb, to make their parents do THAT to them?! Have these folks never been to an elementary school? 3rd graders aren't that many rings up the social ladder from cannibals!

My wife is a teacher, so we were kind of careful about naming the kids sonthatnthey didn't take too much grief on that score.

[Argabarga]

And these are the very same people who claim to love their kids. It's shit like this that is the reason I never, EVER tell people my middle name. My last name pulled me enough grief in grade school, beginning with 'Cow-' as it does.

Sometimes I look at a person's name and wonder, what could they have done, apparently in the womb, to make their parents do THAT to them?! Have these folks never been to an elementary school? 3rd graders aren't that many rings up the social ladder from cannibals!

[mharbourgirl]

Lol, I have a good one, but I am pretty sure only those familiar with Dungeons and Dragons will get it. This question came from a couple who were regulars at the steakhouse I worked at. They were expecting a baby.

Father: Hey rainman, what do you think of the name Drizzt Do'Urden?

Rainman: Like the dark elf from DnD? Its a good name I guess, why?

Mother: Father and I were thinking of naming our baby Drizzt, cool huh?

Rainman: . . . . um. . . . well . . . . hey its your baby guys. . .

A few months later, I got to meet little Drizzt, yep, they went through with it

And these are the very same people who claim to love their kids. It's shit like this that is the reason I never, EVER tell people my middle name. My last name pulled me enough grief in grade school, beginning with 'Cow-' as it does.