FUN W/ BOB

that's a blog title waiting to happen

so today at work (Labor Day), i was discussing lunch with action jaxan when i was interrupted by a customer (rude customer; what were you thinking calling on a holiday?). wanting to finish the thought with jaxan, i asked the customer to please hold. not 15 seconds later, i picked up the phone and asked “how can i help you,” and this is the response i received:


“you all open today?”

um, no. just happened to be in the neighborhood, thought i’d open the building, turn on the phone system, and put you on hold, so that i could explain that i just happened to be in the neighborhood..... did you seriously just ask me that?

it’s times like those that you really wish it were perfectly acceptable to let people know how stupid they sound. jaxan had a moment like that as well, except over email.

a customer emailed him to complain that when she ordered her part online and it said 3-5 days shipping, and she assumed that was business days, that she thought she had waited too long and should thus give us an earful. except that, um, she had gotten her part. within 3-5 days. so really, what’s up with the 3-paragraph email trying to belittle us? instead try kindergarten, where people usually begin the long road to counting. by ones. on, ah, one hand. to, say, between 3-5. just saying. and actually, after a few attempts that were a little harsh, jaxan did tell her. kind of. only problem is she might still not get it. such is life with retards; if you tell them the truth bluntly, they get offended. if you allude to it, they don’t get it. whatever. though i must say, sort of makes me rethink the whole civil war thing; hell, let them have their own country. then we can tax their dumb asses the stupid tax.

any guesses on where she was from, by the way? pat on the back to anyone who said “the south” or some equivalent answer; bravo. and although it was a little easy, i’m finding it’s pretty hard to make the question difficult if that’s eventually the answer. oh well.

Peace.