Misunderstandings…awkward and hilarious.
I’m thinking maybe I should just start a blog simply about the interactions I have with customers at my job. Seriously. People are so weird/rude/awkward/annoying/hilarious that they just make life…interesting.
First customer of the day today decides I must be flirting with him because I’m asking about his life because that’s MY JOB. After a semi-awkward silence at end of the transaction due to my finishing the conversation when he clearly didn’t want to leave, he proceeded to stay around our kiosk for the next hour or so until we were no longer busy. He then came back and told me that he wasn’t leaving for the middle-of-nowhere until tomorrow morning and asked if I was busy tonight…in front of my manager…and my other coworker. I felt bad for the guy and said I’d be closing and so I wouldn’t be off ‘til late hoping he’d get the hint and just go, to which he said, “OK, well I’ll come back next time I’m in town.”
I was so embarrassed for the guy that the only thing I could muster was an “…OK…”
No “Sorry, I have a boyfriend.”
No “I’m flattered but I’m not interested.”
Just “ok.”
Now the poor guy is going to come back in thinking there’s a chance all because I hate making nice guys feel bad. Sigh.
That was the awkward part of my day. The hilarious part of my day came with next memorable customer who didn’t know a darn thing about phones nor the definition of the word dingleberry. Allow me to explain.
A little dialogue:
Me: Hello, how are you doing today?
Customer: Good, l’m looking for a phone that’s better than the one I have.
Me: Ok, what kind of phone do you think you’d be interested in? Did you want one with internet available?
Customer: Yes, my daughter has a dingleberry, do you have any of those?
Me: A…I’m sorry, what?
Customer: A dingleberry. It’s a smartphone I think.
Me: Oh! A BLACKberry???
Customer: Yes, that’s the one.
The guy had no idea what he had just said. Or that he had just made my day because he’s never looked at Urban Dictionary.
