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This one's a bit politically motivated.... or should I say anti politically motivated?
Here's one that pokes fun of the mutilation of our language by outsiders:
and here's one that's just completely unique!
Here's one of my FAVORITE shopping sites.
(hmmmm.... I might be breaking a rule or two by posting that....)
Hotel | Johannesburg, South Africa
(The phone rings in reception and I answer. Note that we’re a hotel in South Africa.)
Caller: “Please give directions to your hotel.”
Me: “Certainly, sir. From which direction will you be coming?”
Caller: “Germany.”
Tech Support | Texas, USA
(I am in my office when a user comes running to my door.)
User: “Help! Help! Help!”
Me: “What’s wrong?”
User: “Yahoo took over my Firefox!”
Me: “Wait. What? Yahoo did what?”
User: “Yahoo. It took over my Firefox! Come look!”
(We go to her desk and I sit down and launch her Firefox browser.)
User: “See! No more Firefox! It’s Yahoo.”
Me: “You still have Firefox. You just accidentally made Yahoo your homepage.”
User: “Please, just fix it!”
Restaurant | London, UK
(The restaurant I work in offers discount vouchers when customers subscribe in the website. In this case, the voucher was 2 courses for 10. After receiving her bill, a lady comes to me and starts arguing.)
Customer: “Why is my discount £3 when the voucher is for £10?”
Me: “Ma’am, the voucher does not give you £10 off your bill. It gives you the two courses for £10.”
Customer: “No, no! The voucher says £10!”
(After explaining the promotion for nearly 10 minutes, the manager joins in to help. Finally, the customer’s friend realizes the point of the promo and explains it.)
Customer: “Oh! I see now.”
Customer’s 8 year-old son: “Mooooom, it’s time for someone to apologiiiize!”
Camera shop | Canada
Customer: “Excuse me, miss. How many megapickles does this camera have?”
Me: “You mean megapixels? This one has 12.1.”
Customer: “No, I mean megapickles. How many does this one have?”
Me: “Uh… none?”
Customer: “Oh. Well, then! What good is it?”
Tech Support | Liverpool, UK
(Back when they were common technology, we sent out a software update on four floppy disks.)
Customer: “The computer says it’s unable to read disk two.”
Me: “Can we start the installation again just to check it is the disk that is the problem, please? Put the disk in the drive and type ‘a:update’. Then, press enter.
Customer: “Okay. It says it’s unable to read disk one now.”
Me: “I’m sorry. Did you try that with disk one or two?”
Customer: “Both.”
Me: “No, sorry. Just then, not earlier. Was the disk in the drive disk one, or two?”
Customer: “Both. Both disks are in the drive. Why? Was I supposed to take the first one out before putting the second one in? It didn’t say to do so, just to insert disk 2.”
Me: “You’ve got two disks in the drive at the same time? That must’ve been difficult to manage.”
Customer: “Not when you hit the second one with an encyclopedia.”