RE: OT: How to waste and hour of your life
- From: "Thomas W Shinder" <tshinder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 13:35:03 -0600
Try it again, but ask for a croquet set.
It's clear that you're dealing with post- 1980 California public high
school graduates.
You'd be better off asking them where you can find the "how to put a
condom on a cucumber set".
Thomas W Shinder, M.D.
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From: Thor (Hammer of God) [mailto:thor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 1:28 PM
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Subject: [isalist] OT: How to waste and hour of your life
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If you have nothing better to do, and would like to completely waste an
hour
of your life, then call up "Toys R' Us" and ask them to check stock on a
badminton kit.
Them: "Toys R' Us, can you hold?"
Me: "Sure."
I hold, and hold, and hold. Bad music, too.
Them: "Toys R' Us, can you hold?"
Me: "Again?"
Them: "What?"
Me: "Nothing. Sure, I'll hold."
I hold, and hold, and hold.
Them: "Thanks for holding, can I help you?"
Me: "Yes, before I drive all the way out there, I wanted to make sure
you
had a Badminton Game Kit in stock."
Them: "A what?"
Me: "You know- 'Badminton.' The game. You've got a net and you hit
the
little birdie thing back and forth with a racquet."
Them: "Oh. Hold please."
I hold, and hold, and hold.
She finally picks back up.
Them: "This is for your bath?"
Me: "Bath? I didn't plan to use it in the bath, but I must say, it has
possibilites."
Them: "What?"
Me: "No bath-- B A D M I N T O N. It's a GAME. With a net. A birdie.
Racquets. You hit the little birdie back and forth to each other over
the
net. You play it outside. I want to buy the whole kit."
Them: "Oh, that. Hold please. I'll check in the computer."
I hold, and hold, and hold. More bad music.
New guy picks up.
Them: "Toys R' Us, can I help you?"
Me: "Someone is checking on an item for me already."
Them: "Oh, I'm helping you now."
Me: "Oh, good. I'm looking for a badminton kit. You know, the game.
It's
kind of like tennis, only smaller. I need the net, the birdie, and 4
racquets."
Them: "I'll go check. Please hold."
I hold, and hold, and hold.
New guy comes back.
Them: "Sorry, we don't carry tennis nets. You need a sporting goods
store."
Me: "It's not a tennis net. It' a badminton kit. The kit. The whole
kit.
I'm looking at one on your web site through Amazon right now."
Them: "Oh, that. Yeah, yeah... Hold on, I'll go check."
I hold, and hold, and hold.
Original girl gets back on the phone.
Them: "Sorry, we don't have your item."
Me: "But the other guy was checking on it. Are you sure?"
Them: "Yes."
Me: "Just to make sure... What item was he checking for?"
Them: "The item for your bath. We don't have it."
Me: "Yes, of course, the bath. Well at least you've given me an
interesting
idea."
Them: "What?"
Me: "Nothing. Thanks for looking."
Sometimes I wonder why I bother.
t
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"I don't want their respect, I want their obedience."
Dr. Thomas W. Shinder, M.D.
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