She can't brain today, she has the dumb.

[ethereal-dusk.livejournal.com]

It's going to be a really long day when my first call starts with this--

"So, that's "k" as in "kilo"?" I asks.

"No, it's "k" as in "kat". She says.

""K" as in "kat"?" I asks her again.

"Yes, "k" as in "kat"." And she starts getting bent about me questioning her.

This person works for our government. I is worried now. I really are.

Comments

[lihan161051.livejournal.com]

Hmm .. I wonder which branch of the government she works for? Executive, maybe? :D

[ethereal-dusk.livejournal.com]

Luckily, I didn't ask her, it probably would have broken my brain even more. LOL

reminds me of...

[ebtb.livejournal.com]

Me: Stephen with a "ph" or a "v"?
Luser: With a "V"! I'm an AMERICAN!

um... ok...

Re: reminds me of...

[ethereal-dusk.livejournal.com]

Ya... wonder where that came from! LOL

Re: reminds me of...

[ateji.livejournal.com]

"...Congratulations?"

:P

[laptop-mechanic.livejournal.com]

I hear some of the oddest phonetic spellings imaginable when I'm on the phone with lenovo support.

[ethereal-dusk.livejournal.com]

What I really hate is when they just make them up as they go. "King Harry Food Bike Tarantula"... I'm like... huh?

I wonder where Lenovo is? The Phillipines, or India... that's IBM, isn't it?

[laptop-mechanic.livejournal.com]

The call center is Atlanta, actually.

[ethereal-dusk.livejournal.com]

LOL@myself. Not sure what I was thinking there...

[spooforbrains.livejournal.com]

I do that. Sorry. My customers tend to get a kick out of it.

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

C as in Czar, D as in Djibouti, eh I'm tired.

[xforge.livejournal.com]

Don't suppose Kat was her name?

It doesn't reduce the stupidity level any, even if it was.

[ethereal-dusk.livejournal.com]

Nope, Kat wasn't her name. It annoys me when people use their names like that, especially when they call from Hawaii. :)

[wibbble]

While spelling out the name of a repair centre to one mentally-challenged Londoner, I once got to end a call because of 'an' don' give me any o' dat 'kilo' shit no more!' after several failed attempts.

[hisamishness.livejournal.com]

One bonus of having had the military phonetic alphabet drilled into me brain... ;-)

[hisamishness.livejournal.com]

Not a problem for me. :-)

[tnjade.livejournal.com]

I get the morons who accuse me of being a coke dealer whenever I say "kilo". Sometimes, you just can't win.

[ethereal-dusk.livejournal.com]

I am all too happy to get those folks, because that is the same alphabet drilled into me brain as well. :)

[jon787.livejournal.com]

Tourist: Yes I'm sorry I can't say the letter 'B'

Bounder: C?

Tourist: Yes that's right. It's all due to a trauma I suffered when I was a sboolboy. I was attacked by a bat

Bounder: A cat?

Tourist: No a bat

Bounder: Can you say the letter 'K'

Tourist: Oh yes, Khaki, king, kettle, Kuwait, Keble Bollege Oxford

Bounder: Why don't you say the letter 'K' instead of the letter 'C'

Tourist: what you mean.....spell bolour with a K

Bounder: Yes

Tourist: Kolour. Oh that's very good, I never thought of that what a silly bunt

[bekscilla.livejournal.com]

I once said "T for Tom" and the user replied back with "was that C for Cat?" It still bugs me that he asked that :P

[canray.livejournal.com]

"C as in Crackhouse, which you just stumbled out of..."

[seosaimhthin.livejournal.com]

Phonetic stories. I worked in car insurance and had to take the vehicle registration on almost every call. Responses include

"STOP STOP STOP! I don't speak police-talk!"

"No, not J for Juliet. J for... hm. Jam."

Or me saying "R for Romeo?" and he replies "If you like. I prefer R for rabbit."

Or the angry heavy-accented guy who was saying either A, E or I. "I for Indigo?" I said. "No! I for I!" or maybe "I for eye!"