After tonight's episode of Lost, I have decided that it would be in my best interest to never watch it alone again. Tonight's episode kind of freaked me out, in that good-suspenseful-crazy-I-love-Lost sort of way.
Tomorrow is my last day of work before the trip to New Jersey. Excited, am I?. Nah...
Best work related incident today? A phone conversation between me and an old guy. I'm paraphrasing, but you'll get the gist of it.
Old Guy: I have this phone my daughter gave me and it's not like a normal phone because my wife has some disease so it has big numbers and does other cool things. I can't get it to work. Can you send someone over to hook it up for me?
Me: Um, no, sir. This is a library. We don't do that. Have you tried calling the phone company or the people who made the phone?
Old Guy: Yeah, they're no help. They're in Mississippi and I've called the Lighthouse for the Blind and they just tell me what to do. I really just need someone to come over here and hook it up. Can you send someone over?
Me: No, sir, we're a library. We don't do that.
Old Guy: I know you're a library! That's why I called. I need some help. Don't you have some sort of school program and you could send a student over to help me?
Me: No, we're a public library. We help people find information and books about things. We don't hook up phones.
Old Guy: Don't you have some sort of mechanic you can send over to hook up my phone?
Me: NO, SIR, WE DON'T DO THAT.
Old Guy: Well. You're a library. What do you do?
Me: WE ARE A LIBRARY, YES. WE HELP PEOPLE FIND INFORMATION. WE DO NOT HOOK UP PHONES.
Old Guy: I just need someone to come over and set up my phone! You can't help me? Y'all are worthless!
Me: No, sir, we're not.
And that's about how it ended. That was probably the weirdest phone call I've gotten at work. It was especially strange because he thought it was so odd that we couldn't send someone over. It was a lovely conversation.
This entry is closed to new comments. Sorry.
Posted by sandi at 09 December 2004 - 02:15
Lost was awesome tonight! Charlie didn't die! :)
Posted by sara j at 09 December 2004 - 03:18
Oh, criminy, I completely got freaked out by Lost tonight too. Especially when Jack would not quit pounding on the Hobbit's chest. I think he may be brainwashed now, though, which is too bad. But good, because that's even freakier. I'm trying to picture you having the above conversation and it really makes me smile.
Posted by adam at 09 December 2004 - 16:20
I thought the baby running through the woods last week was a lot freakier than this week's episode. And I thought Jack would kill Charlie if the poor guy wasn't already dead. They showed that Alias promo again, and I know you all you girls will agree, Sydney looked very hot.
Posted by Jeanette at 11 December 2004 - 17:46
Gah! All of you people are addicted to Lost? How did I miss this? I thought it was just Steve ... (must go fix my entry in my blog today)
Posted by Jeanette at 17 December 2004 - 08:39
I forgot, I wanted to share the weirdest phone call I ever got at work. Can I still do that? I actually have TWO weirdest ever phone calls. Is it too late to share?
Posted by lauren at 17 December 2004 - 14:00
Go ahead, share!
Posted by Jeanette at 19 December 2004 - 21:32
Okay. 1st weirdest phone call: So, me, at innocent 19 years old working in a law firm. Answer the phone, hearing a guy breathing weird. I'm like "Hello?" More weird breathing. Finally, in a man's voice ... "Yes ... can I have your underwear when you're done with them?" Me, ever so nice ... "Why?" He hung up. 2nd weirdest phone call, still at law firm. Answer the phone. Hear an old sounding guy, "Hello, you're Law offices of blah blah blah?" Me, "Yes ... can I help you?" Old man, "Yes, I'm reading the comics and the letters DEA are part of this comic strip ... what does DEA stand for?" Me, being all of 19 years old and never having heard of DEA said, "I'm sorry, I have no idea." Old man got all pissy because I didn't know. Stupid old man. HE should have known. Thank you for letting me share my stupid, weirdest ever phone calls.