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OK, here's a tale from yesterday; was talking about this with my dad the other day, so figured I'd post it for laughs and also to find out if anyone else has pulled this rather amusing jape. XD
This stems from my years in the garden centre. I worked in Pets, but sometimes I was in the front of the shop for various reasons (taking back the tray with coffee cups; waiting for a delivery; needing to speak to someone working on the front tills etc) and if the phone rang, I'd sometimes answer it.
Now, a bit of background. There were several phones in the garden centre; the main phone was on a pillar at the front of the store, and each major section had one. They were all connected, and were internal phones unless you keyed in a special code. We had to put this into action after customers abused our good nature in letting them use the phones to call for lifts; ie, someone saying they were just going to call a taxi, then calling Auntie Marge and chatting for hours. If you took a call on the main phone, you could then put the call thru to any phone in the store; each phone had its own number, and the putting thru bit was very easy to do.
Now comes the fun bit. If I answered the phone, and the caller asked to be put thru to Pets, I'd trill, "Just putting you thru!" before doing so, then run like the wind to Pets where I'd pick the phone up. Sometimes, the caller wouldn't twig that they'd just spoken to me, which was funny in itself, but other times I'd get a puzzled, "Didn't I just speak to you?" which made the prank worthwhile. No, this wasn't done for meanness, just to brighten up the day a little.
Has anyone else done anything similiar or the same as this?
This stems from my years in the garden centre. I worked in Pets, but sometimes I was in the front of the shop for various reasons (taking back the tray with coffee cups; waiting for a delivery; needing to speak to someone working on the front tills etc) and if the phone rang, I'd sometimes answer it.
Now, a bit of background. There were several phones in the garden centre; the main phone was on a pillar at the front of the store, and each major section had one. They were all connected, and were internal phones unless you keyed in a special code. We had to put this into action after customers abused our good nature in letting them use the phones to call for lifts; ie, someone saying they were just going to call a taxi, then calling Auntie Marge and chatting for hours. If you took a call on the main phone, you could then put the call thru to any phone in the store; each phone had its own number, and the putting thru bit was very easy to do.
Now comes the fun bit. If I answered the phone, and the caller asked to be put thru to Pets, I'd trill, "Just putting you thru!" before doing so, then run like the wind to Pets where I'd pick the phone up. Sometimes, the caller wouldn't twig that they'd just spoken to me, which was funny in itself, but other times I'd get a puzzled, "Didn't I just speak to you?" which made the prank worthwhile. No, this wasn't done for meanness, just to brighten up the day a little.
Has anyone else done anything similiar or the same as this?
It would have been funny to see you run over a little old lady to reach the phone. 
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