CREEPY phone call...

[EmilyRose1982]

Ok, here goes...

I work at a coffee shop as a shift supervisor.

One afternoon, amidst an after-school rush, the phone rings. It's some random customer that I don't really know.

Here's a script of the phone conversation, as well as I can remember it.

Me: How can I help you?
SC: Yeah, are you busy?
Me: Uh, not really...
SC: Can you read me today's trivia question?
(We have a daily trivia question posted next to the Coffee of the Day board. Correct answer = 10cents off your order)
Me: Um, sure. "What V-word is the term for liquid to resist flowing?" (The answer here obviously being viscosity)
SC: What? Can you read that again?
Me: (Repeat question)
SC: (Repeats it back)
Me:...yeah.
SC: Well, my son was in there earlier and he didn't know the answer. So he came home and Googled it and got all these pictures of female genitalia in the results.
Me: ...WHAT??
SC: And now he's locked himself in his bedroom for the past half hour, and I'm not happy!
Me: ............................... (I was so floored I had no idea what to say)
SC: Haha! I'm just kidding with you! (Laughter heard in background)
Me: .................................
SC: So what is the answer?
Me:............................................vis cosity.
SC: What you got someone in college over there?
Me:......It's a Trivial Pursuit question.

I don't remember how the conversation ended, as I was somewhere between fuming and flabbergasted.

If I ever find out who that guy is, I'd love to turn him into the cops for prank calling me and sexual harassment. And no, the harassment part is not overdoing it, as I felt disturbed by that phone call for a couple days afterwards.

And that college line REALLY put me over the edge. WTF does he think people that work wage jobs are stupid, high-school dropouts?? Everyone at my store is either a college grad or in college/high school at the moment!!!

But to wrap this up, that SC can burn in hell...

[Darkwish]

I agree, that was a creepy call. I wouldn't have told him the answer after that!

[EmilyRose1982]

I was just too shocked to think of an appropriate response, let alone process the notion that I should have just hung up on him....

That never happens to me.

Gives you and idea of how taken aback I was!

[Nayeli_Sabia]

(We have a daily trivia question posted next to the Coffee of the Day board. Correct answer = 10cents off your order)

Add to the creepy.... I think I might know what company you work for.

I love the Trivia, and when I don't know it, I learn something new

[Becks]

SC: And now he's locked himself in his bedroom for the past half hour, and I'm not happy!

Better than taking over the bathroom.

Seriously, though...

[zzapp the witch]

I'm offended, I knew what viscosity was in Jr High.

[Zombi]

I only know it because of the story about Pamela Stevenson and the thickshake.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Double-yoo Tee Eff?

And I knew what Viscosity was in high school.

[allniter]

I thought it was a pretty funny prank. His word about the college wasn't right but the rest didn't seem too bad.

[Andara Bledin]

You know, that's the type of call where he starts talking about all those pictures you should feign being aghast and tell him, "You mean you have a teenaged son and you don't have safe search turned on? What kind of father are you?!?" and all that.

But it's kind of sad that you post a question about a word that starts with 'V' and the best he can come up with is vagina jokes.

^-.-^

[depechemodefan]

I work in a library, so we get really weird calls. One is "How do you make a woman come?" The co-worker who answered said, "Did you call her name?" My co-worker then realized what he meant, so, like we are trained to do, she suggested that she can find a book for him.

But yeah, that guy who called you just was tasteless. I hate when people think they can treat you rudely just because you are in customer service.

[Meadhands]

Ok, here goes...
Me: Um, sure. "What V-word is the term for liquid to resist flowing?"

Did anyone else sit back, close your eyes, and try to think of the answer?
No? Oh... uh... then, uh, I didn't either.

[blas]

I've known about viscosity since I've worked at the factory. Little late, unfortunately....but I never thought anything in high school was worth listening to.

[Apathy]

Who sits around and thinks, "Hey, I know! I'll alleviate my boredom by making an inappropriate call to some restaurant." Idiot.

[Andara Bledin]

Did anyone else sit back, close your eyes, and try to think of the answer?
No? Oh... uh... then, uh, I didn't either.

Well, not really. Because it took only a second to pull up the word 'viscosity.'

Viscosity is the reason motor oil comes in different weights.

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