What exit are you off of?

[Evil Queen]

Okay, I get REALLY tired of this question because the customer will ALWAYS repete it back to me. WRONG. I don't know why people can't open up their ears and turn the radio down! I don't have an accent! I on purposefully GOT RID OF IT because of numbskulls like YOU!

For the sake of the post, I am telling you what the Exit is that my hotel sits on. There are dozens of others around and I have bleeped out the Highway so that should make it a little harder to find me.

Me:
SC: Learn to listen!

Me: Good Evening! Thank you for calling <hotel> this is EQ. How can I help you?
SC: Yeah, we're on <hwy>, what exit do we take?
Me: Okay, just take the West Belfort Ave. Exit.
SC: West Sulpher?
Me: No, West Belfort.
SC: Beaufort?
Me: No, BELFORT! (yes, I screamed this part)
SC: Hold on.
*gets passed off to someone else*
SC2: What's the Exit?
Me: *sighs* West Belfort Ave.
SC2: Oh, West Belfort Ave. Okay, thanks!
*click*

[Soria]

:: offers a cookie and a wig, due to the hair pulling out::

[Evil Queen]

I have my own, actually. Bright purple, but thanks for the offer.

*takes a cookie too*

[Soria]

Ah, yes, but does the wig have sparkles?

[Evil Queen]

ooo, yours does? Awesome!

*puts on wig and looks pretty*

[Soria]

Its black with sparklies, and I can't actually find it, but I do.


:: gives EQ the pretty Evil Queen award cookie::

[Meegz]

Heh, big cities and such with exits and all that gobbledegook always confuse me, but I live in a small town where most stores exist on the same highway for a few miles. (I live in a state thats only 90 miles long to begin with!) No turns, no anything. I get people calling from 100 feet from my store wondering where I am.

Seriously. In my area, the stores congregate in a 2 mile stretch, you can't really miss a big sign that says *STORE HERE*. Mostly outlets, restaurants and of course STARBUCKS! I still get phone calls.

"I'm coming south, nearyby a set of outlets. where are you guys?"
"Actually, we're the store right after you pass those outlets. If you hit the Burger King (thats next store to our little plaza) you've gone too far. You can't miss the sign. We're next to starbucks."
"ok, so I need to go pass the burger king...how far?"
"No no, right before that. Its the same side. You're right in the area you need to be if you see the outlets"
"OMG I don't know this area WHAT ARE THE DIRECTIONS?!?!!"

So, no exits, no turns, no anything. Yet they still miss it.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

This is where Mapquest driving directions come in handy. They give you the exit number plus the streets that exit goes to.

That is, assuming your state assigns numbers to exits.

[Evil Queen]

Problem being inside Houston city limits, there are no more exit numbers. Just streets. Which drives ME (someone from the eastern states, all with numbers on the exists!) crazy!

[Max]

Problem being inside Houston city limits, there are no more exit numbers. Just streets. Which drives ME (someone from the eastern states, all with numbers on the exists!) crazy!

Omigod, I much prefer exit numbers. Sooooo much more linear!

[scroob]

im kinda threadjacking, but here's a funny one. guy comes into my store in ct asking for directions to..... niagra falls!!!! lol guy's like 9 hours away. also, people often asked how do get to a casino when coming down from the north. breaks their heart to tell them that they had driven right by it

[jerkface11]

Here in Arkansas the exits have the street name AND a number. Same way in Oklahoma except they put the sign 100 feet from the actual exit.

[dithers66]

"If you'd roll up your window, I'm sure you'd be able to hear me"

[smileyeagle1021]

Oh I get that all the time with directions... sometimes it is my fault because I forget that not everyone is smart enough to realize that 80 merges with 15 and splits off again (I say not smart enough to realize it because there are really big signs telling you exactly what is happening... and we are an airport location so you'd think that people would clue into the signs saying to airport if nothing else)... and scarily if they miss the fact that they have to go into 15 and end up on the 201 instead they will find the exit with the same name as the one for us... but 22 blocks south of where they need to be... oh and trying to tell people that there is both a South Temple and a North Temple... and people get pissey when they say I gave them directions onto a road that dead ends into a truck stop... or turning off of north temple to get onto... north temple (people from salt lake will know what I'm talking about... there is actually 2 separate North Temples for about 3 blocks)
so yes, I know that the streets in Salt Lake are kinda confusing if you aren't familiar with them... but if you would actually LISTEN to me and follow my directions you wouldn't get lost...
My other favorite is when people call and ask the best way to get to us from the north and I tell them "take 15 southbound to 80 westbound, exit on Redwood"
and they say "oh normally when I'm going to that area I would take 15 southbound to 215 southbound and exit at 700 north"
:WTF: you already knew how to get here, yet you still called and asked... then got upset that I told you directions different than what you usually take because I give the directions that are easier to follow.

[Evil Queen]

Corporate (dr) is the same way; we have three of them and NONE of them connect. That's fun.