no help

[vacation_rentals_suck]

Me: thanks for calling us, this is Dave, how may I help you?

Guest: Yea, Dave, I need to know the name of that restaurant in town

Me: Ok I need more info than that

Guest: it's that one, you know, where the locals go to eat

Me: I am not sure I can help you without a better description

Guest: They have real good food and we ate there a few years back, and I cant remember what it's called

Me: well I dont know what to tell you

Guest: you dont sound like you want to be very helpful.....you're the third person I have talked to that doesnt know. We come here every year and its the same thing. Nobody helps us with anything. I wanna cry right now. I get one vacation a year and all I ask for is a little help and nobody wants to help us.

Me: Ma'am I do want to help you but you're not giving me a lot to go on

Guest: Oh bullshit.....you're just like everyone else there, you cant be bothered. I just dont think we can come back next year. I get stressed out every time we come. I am just stressed out. I know you dont care. (she starts crying) Just forget it, we'll figure everything out on our own, just like every time we come here

[RetailWorkhorse]

...

*Dresses up as a ninja and stalks this person*

By the GODS! With no description how can ANYBODY ever hope to come up with a resturaunt? Next time someone does that, just say McDonald's or something like that. Don't need that kind of aggitation in the Local Hang-Outs. Uhg.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Guest: you dont sound like you want to be very helpful.....you're the third person I have talked to that doesnt know. We come here every year and its the same thing. Nobody helps us with anything. I wanna cry right now. I get one vacation a year and all I ask for is a little help and nobody wants to help us.

"You don't sound like you want to be very helpful either." *click

Either that or you give them directions to the nearest McDonalds.

There was a thread a little while back about people you don't help. Well here's a kind of people I don't help: people who give you so little information that you can't figure out what the hell it is they want, and get all pissy when you ask them to elaborate further.

[Crow The Robot]

For the love of all things holy, don't come back.

[BookstoreEscapee]

OK, being that this is a vacation rental, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say it's located in a vacation town. Most vacation towns have at least a few restaurants. I'm sure the locals eat in them from time to time.

[dithers66]

You: So where are you from

SC: Boston.

You: Oh hey, I was there once. What's the name of that bar called, oh, it has that parott sitting outside on a perch there?

SC: How the would I know that?!

You: Boy you suck, you don't even know your own city.

[zigcat]

Not quite the same but:

ME: Hi (pizza place) can I help you?
SC: I'd like a pizza for delivery.
ME: Sure. To what address?
SC: You know where that one high school is?
ME: Which high school?
SC: That one near the park.
ME: Uh sir we need an exact street address.
SC: I don't live here. I'm just watching a house for a friend of mine.
ME: Well is there a piece of mail or anything that might have an address?
SC: I don't know why you have to make this so difficult. All I want is a pizza delivered.
ME: Well in order for me to do that I need to know just where I'm delivering to. We can't go on vague information.
SC: It's not vague. I'm three houses down from the high school near the park.
ME: I'm afraid that still doesn't tell me anything.
SC: Jesus Christ! Just forget it then. I'll call one of your competitors. Maybe someone there will know wtf they're doing (click)

[Snowbird]

If she was in tears just thinking about planning her vacation, it sounds like she needs more than that to fix what is stressing her... and she doesn't need to bring it your way.

How would she like it if you played the vague game with her though?

Her: Oh you know, that restaurant!

You: Ohhh yeah! Yeah, where the food is so good, and everyone goes to it and it's right up that street that gets some traffic, right by that other place that people go to and they're open for hours... oh but I can't recall the name of it, but it's that one!

Maybe she thought yours is a one restaurant town?

[tropicsgoddess]

I guess she expected a psychic on the other end...moron.

[smileyeagle1021]

is it kinda wrong that sometimes I can actually answer those questions

like
sc- I'm looking for that restaurant, you know the one with mexican food that everyone says is so good
me- red iguana
sc- yeah, that's the one

or
sc- last time I was in town I went up to the university area and found a really good place, do you know what the name of it is?
me- was parking a royal pain
sc- yeah it was
me- that would be B and D Burger

or prepare to be scared

sc- I went to a burger place that was like a block from a hospital (note, there are 5 major hospitals in Salt Lake)
me- oh yeah, the Iceberg Drive In.

and prepare to be impressed, this is from my call center days
this was a san diego call
sc- I remember going to a restaurant, I believe it was on the water front
me- Anthony's Seafood?
sc- yeah, that's the one

[zigcat]

is it kinda wrong that sometimes I can actually answer those questions


sc- last time I was in town I went up to the university area and found a really good place, do you know what the name of it is?
me- was parking a royal pain
sc- yeah it was
me- that would be A and D Burger

You mean B & D Burger? There's also Big Ed's, Gandolfo's, The U Pharmacy (although I don't know if they still serve their shakes. ) The Pie (our competitor) and some noodle house whose name escapes me.

or prepare to be scared

sc- I went to a burger place that was like a block from a hospital (note, there are 5 major hospitals in Salt Lake)
me- oh yeah, the Iceberg Drive In.

Absolutely LOVE their shakes. YUMmmmy!

[Sliceanddice]

or prepare to be scared

sc- I went to a burger place that was like a block from a hospital (note, there are 5 major hospitals in Salt Lake)
me- oh yeah, the Iceberg Drive In.

OT-OMG.... i miss Iceberg, we use to have one down here, it was awesome!!! now its a neilsons....

[Geek King]

is it kinda wrong that sometimes I can actually answer those questions

No, wrong was reading your post just as "Sychronicity II" came up on my playlist. Creepy, really.

[depechemodefan]

is it kinda wrong that sometimes I can actually answer those questions

like
sc- I'm looking for that restaurant, you know the one with mexican food that everyone says is so good
me- red iguana
sc- yeah, that's the one

or
sc- last time I was in town I went up to the university area and found a really good place, do you know what the name of it is?
me- was parking a royal pain
sc- yeah it was
me- that would be A and D Burger

or prepare to be scared

sc- I went to a burger place that was like a block from a hospital (note, there are 5 major hospitals in Salt Lake)
me- oh yeah, the Iceberg Drive In.

and prepare to be impressed, this is from my call center days
this was a san diego call
sc- I remember going to a restaurant, I believe it was on the water front
me- Anthony's Seafood?
sc- yeah, that's the one

I'm imagining, though, that they show up at the place (red iguana, A adn D Burger, etc) and go "wait, this isn't the restaurant! That guy was wrong!" meaning either either a)they still had no idea if that was the right place, they assume you were psychic, and knew what you were talking about or b) It's the right place, but their stupid little minds confused one place with another, so of course it's your fault.

[smileyeagle1021]

You mean B & D Burger?

Oops... glad that one hasn't come up in a while and when it did it was at the end of my shift... oh well, I gave them the right directions at least.