Things they are saying today.

[monolayth]

So I usually think some randomness like this when the members call in for roadside assistance and say somethign weird. I decided to share with Dispatch because he is feeling my pain as we have be very busy. He instructed me to post these. So here ya go.


" I guess I am on my cell." you guess? You mean you don’t know?

"I was wondering if I could get some help jumping my car." ummm lots of squats to build up your leg muscles? A bike and a ramp? Oh you mean jumpstart!


"there is no road that crosses Utica trail. it’s a country road. "

So what? It’s a road in the middle of nowhere with nothing connecting? How are we supposed to get there fly? And furthermore if nothing ever connects to it why do you need a car? You running up and down your imaginary road? How did you get your car on your imaginary road? Hmmmm?


OH MY GOD STOP SAYING UM! You um sound um like um an um
Idiot um when you um um um talk um like um this. Um.


"We just had a snow blizzard" oh yes I have heard of this elusive snow blizzard…..its like a corn blizzard only with snow.


And for some reason I cant get the time of day correct. Kept saying good evening this morning and this evening I keep saying good morning.

[Broomjockey]

"I was wondering if I could get some help jumping my car." ummm lots of squats to build up your leg muscles? A bike and a ramp? Oh you mean jumpstart!

I wonder if this person spent a lot of time in Canada. That's how we usually refer to it. "Can someone give me a jump?" "I need a jump." And so on and so forth.

[mharbourgirl]

I wonder if this person spent a lot of time in Canada. That's how we usually refer to it. "Can someone give me a jump?" "I need a jump." And so on and so forth.

You are so right. I read that and thought `How is that weird?` I didn`t realize it was a Canadianism.

[SG15Z]

And for some reason I cant get the time of day correct. Kept saying good evening this morning and this evening I keep saying good morning.

I just say Good morning all the time, as I always say the wrong thing. It works as I usually sleep all day so 3pm is kinda morning to me in a way. ;D

I wonder if this person spent a lot of time in Canada. That's how we usually refer to it. "Can someone give me a jump?" "I need a jump." And so on and so forth.

I call it a jump. In fact I'm use to a lot of people calling it a jump, and I'm way down here in Texas. Maybe it's just an odd thing to call it where she lives.

[Hobbs]

Huua, that SG15Z. I've heard it as a 'jump' too.

[Ironclad Alibi]

If she's a hottie, I'll be willing to "jump" her.

[CrazedClerkthe2nd]

I wonder if this person spent a lot of time in Canada. That's how we usually refer to it. "Can someone give me a jump?" "I need a jump." And so on and so forth.

When our car died, I told my wife it needed a boost. She looked at me like I had two heads. (I'm Canadian and she's American). She'd never heard that word used in that context before.

[SarcasticJerk]

When talking to a non-car person, I say 'jumpstart'. When talking to a car person, I say 'jump'.

Oh, and I'm from Omaha (kinda sorta).
I don't miss your (currently) twelve degree temperature.

[Broomjockey]

When our car died, I told my wife it needed a boost.

Yeah, that too. Though I've moved away from that one personally after watching Gone in 60 Seconds too many times.

[Red_Dazes]

I wonder if this person spent a lot of time in Canada. That's how we usually refer to it. "Can someone give me a jump?" "I need a jump." And so on and so forth.

Must be a northern thing... up in WA we say the same thing "Need a jump?"

..then again when I lived in the back woods of Cali they said it too..... maybe it's just a hick thing?

:P

[tropicsgoddess]

OH MY GOD STOP SAYING UM! You um sound um like um an um
Idiot um when you um um um talk um like um this. Um.

Man, it drives me nuts when people do that!

[BlaqueKatt]

"We just had a snow blizzard" oh yes I have heard of this elusive snow blizzard…..its like a corn blizzard only with snow.

well to be fair it's not as tasty as the blizzard treat from a well known ice cream chain in the states....

[EricKei]

I've always heard it as "jump" as well ^_^ at least, more often than as "jump start". I've only ever heard "boost a car" as a synonym for "steal a car".

OH MY GOD STOP SAYING UM! You um sound um like um an um Idiot um when you um um um talk um like um this. Um.

This reminds me of my favorite radio show...They have a "Four 'ya know' Rule" for callers, in order to prevent people from overusing these "terms". If a caller does that with uhm/ya know/like/I mean, et all too many times in a short span of time, they just hang up without another word. Note that I don't mean "3 or 4 times in a 2-minute call", I mean using it every 2 or 3 seconds as if it were a verbal "comma", as in the quotation above.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

well to be fair it's not as tasty as the blizzard treat from a well known ice cream chain in the states....

Concrete mixers from Culvers are way better.

[ShadowTiger]

A Snow Blizzard. Let me jot that down real quick in my reading notebook with my writing pen.