Queen Nut of Psycho Hill

[MystyGlyttyr]

Not knocking any religion, not commenting on any religion. Not even commenting on being a prophet for your beliefs or whatever. Your beliefs don't matter. Everyone can enjoy this little tidbit equally because this one was a CRAZY.

*phone call!*

Me: "Newsroom."
Some Lady: "I had a question about ya'll's obituaries?"
Me: "I'd be the one you'd need to talk to, then."
SL: "It's about the Monday obituaries."
Me: "This last Monday's?"
SL: "Uh, no. When are the Monday obituaries written?"
Me: "Um...what do you mean?"
SL: "I mean, when do they get written up and printed?"
Me: "Uh...Sunday."
SL: *suddenly getting nasty* "So you do all that on Sundays?"
Me: *wondering what hell I've wandered into this time* "Um...yes ma'am."
SL: "Who does that?!"
Me: "Either me or-,"
SL: "YOU would write about such things on the Lord's day??"
Me: "Uh." *brain attempts to reboot, unfortunately, she won't stop pushing the reset button*
SL: "How DARE you call yourself a woman of God and write about such things as the destruction of our Earthly vessels on the Lord's day??"
Me: *brain: Abort, Retry, Fail?*
SL: "What about the papers themselves?? They're done when?"
Me: "...I guess on the Lord's day?"
SL: *GASP* "YOU PEOPLE DOIN' THAT WORK ON THE LORD'S DAY?!"
Me: *obviously sarcasm is wasted on this one* "Ma'am, we print out our papers every day of the week-,"
SL: *screaming* "YOU CAN'T BE WORKIN' ON THE LORD'S DAY!!"
Me: *starting to think about going to move my car to a different parking lot* "Um, ma'am..."
SL: *as fast as she can go methinks* "HAIL-MARY-FULL-OF-GRACE-LORD-IS-WITH-THEE-BLESSED-"
Me: "Ma'am-,"
SL: "-ART-THOU-AMONG-WOMEN-,"
Me: "MA'AM!"
SL: *shrieks* "SILENT HEATHEN!!"
Me: *hangs up, unplugs phone*

I'm actually a little afraid to go to lunch now.

[Imogene]

"Heathen? Sure... I suppose... particularly since I'm not Christian, I'm Pagan. Also, America isn't based on Christianity, you psycho. I'll work on Sunday if I feel like working on it, or my boss tells me to work it. I'm not worried about what some god I don't believe in will think of me for doing so."

Anyway, as to the story at hand, does your work not allow you to hang up as soon as a 'customer' becomes abusive?

[RecoveringKinkoid]

I have to wonder if you were being pranked.

I HOPE you were being pranked.

[IT Grunt]

Me: *brain: Abort, Retry, Fail?*

First violation of Rule 1. Diet Wild Cherry Pepsi + Nose = Not Comfortable.

I have to wonder if you were being pranked.

I HOPE you were being pranked.

The scary thing is, she probably wasn't.

I would have to say that lady isn't playing with a full deck. Either that, or she is one of those perfectly sane people who are willing to throw all hope of logic and reason out the window when it comes to their religion, and perceived slights against it. Newspapers have been running on Mondays, and thus have been edited/composed/printed on Sundays, since the invention of the printing press!? HOW DARE THEY!!

[MystyGlyttyr]

Anyway, as to the story at hand, does your work not allow you to hang up as soon as a 'customer' becomes abusive?

They probably do, but I was a bit too befuddled to get around to it at first.

I would love if it was some kind of prank, but then again, some of the crazies who gravitate to the newspaper office, I figure she was dead serious. I've had one who's been trying to hang around my desk the last couple of days telling me all about how his ex-wife, the government, and the FBI are "frogging" him over child support. Fortunately, he's pretty easy to shoo away.

Or there was the woman who took out her teeth and set them on my desk. ("Christy, can I borrow your Lysol??")

Or the prison inmate who keeps sending us his crushed-up prescriptions in an envelope so we can see that the guards are poisoning him.

Then there was the time Gandalf walked in, staff, robe, beard and all. ...this is a story of it's own for a later time...

...actually, I find I'm far less surprised than I initially thought I was...

[Crosshair]

Also, America isn't based on Christianity, you psycho.?

Well, most of the laws are related to Jewish and Christian influence with some Roman and Greek thrown in the mix.

[Tria]

Then there was the time Gandalf walked in, staff, robe, beard and all. ...this is a story of it's own for a later time...

*Gets popcorn* Well....

[friendofjimmyk]

SL: *shrieks* "SILENT HEATHEN!!"

Tee hee. When I was still using, the friends I had called me "Heathen" (my real name is Heather)

[Captain Trips]

I would not have been able to restrain myself from this response:

"I'm JEWISH, you freaking b*&ch! I work Sundays so my Christian co-workers don't have to!"

(BTW, I AM Jewish, and have worked on Christian holidays for that very reason!)

[Mighty Girl]

Me thinks the "God Warrior" from the trading spouses show called you. She's FRIGHTENING.

[SuperB]

"Silent Heathen"?
I may have to try that on my next SC.

[tonydanza]

If that lady even turned on a lamp on the lord's day she would be using a convenience that wouldn't be available if people DIDN'T work on the lord's day.

[SuperB]

If that lady even turned on a lamp on the lord's day she would be using a convenience that wouldn't be available if people DIDN'T work on the lord's day.

They wouldn't understand it even if you used small words. I would actually love to argue that with someone myself. I have my beliefs and go to church when I can but it's my beliefs as I see them, not to push on someone else or be judged by someone else.
If someone is able to sit around all Sunday doing nothing but what they think is the "right thing to do", more power to them. The rest of us can't afford that luxury and Jesus himself criticized people like this SC.

[saint]

Gandalf?
Please, do tell?