The Power of the red button on the cellphone COMPELS YOU!

[fireheart]

Here's the plan. We tow the vehicle and hold it ransom for
*zooms in*
One HUNDRED dollars!

Uhhh don't you want to hold it for more than a hundred dollars? After all, this is a stupid customer....

New plan. We tow the vehicle and hold it ransom for....
*does the pinky finger to mouth and zooms in*
One HUNDRED THOUSAND dollars!

I'm kidding....

[gerund]

Anybody else hear Robert Plant screeching at the end of "Battle of Evermore"?

BRING IT BACK
BRING IT BACK

Epic music. Great story. Argabarga's stories are the greatest.

I've done that hanging up thing on someone, and they didn't get it for about 4 or 5 times. I didn't have their car, I was going to complain about their barking dogs to the council and their way of convincing me was NOT to say

"Yes I'll stop my dogs barking."

Their way was to tell me that they couldn't stop their dogs barking and when I said I would ring the council about it, they told me I would be starting a fight if I rang them.

Your dogs are barking and you absolutely refuse to do anything about it and you're going to try to order me not to do the only thing that will stop your dogs barking?
Click
Ring ring
"Don't ring the council or..."
click
Ring ring
"Don't .."
click
Ring ring
click
Ring ring
click
ETC and so on



I rang the council and now when the dogs bark someone comes out of the house and stops them, so they don't bark for an hour or two.



And there was no fight, because I refused to fight - either on the phone or afterwards. That's why I hung up, he was trying to start a fight with me.

[thansal]

I did that to one customer back when I worked retail. Never got in trouble for it (even though it was an actual customer), but I was just tired and didn't feel like dealing with being sworn at as I tried to help the idiot.

Major Kudos for handling that twit

[Seshat]

I REALLY love the excuse "I'm not from around here!" And I really, REALLY love pointing-out to them that stop signs, speed limit signs, handicap parking signs, fire lane signs, etc. mean the same thing no matter where you are!

True..

.. but when I went to the States, I discovered a few things. Like ONE WAY signs which looked extremely different, so much so that I didn't recognize the first one I saw until I was going the wrong way down the street.

(One U-turn later....)

Several of the street signs are significantly different, US/Australia. Not good. Easy enough to adapt to, after a day or so, but that first day or so can be bad.

[Andara Bledin]

.. but when I went to the States, I discovered a few things. Like ONE WAY signs which looked extremely different, so much so that I didn't recognize the first one I saw until I was going the wrong way down the street.

And this is why one should always review basic signage for any new place they plan to do any driving in prior to arrival.

I imagine that's a whole hell of a lot easier these days than it used to be, what with the actual full legal requirements for most first-world nations being available on the internet.

^-.-^

[AccountingDrone]

True..

.. but when I went to the States, I discovered a few things. Like ONE WAY signs which looked extremely different, so much so that I didn't recognize the first one I saw until I was going the wrong way down the street.

(One U-turn later....)

Several of the street signs are significantly different, US/Australia. Not good. Easy enough to adapt to, after a day or so, but that first day or so can be bad.

I made a printout of the common German street signs and their meanings and packed it in my carry on so I had it available when I picked up the SUV. I pretty much already had the ones that are different from US signs memorized anyhow. Now getting the blasted GPS to communicate in english took a bit!

[BeenThereDoneThat]

I am sooooo envious of anyone who gets to hang up on a customer because they are being rude and obnoxious...how lovely that would be!

I do so hope that if I ever travel to and drive in a country where you drive on the left, I don't forget >_< Hopefully sitting on the other side of the car with the steering wheel on that side as well will help remind me!!

[Canarr]

I made a printout of the common German street signs and their meanings and packed it in my carry on so I had it available when I picked up the SUV.

There was a story going around during the World Cup of 2006 in Germany. Apparently, a group of Australians had parked their rental car someplace and gone to the stadium to watch their team play. Being clever, they wrote down the name of the street, so they could ask someone if they got lost.

Their team won, they got lost, and went to a local policeman for help in locating the street they were parked on. They were slightly confused and moderately embarrassed when the cop, amidst laughing, explained to them that EINBAHNSTRASSE is NOT a street name, but simply means "One Way" in German...