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How to make an embarassing situation worse: blog about it
Note to self:
Verify that the person who answers the phone at your mother's desk is, indeed, your mother before you plaintively ask, "Mommmmmmmmmy?"
Because otherwise it will be a classmate of yours. And the classmate and your mother and several other classmates/co-workers will undoubtedly have a good laugh at your expense.
srah - Thursday, 1 April 2004 - 4:16 PM
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Comments (10)
katie - April 2, 2004 - 8:07 AM - ℓ
I can top that:
Whilst living with my host family in France, a phone call comes in for me. Host mommy hands me the receiver. I say hello. A male voice on the other end says, "Hi Katie!" Instinctively thinking the only person it could be is my dad, I answer, "Hi Papa! Dad, it's so good to hear from you!"
Long pause on the other end.
Turns out, it was a priest-monk I know from the States, calling to see how I was doing. That I would call a priest-monk 'papa' and 'dad' on the phone is quite embarressing.
Urs - April 2, 2004 - 8:42 AM - ℓ
Who was it??
When my mom was starting her job at the WIC office, she would sometimes answer the phone "Hello, Arnolds" (how we answer the phone at home) instead of "WIC, This is Mary"
When I had several jobs, I would get mixed up when answering the phone and have to think for a second before speaking, do I say "Hello, Arnolds," "Multicultural Academic Support Center, this is Ursula," or "Husky Bookstore, this is Ursula, how can I help you?"
And now that we have caller ID at home, we can change what we say to accomodate the caller. Once someone called from a post office and I said "Hello?" and it turned out to be a customer expecting to hear "Hello, Arnolds"
These were all totally unimportant stories told for no apparent reason
jamelah - April 2, 2004 - 12:47 PM - ℓ
yesterday morning at work, i forgot where i was and picked up the phone and said "good morning, albion um.... ummmmm..... uuuuuuuummmmmmmmm..... so, hi."
and the guy didn't have a sense of humor about it either.
The Sun - April 2, 2004 - 12:50 PM - ℓ
Over the summer I worked at Meijer in the home solutions (a fancy word for hardware, paint, and rubbermaid department), and of course I always had to answer the phones when people called to see if we had the Coventry patio set and such. Took me three months to stop wanting to say "Home Solutions, this is Mike" everytime I heard a phone. Pavlov gone awry.
Anonymous - April 2, 2004 - 2:30 PM - ℓ
The moon is named Hedwig and she's german
Ralph: Can you open my milk, mommy?
Miss Hoover: I'm not mommy, Ralph. I'm Miss Hoover.