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Dec. 21st, 2005 02:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
badstar"I'm transferring the internet onto my computer."
"I hate to perseverate but..."
"4- uh, let me start over...4- uh that's not right...4- yeah that's it."
Fuego: "Have you called before?" Idiot: "Well, I travel back and forth between here and Chicago a lot so..."
"There is not enough volume for this destination you settled" (Supposedly reading straight from an error message onscreen)
People say this stuff to me.
While I'm here...anyone got some insight as to why I ask specifically for a first name and people feel the need to give and spell out Bob, b-o-b Smith, S-m-i-t-h? But they always stop after Bob, like they've answered my question appropriately, but as soon as I start with "Okay, and may I have your phone number?", right at about the word "may", they need to spell it, and then they do so REALLY rapidly and without breathing continue onto "Smith" and it's spelling? And get all huffy like I've interrrupted them. At one point, I started putting a bit of empasis on the word "first", which has reduced this a little bit. Oh, and when women catch themselves doing this, they ALWAYS finish, giggle maniacally and say "You said first. My first name is Cindy"
One day last week, I had a guy completely blow his stack because I asked for his first name but not last. (I usually don't NEED the last name.
Or feel the need to spit out 5 phone numbers at the same time "my number is 555-1212 but if that doesn't work try 555-1213 or 556-1234 or 555-4321" And then if I ask them to hold on a second because well...it takes a minute to search for a single number...they get all huffy.
Endlessly annoying as this is (Far more information that I've asked for...I ask for information a I need it. Plus it interrupts my train of thought.), my point is NOT (entirely) to bitch.
Seriously. Is this people being impatient with me? Is this some sort of social conditioning...these are not random occasional things, it's a no-fewer-than-75-80%-of-my-calls thing.
Ideas?
"I hate to perseverate but..."
"4- uh, let me start over...4- uh that's not right...4- yeah that's it."
Fuego: "Have you called before?" Idiot: "Well, I travel back and forth between here and Chicago a lot so..."
"There is not enough volume for this destination you settled" (Supposedly reading straight from an error message onscreen)
People say this stuff to me.
While I'm here...anyone got some insight as to why I ask specifically for a first name and people feel the need to give and spell out Bob, b-o-b Smith, S-m-i-t-h? But they always stop after Bob, like they've answered my question appropriately, but as soon as I start with "Okay, and may I have your phone number?", right at about the word "may", they need to spell it, and then they do so REALLY rapidly and without breathing continue onto "Smith" and it's spelling? And get all huffy like I've interrrupted them. At one point, I started putting a bit of empasis on the word "first", which has reduced this a little bit. Oh, and when women catch themselves doing this, they ALWAYS finish, giggle maniacally and say "You said first. My first name is Cindy"
One day last week, I had a guy completely blow his stack because I asked for his first name but not last. (I usually don't NEED the last name.
Or feel the need to spit out 5 phone numbers at the same time "my number is 555-1212 but if that doesn't work try 555-1213 or 556-1234 or 555-4321" And then if I ask them to hold on a second because well...it takes a minute to search for a single number...they get all huffy.
Endlessly annoying as this is (Far more information that I've asked for...I ask for information a I need it. Plus it interrupts my train of thought.), my point is NOT (entirely) to bitch.
Seriously. Is this people being impatient with me? Is this some sort of social conditioning...these are not random occasional things, it's a no-fewer-than-75-80%-of-my-calls thing.
Ideas?
