Phones ringing off the hook, pizzas falling off the oven, and some random phone-answering tard brain is trying to help a customer on the phone located the number for a store near Route One. While everyone else stops to find phone-lists and narrow down the search parameter, I tell phone-tard to tell the customer the number for the nearest corporate store, “…but give the area code as 411.” Phone-tard looks at my blankly, and I sigh and go back to work. If you’ve gotta explain it …
Later, Greg told me a similar story. Taking down pager numbers years ago he recorded one of his driver’s pager numbers as area-code 911. He said he didn’t but I think he did it deliberately. One night, a manager needed to get ahold of that driver and dialed the pager number, apparently telling the emergency operator who demanded to know what the emergency was, “I’m sorry, apparently I’m a fucking moron,” and hung up.
in a rather unrelated story…I was once in the police station in London when an officer announced over the loud speaker requesting anyone who had ordered the 50 pizzas delivered to the front desk to come collect. Apparently it was a prank.
Now that takes some cheek! Wish I’d thought of it when I was a teenager!
Comment by Tania Pink — December 29, 2006 @ 11:34 am
…of course….the delivery guy still got a good tip!
Comment by Tania Pink — December 29, 2006 @ 11:36 am
Area code 411. Nice. I’m going to use that.
Comment by Diesel — December 29, 2006 @ 12:13 pm
Thanks for droppin by my blog. Interesting pranks, hmm….
Comment by Stunner — December 29, 2006 @ 12:23 pm
I’m looking for Amanda . . . Amanda Hugnkiss . . .
Comment by JACC — December 29, 2006 @ 2:50 pm
Our emergency code is 000, but do you know how many people dial 911 instead? The power of television…
Comment by ChickyBabe — December 29, 2006 @ 3:38 pm
OMG. Why have I never thought of the 411 area code thing? Awesome.
Comment by Amanda — December 29, 2006 @ 4:00 pm
I totally get you on this one Snay. I once had to explain to a cashier in my employ how to dial 911.
Once she got the drift, she proceeded to forget to dial 9 for an outside line, even tho I told her that when I ‘splained it all to Loosey before.
Comment by Serra — December 29, 2006 @ 4:00 pm