Anyone else get dumb questions at their job??

[LisaNJ25]

Working for an airline we get all sorts.

Checking in a little old lady...Ask if she wants a window or an aisle seat. Replies, I better sit on the aisle since I just had my hair done. I dont want it to get messed up by the wind.

There's an another one that has happened many times. Lady checks in at ticket counter. The put the bag tag on her bag. She gets all upset and demands to speak with the CSM. CSM comes over and asks what is the matter. Lady says that she is offended because they put the "FAT" tag on her bag. She realizes that she is bigger than everybody else but that is no reason to put that on her luggage. CSM replies, "Mam, you are flying to Fresno. The city code is FAT, which stands for Fresno Air Terminal"

Another one...Person calls in telling res office they want to fly to Hippopotamus NY. The res agent says, there is no such place. Person calling in says, I was there a year ago. They go back and forth for a bit. Finally Res agent starts listing cities. Albany, La Guardia, Kennedy, Rochester, Syracuse, Buffalo. Customer says...Wait thats it. Its Buffalo. I knew it was a large animal.

ok i am in tears over these

 

[bgirldeb]

Mean!!!
One time DH drove through KFC and they "were all out of chicken." The truck hadn't come, all they had was the pot pie.

I guess the truck never comes by the KFC by my house. They are always out of things. I went through there one afternoon about 1:00 through the drive through and was greeted with "thanks for choosing KFC. all we have is wings"

 

[WDWguru]

I work part time at the Apple Store, as in Apple computers. We've been open just over two weeks now and I've had three people say "so, these run on Windows, right?" I've also had several people come in to look at iPods and are shocked that we also make computers and ask if that's something new we're branching into. Yeah - just for the last 30 years or so!

I also work full time at a major newspaper and used to answer the phones at the front desk. I'd be here all day if I listed all the asinine questions we used to get!

 

[Forevryoung]

welcome to my world. you have no idea,why some come to the fire house to ask questions or call 911,with the most wierd storys,questions.if i did tell you the most strangest one,i for sure would be banned here.

YUUUUUP

People think I'm a human map quest as soon as I stand inside the fire house!
My favorite story:

The fire house is in the middle of Long Island in NY (keep this in mind).

Woman: "I need to find New Hampshire" (did you lose it???).

Me: "Ok, I dont have exact directions but I can get you heading the right way. Which way did you come from?"

Woman: "Connecticut"

Me: "You know you went the wrong way?" (and over a FEW bridges)

Woman: "yea I just have to keep going north right?"

Me: "No, it's a little more complicated than that. You have to head west for about an hour until you hit the first bridge and then..."

Woman: "so i should be there in three hours?"

I gave up and let a friend talk to her, she was definitely a little lost

 

[MouseEars4us]

I work in a camera store.
The name of the store has the word*camera* in it.
I have had people ask where we have the weight machines,
where do we keep the window blinds, and do we sell cameras!

Last week on the phone someone wanted the arts and crafts department.

Because photography and scrapbooks go well together, we have scrapbook supplies too. We have about 100 racks of paper, each rack holds 30 different papers, after an hour in the store, one lady came up to the desk "I need some help" No problem, how can we help? "I just can't seem to find the paper"

A phone call, "Do you carry scrapbook supplies?" Yes, we do. "Do you have green paper?" Yes, alot of green papers. "Do you have the one with the stripes?" We have alot of green papers with stripes..."Well, that's no help!"

My manager got a phone call,
"If I mail you my film, can you mail it back to me? I live far away and I can't always drive in there for my developing" my manager said yes, he could try to work something out, where did she live? "I live in________, it's so far." My manager said, Oh, I have an employee who lives in your town she drives to work everyday... (implying that a 20 minute drive isn't bad.)
"Oh, how nice will she pick up my film?"

 

[CajunDixie]

I've had people call to ask about their bills, I'll give them all the information they need then they'll ask "Is there an adult there that can help me now?" OR "Is your mom there so I can ask her if Medicare really will pay my bill?" Ahhhhhh no people there are no adults here I'm just skipping school today and playing around in this office.

I once had an insurance company call and ask if I had the patient's signature on file because I did not fill in that box on the claim. I pulled the file out and saw that the patient was DOA! I explained the patient had died...she then asked if we had acquired the signature before they died! I said no sorry we got it afterwards.

 

[Caropooh]

I work at a book store. I had a man come in last week and ask me where non-fiction was. I asked him exactly what type of non-fiction he was looking for. He says he doesn't really know, maybe like if Ted Kennedy wrote a book on what America is like today. Ahhh, you want Current Affairs! Let me take you to that section, I responded!

 

[Linnie The Pooh]

These are so funny.

I used to teach kindergarten and I was asked some funny (not stupid) questions by my kids. One day I was trying to explain that they needed to take coats outside at recess b/c a cold wind was blowing and one kid asked me if I was going to take my coat too. I explained that I didn't bring my coat. I said, "When I left for school, it wasn't windy outside." One little girl's eyes nearly bugged out of her head and she said so surprised-like, "Mrs. M, where do you go to school at???"

Another time we were walking down the hall and the boy line leader tucked his hand into mine and looked so lovingly into my eyes and asked me, "So, Mrs. M, do you have a job??" I didn't explain that teaching was my job. I just couldn't shatter that image he had of teachers not working!

I used to work in a video store and we got asked a lot by people if they could have their money back b/c they rented a movie, watched it and didn't like it and wanted something else. Oh, sure, we catered to people's tastes.