That's usually accompanied by the old question, "What's the most you ever been shocked by?", to which I typially respond, "Why don't you tell me about the time you could have died first?"POWER_PIG said:How bout this one........your minding your own business, just doing your job and some smart ass sneaks up behind you ( usually a customer) and says "bzzzzzzzzzzzzt" LOL!! Id like to have a miniature air horn and keep it my tool pouch and just blast em'
Because they're imagining things. That just doesn't happen.The Iceman said:I had a costomer on a service call ask "why is it when I'm doing dishes and I flip the counter light switch with wet hands I get shocked"
This is my ALL TIME favorite. I must admit, when I was a novice and worked for someone else I fell for this numerous times. Nowadays when I hear this I look at it as a red flag and I walk the other way. This has NEVER worked out where I (or my employer) got more business.mdshunk said:Give me a good price on this one, and I've got some other projects in mind.
goldstar said:I had one customer (and BTW a friend of the family) tell me after dunning him for payment for 2 months that he doesn't get to the post office to mail out payments more than once a month. Meanwhile the PO is around the corner from him. Then he says "Come by and pick up the check". (he lives 65 miles away). Needless to say I drove out and picked up the check and now I haven't seen him in 10 years.
Minuteman said:Customer calls back:
"The toaster (or microwave, or plasma TV, or ceiling fan, etc) just quit working after you replaced that security light bulb (or fuse in a A/C disconnect, or a main breaker, or a GFCI in the bathroom, etc)."
Implying that you should warranty their appliance after a small service call on something totally unrelated.
acrwc10 said:1) My husband is an electrical engineer, but he didn't have time to do this work on our house.....
drbond24 said:A man after my own heart. My wife also doesn't know that being an electrical engineer doesn't make me in any way qualified to actually DO anything. :grin: "I'm too busy" always sounds better than "Actually honey, I don't know how to do that." :wink:
Hey, I do that to my guys! You mean it's not funny? :-?POWER_PIG said:How bout this one........your minding your own business, just doing your job and some smart ass sneaks up behind you ( usually a customer) and says "bzzzzzzzzzzzzt" LOL!!
I say that, too. Now, that's gotta be funny!mdshunk said:And if I had a nickel for every time someone said, "...and let there be light".