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    Must Be That Time Of The Month

    | Toronto, ON, Canada | Bizarre, Funny Names

    (A customer calls in to order tickets.)

    Me: “Thank you for calling [theater], how can I help you?”

    Caller: “I need to order tickets to see your show!”

    Me: “Alright then, and which show were you looking for?”

    Caller: “You mean there’s more than one?!”

    Me: “That’s right, we have 6 shows in our season, and 12 from people who rent our space.”

    Caller: “Well, I don’t like that many choices!”

    Me: “I’m sorry about that, ma’am. Maybe we can narrow it down. Would you like to see one of our current shows or something within the month?”

    Caller: “What Month is this?!”

    Me: “It’s January.”

    Caller: “No, I don’t like January! What else is there?”

    Me: *pause* “February?”

    Caller: “Hmm. February. FEB-ruary. F-F-F-Feb. No, I don’t like that either!”

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    Translation Is No Small Feat

    | Alabama, USA | Language & Words

    Me: “Hi, thank you for calling [supermarket]. How can I help you?”

    Customer: “Hey, can I speak to someone in the ladies wear department?”

    Me: “That’d be me. How can I help you?”

    Customer: “I bought some scrubs at another store and I was wondering what the ‘S/CH’ on the tag means?”

    Me: “It means it’s a small.”

    Customer: “But what does the ‘CH’ mean?”

    Me: “It’s the Spanish abbreviation for small.”

    Customer: “But ‘CH’; isn’t that American?”

    Me: “The letters C and H are used in a lot of different languages, including Spanish.”

    Customer: “Oh, how strange!”

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    Should Have Gone For (M)Academia

    | California, USA | Extra Stupid, Food & Drink

    Customer: “What’s in the White Chocolate Macadamia cookie?”

    Me: “White chocolate and macadamias.”

    Customer: “Oh, duh,. That was a stupid question.”

    Me: “It’s okay, people ask me all the time what kind of nuts are in the ‘Chocolate Almond Joy’.”

    Customer: “Oh yeah, ha ha! Walnuts!”

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    Overly Essaying The Situation

    | Atlanta, GA, USA | Crazy Requests

    Me: “What can I help you with today, sir?”

    Customer: “Well for starters, you can talk to that girl at the front desk. She made me fill out so much paperwork!”

    Me: “I’m sorry. She must have been mistaken. Can you show me the forms you were asked to complete?”

    Customer: “No. I don’t have them.”

    Me: *confused* “Where are they?”

    (The man proceeds to lead me to the front desk and gestures at the sign-in sheet where visitors are asked to write their name and zip code.)

    Customer: “This! She made me write all this!”

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    Cutting Down Credit Fraud

    | Managua, Nicaragua | Liars & Scammers, Money

    Me: “Thank you for calling [bank], how can I help you?”

    Caller: “Hey man! I got some fraudulent charges on my credit card.”

    Me: “Ok sir, I understand let me help you report this.”

    Caller: “Don’t worry son, I already took care of it.”

    Me: “So you already called to report it?”

    Caller: “No son, I cut my credit card in thousands of pieces. Now I need a new one.”

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