A Complaint Sixty-Five Million Years In The Making, Part 2
I work at a natural history museum, and a guest approaches me outside the dinosaur exhibit. They have their child with them.
Guest: “Where can I find real dinosaurs? These are all stupid robots.”
I ignore the insult directed toward our expensive and impressive animatronic dinosaurs.
Me: “The main auditorium contains real dinosaur fossils and even some fossilized dinosaur eggs!”
Guest: “No, I mean the real living ones! Like in Jurassic Park.”
Oh, boy…
Me: “Dinosaurs are all extinct.”
Guest: “Since when?”
Me: “For… sixty-six million years, give or take.”
Guest: “Oh. Did we do that?”
Me: “Most scientists agree that an asteroid did that.”
Guest: “Scientists, eh? The same scientists that told us to get those vaccines and s***. No, thanks.”
I open my mouth to counter, but then I figure it’s best not to argue with someone who has convinced themselves that a paleontologist and a virologist are both wrong because… “science”.
Guest: “How do we know it wasn’t a vaccine that made them extinct?”
Guest’s Son: “A vaccine… against an asteroid?”
Guest: “Well… it could have happened!”
Guest’s Son: “Dad… are you having a stroke?”
I’m glad it wasn’t me that said it!
Question of the Week
Have you ever served a bad customer who got what they deserved?
