Picked Up The Wrong Fare
A couple of decades ago (maybe more than a couple), I used to work for a car rental company.
Manager: “[Coworker] is going to be late coming back.”
Me: “Didn’t he go pick up a customer who was dropping off their car at [Autobody Shop]? What happened?”
Manager: “He picked up the customer standing out front and made it halfway back to the office before… uh… he realized it wasn’t the customer.”
Me: “Oh, wow. So, some random person just got into the car with him?”
Manager: “Not random. Let’s just say he figured out she wasn’t the customer when she started giving him her… uh… hourly rate.”
[Coworker] finally got back to the office, late, embarrassed, and with a story we would never let him live down.
