May 8th: Official Crazy Day : Texxors.com

May 8th: Official Crazy Day

May 10, 2007 Posted by Liz in : Humor , trackback, Email this post

When you work at a tech help desk of a large electronics store, you meet a lot of… interesting people. Why is it, when one crazy person shows up, they all decide to follow? It’s like they travel in packs or something.

Story #1

Me: Hi, how can I help you?

Extremely Annoying Valley Girl Chick: My laptop, like, totally stops working when it’s not plugged in.

Me: Yes, it seems it has no battery. Have to have that in, if you want to run off of, say, battery power.

EAVGC: That big thing? It makes my laptop too heavy. I don’t want to put it in! Just give me a laptop that doesn’t need a battery to run.

She was serious. She wanted me to take her old, stickered laptop and hand her a perfectly good laptop that ran on starlight and dreams. She actually stood there with her hands out and pushed her old one towards me.

As usual, I did the only responsible thing.

Me: Someone in Computers should be able to help you.

Story #2

Next, an older guy, not really elderly, but getting there, came to me with his brand new desktop.

Guy: Dosen’t work.

Me: Ok let me check it out.

I plugged it in, worked fine.

Me: Seems to work OK, are you sure you had all the connections plugged in securely?

Guy: No, I just plugged in the power. Thought that was all. I don’t want a computer with so many wires. Fix this so I don’t have to plug those things in.

Me: Ok, go ahead and head over to customer service and return this, and then head to Computers and tell them you want something called an “iMac.”

Guy: So you can’t fix it?

Me: I’m afraid it’s broken beyond repair sir.

Guy: Well, OK.

Story #3

So I’m bored for like, an hour. I begin surfing the web on the computer with my back turned to the counter, but I should be able to see anyone walk up as they will have to pass a point in my eyesight.

This lady went all the way around and snuck up from behind me, but I saw her. I began to closeÂ browsers as she approached, but when reaching the counter she said,

Lady: How long am I gonna have to stand here and be ignored?

Me: Sorry ma’am I was just closing down everything, I had a bit of research to do.

Lady: Well do it on your own time, not on mine. I want to speak to your manager, NOW!

She was calm until the “now,” where she suddenly freaked out and her eyes seemed to bulge from her head.

Me: Ok, so I can explain the situation, can I ask why?

I assumed she had received prior bad service or it was about a defective product.

Lady:Â About you standing there making me wait 20 minutes before you would even talk to me

What?

Me: I did see you come up, you couldn’t have waited more than a few seconds, but I’ll go get –

Lady: Excuse me but did you just talk back to me? I don’t need any of your sass little girl, just get me your manager so I can get you fired.

Me: mmm’k

Me (over store paging system): Security to the precinct please, security to the precinct

She then ran, and I recognized her as Crazy Lady from before! (This time her hair was done and she didn’t smell funny.) I suspect she might have been back for her AC adapter and purse. We still have both, which are kept in the back room so they don’t smell up the place.

All in all, a fun day, but please, if you’re crazy, we have a limit of 3 per day, so please notify us in advance that you are crazy, so we can better accommodate your needs.

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