Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Multi - Use Napkins

So I get a call. Which is normal, since I do work in a call centre.

Yay! Internet tech support!

I'm talking with this old-ish man from Tennessee. He was transferred over to me from AOL. Now, this old-ish guy is a Comcast internet subscriber. Unfortunately for him, I work in the Earthlink powered by Comcast Department.
Different division of internet providers.
Well, the internet is still provided by Comcast, but the email and things is through Earthlink.
Now this sorta thing ain't new. AOL does this all the time.

So I says to the old-ish guy:
"Unfortunately , you've been transferred to Earthlink tech support."
Old-ish guy:
"Well, AOL gave me this number"
Moi:
"They have a habit of doing that." (or something to that affect)
To which the Old-ish guy responds:
"Yah, what do they know, they're Indian"
Ahh, ignorant racism. Isn't it grand.

Reminds me of the time when I went to Sals with a bunch of the fellas for some late night grub. We sat on the stools at the counter and ordered our food and milkshakes. The waitress comes around with our milkshakes and hands them out to the people who ordered them except for 1. The chocolate shake that I ordered.
The waitress turns to the cook who is native and asks her:
"Who does this shake go to?"
To which the native chef turns and points at me and says:
"The brown one for the brown one!"
I have the look of the subtle 'wtf!?'(or as some people tell me, the 'other' normal look), while Bro has a look of complete shock on his face. And as they all chuckle at this turn of events, Bro looks at me and wonders out loud:
"What are they gonna say when they bring you your cinnamon bun?,
Here's you cinnamon bun, you paki!?"
As we now amuse ourselves with this bit of knowledge, P.slam down the counter suggests making a turban out of a napkin so as not to confuse any of the workers at the lovely local spot known as Sals.

Ahhhh, the memories.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The White Man is always trying to keep us down.

Do what I do when confronted with racism, listin to polarslam's "Dis Can of Coke costs how much?" and than go and stab a Korean.