Wayne Owens: “Hello!”

Customer: “Hi, I am on holiday…..”

WO: *interrupting* “You phoned up to tell us you’re on holiday? that’s a bit of a Dick move isn’t it?”

C: “What?? No I’m on Holiday at the minute……”

WO: *Interrupting again* “So you thought you would phone us to rub it in, thanks…”

C: “but…”

WO: *Interrupting and speaking to DemonPengu who was in the room* “Hey, this is great, he’s phoned up just to boast he is on holiday the git!!”

C: “No i didn’t….”

DP: “Who is it?”

WO: *To DP* “X from X”

C: “hello???? I’m still here”

DP: *speaking loudly at the phone* “GIT!!!”

C: “hey, I’m on holiday but customers keep phoning”

WO: “They do that.”

C: “Yes, it’s annoying”

WO: “Yes it is, you are trying to do something and they keep phoning you, and they are always whining about some trivial thing or another”

C: “exactly. it’s very annoying…….” *Pauses as he realises in this conversation he is the whining customer* “err, anyway they have broke their emails, can you disable SPF checks for them for now”

WO: “Not a problem, just drop the request to us on an email, we need a paper trail”

C: “But I’m on holiday? everything’s shut down for xmas, can’t you just do it.”

WO: “Yes, as soon as I get an email request I can do it.”

C: “Come on, don’t be an arse”

WO: “says the guy who phoned us to boast he was on holiday”

*INSERT 10 minutes general grumbling as he goes to turn on his home computer, logs into his work account to send the request all the time insulting me*

C: “Right, I sent the bloody request, when will you be able to do the change?”

WO: “Oh that, I did it 15 minutes ago when you first asked.”

C: “AAAAARRRRRSEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!”

CN: “Happy Holidays!”

Dear Constant Reader I should point out that the customer in this conversation is one who often laughs and jokes around with us here, and often phones me for advice/help with his personal engineering/electronic/computing projects.