# Customer service gets creepy **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 26, 2006, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customer-service-gets-creepy/354250 "2006-04-26T04:22:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customer-service-gets-creepy/354250/21 "2006-04-27T01:17:22Z")
[QUOTE=Ogre] Wait. I’m flummoxed. **Smeghead** hadn’t posted to the thread before he said. Had he? He sure succeeded in confusing me, though. 😕 [/QUOTE] As I was reading this thread, I was thinking to myself, “Self, I can post that line about the knife and confuse everyone.” Then I saw that Cervaise beat me to it, so I posted my reaction to that particular setback. I hope that clarifies matters. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customer-service-gets-creepy/354250/22 "2006-04-27T01:19:02Z")
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. If it helps, I still don’t know what the hell the line means. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customer-service-gets-creepy/354250/23 "2006-04-27T01:24:49Z")
[QUOTE=zoid] Your scrotum’s on your face!? :eek: [/QUOTE] You just made my whole damn day. Good god that was funny. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customer-service-gets-creepy/354250/24 "2006-04-27T01:51:11Z")
[QUOTE=Ogre] Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. If it helps, I still don’t know what the hell the line means. 😛 [/QUOTE] So at least I can take comfort that people are being confused. ---
**Author:** ![SCSimmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@SCSimmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCSimmons)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customer-service-gets-creepy/354250/25 "2006-04-27T02:17:29Z")
[QUOTE=Ogre] Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. If it helps, I still don’t know what the hell the line means. 😛 [/QUOTE] Old Monty Python sketch. (I guess all Python sketches are old now, by definition … but anyway.) Summary: customer at a five-star restaurant brings a dirty fork to his waiter’s attention. Hiliarity ensues as the waiter, maitre d’, manager, and head chef exhibit increasingly bizarre over-reactions to the discovery, culminating in the suicide of the manager (stabbing himself with the fork), as the waiter holds back the cleaver-wielding chef from dismembering the customer for driving the manager over the brink. Then the scene is interrupted by a large announcement: “And now, the punchline:” … Eh, never mind. I guess you had to be there. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customer-service-gets-creepy/354250/26 "2006-04-27T04:00:59Z")
I agree with the folks saying this sounds like Asian customer service uber-courtesy. There’s a (possibly urban legend) story about a Chinese publisher whose rejection slips basically read, “We were delighted with your submission. Unfortunately, if we were to publish your manuscript, we would never be able to publish a book of equal quality again. Therefore we must reject it with our sincerest regrets.” ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customer-service-gets-creepy/354250/27 "2006-04-27T04:02:00Z")
And I did search on Snopes for that, but there’s nothing that I could find searching on “Chinese rejection”. ---
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customer-service-gets-creepy/354250/28 "2006-04-27T17:51:43Z")
For those of you kept in suspense, I called the tech support people today and talked to a nice woman who sounded South Asian. It appears that the problem is my Linksys router - when my iMac is connected directly to the DSL modem, it’s fine, but I can’t get to [stltoday.com](http://stltoday.com) through my router for some reason. I reset it to factory settings and it’s still not working right. Anyone wanna bet where Linksys tech support is located? ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customer-service-gets-creepy/354250/29 "2006-04-27T18:35:50Z")
[QUOTE=SanibelMan] For those of you kept in suspense, I called the tech support people today and talked to a nice woman who sounded South Asian. It appears that the problem is my Linksys router - when my iMac is connected directly to the DSL modem, it’s fine, but I can’t get to [stltoday.com](http://stltoday.com) through my router for some reason. I reset it to factory settings and it’s still not working right. Anyone wanna bet where Linksys tech support is located? [/QUOTE] I’ve got a Linksys router and SBC DSL. Over the past three years they have played nicely together. However, the past six months or so, SBC seems to be having frequent “outages” in my area. Sometimes it’s out for two hours at a time. Those times when I have enough energy to withstand the trek through SBC’s voicemail tree, I call to ask what the dealio is and end up talking to some nice south asia lady who can do absolutely nothing to help me. No sweet emails are ever forthcoming though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customer-service-gets-creepy/354250.md?page=1)