So I’m calling a medical office to have them check some records for me. And they ask me my birthdate.
“10-29-61”
“Nineteen sixty one?”
I was so tempted to say no and see what her next guess was going to be.
Maybe the line was muffled and it sounded like either “fifty one” or “sixty one”, so they wanted to make sure…
Not beyone the realms of possibility.
Yes, I’m guessing it was the '61 part she was verifying, and she just asked it as the whole year. Unless she specifically said “***Nineteen ***sixty-one?” with that emphasis on the first part.
So, I guess this makes this Stupid Threads: June 2009 Edition, instead.
I just popped in to ask if this was the thread for stupid questions?
Is this thread about stupid questions?
No, this is abuse… Stupid questions is down the hall, first door on the right.
Stupid git.
Euphonious, Philster, beowulff, you’re all wrong. Try to keep up–this is Stupid Threads.
To be perfectly clear - this is Stupid Threads 09.
Nineteen oh nine?
Zero nine.
The other day I was in the break room, putting a filter in the basket and tearing open the packet and emptying into the filter.
A coworker walked in and asked “Making coffee?”
I was really tempted to say “No. You mean this isn’t how you prepare coq au vin?”
Um… here’s your sign?
It seems in ANY fast food chain, the workers are from Stepford. It always goes like this:
Me: May I have combo #1, medium, with a diet coke for here.
Fast Food Clerk: What size?
Me: Medium
FFC: What kind of drink?
Me: Diet Coke
FFC: For here or to go?
Me: For here.
Sheesh, maybe they gotta stop training with videotapes.
Me: I need to schedule my recheck. They asked me to come 2 weeks from my last appointment, but we’re moving out of state on the 27th so I need an appointment on the morning of the 27th.
Her: Ok, lemme look at your file… It looks like 2 weeks from your last appointment will be the 30th. We have appointment times at 10 and 2pm.
Me: Yeah, but we’re moving out of town on the 27th, so I need an appointment for that morning.
Her: Oh, I’m sorry, but we don’t do rechecks on Saturdays and the 27th is a Saturday. What other days would work for you?
Me: What have you got available near then?
Her: You could come on the 30th.
Me: <strained> We are moving out of town on the 27th. What do you have before the 27th?
Her: Oh, ok, how about the 26th?
Me: Perfect.
Her: Ok. Now, have you applied for our Frequent Visitor’s Discount card?
Me: You mean the one for people who live in the area and are ever going to use your office again? No. No, I have not applied. No, I don’t want it. I hate you. Good bye.
Customer calling about bill: You better speak English, I don’t want to talk to any foreign people. Where is this call center.
Me: We’re in Idaho, ma’am.
ccab: See I don’t even know where that is.
Me: Idaho is between Montana and Oregon.
ccab: So you’re Canada then.
Me: Yes southern Canada ma’am.:rolleyes:
Actually she did. It was “Nineteen sixty one?” not “Nineteen sixty one?” or “Nineteen sixty one?”
I generally give out my birthdate the way twenty-first century computerized forms want it entered: dd-mm-yyyy
Maybe she wanted to get you speak the “18-” loudly so she’d be able tell the story of “Oldest Living Correctional Worker Yells Call.”
groan
A few months ago I was giving my medical history to a nurse at new doctor’s office:
Nurse: Do you currently take any prescription medication?
Me: Yes. I take two for high blood pressure and 1 for high cholesterol.
Nurse: Have you had surgery in the past year?
Me: No.
Nurse: Have you ever had high blood pressure?
Me: No! Why would you even ask a question like that?