it’s all about tone

[marcicat]

I had to choke back laughter at work today at this exchange:

Coworker 1: Phone call for you on line one.
Coworker 2: Yeah?
Coworker 1: It’s one of your *customers.*

To fully appreciate that, you have to picture someone roughly the age of the Queen of England, saying “one of your customers” in the same way one might say “(paint me like) one of your french girls.” You would think we weren’t a perfectly respectable retail establishment, where nearly all of the calls are, in fact, from customers.

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