customers is funny

[Conrad Hoffsommer]

carlteplitski wrote:
> Had a customer telling me how to find his place .  Go down ----- street 
> to the exit , and drive 3 miles
> till you get to ------- road. Down this road for 2 miles, turn left at 
> that intersection. go 1 mile to the next
> intersection and turn left at the corner where the church " used " to 
> be. What's there now, I asked. Don't know,
> I never go that way   !!!   I could have puked on my shoes.  It's funny 
> now, but not then.
> 
> Carl / Winnipeg.


It's also fun when you don't speak the local language... I'm originally 
from the Philly area, but for a while was tuning out of a store in Sioux 
Falls.

I recall heading for a tuning, armed with directions starting with, 
"head west from the blinking light in town until you get to the third 
blacktop, turn left, etc...."   I think I went 20 miles before I 
realized that "blacktop" meant ANY paved road. I'd passed a number of 
gravel and concrete paved roads, but no asphalt. I had to backtrack to 
the light and start over...


-- 
Conrad Hoffsommer
Ever striving to confirm the Peter Principle...