WTF?!! Weird questions I’ve been asked at work
Today a friend of mine asked me what the strangest thing I’ve ever been asked at work, and that got me thinking. The first thing that came to mind was the trio of early-twenties guys who wanted me to request that the cruise line seat them at the same dinner table as “young hot girls, not old people” (not guaranteed, but the reservations agent at Royal Caribbean was laughing her ass off). Or the guy who wanted me to fake a reciept so that his wife wouldn’t accidentally see he was taking his mistress with him to Disneyland (of all places. Really? Nothing turns people on like a giant mouse, apparently). Didn’t do that one. Minor legal reasons.
Then it came to me: To find a non-smoking city in Europe.
Yep, I said city. As in whole freakin’ place. That’s like finding a cow with air brakes, it just ain’t gonna happen. This is Europe, people. Everyone smokes. Infants come out of the womb with a filter tip and a Bic. A client of mine even picked where to eat dinner by how much smoke was spilling out the door, because if there was lots, it was a popular place and the food had to be good!
Once I got past the “wow, did that make sense in your head before you said it out loud?” factor, I found a non-smoking hotel and an Irish town (you’d think after all that I’d remember what it was called, but I don’t) that banned indoor smoking. Afterwards the clients had no complaints, but it’s been years and I’m still shaking my head at that one.
Ah, well, it could have been worse, like the time I lost a client…
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