Tuesday, December 19, 2006

I love a good laugh...espcially when it's on me!

First this pic has nothing to do with the story. BUT, for all the times it was said, there would NEVER be a WHITE CHRISTMAS, in south Texas, on the Gulf coast......Here's to THE God doing whatever He pleases, to bless! Two years ago we got our white Christmas, with 2 feet of snow...impossible..... I don't think so.... very unlikely, yeah, but it happened! Now to the story about Christmas shopping orders!

My sister has a gift store (for 17+ years). It's a very special store that ladies LOVE to go to. When relatives visit, from out of town, they tell their folks they want to come to her store, while they are in the area. Her toll free number gets routed to my home, since her store gets very busy. So I take any questions someone may have, etc. (some may be about internet orders).
So a few days ago, I get a call for a "Mrs. Very Famous Family USA" name to place an order (it was a man placing the order....I just thought he was placing it for his wife, or something like that). I asked if the name was with "1 certain letter or 2". He said one, sounding like what kind of idiot didn't know how to spell their name. The deal is, that I lived in South Texas for over 20 years, and there was a whole family of ranchers with the same name with "1 certain letter" in it. And THEY had a whole county NAMED after them (never mind that the county had way more cows than people). I wasn't going to make fun of this fella', and say something like hey just like the famous "so and so's". At this point, I never really thought it could possibly be the REAL famous ones. So I keep plugging along, asking for his address, and as my pen is skipping out, I have to ask him to spell the address a couple of times, etc ( by now the guy's got the be thinking what idiot have I called up?). As we get near the end he informs me that he is her personal assistant, and to be sure to send this, attention to "Mrs. Very Famous Person USA". It wasn't until then that everything suddenly hit me. The name, address, and PERSONAL ASSISTANT were indicators that either this was THE family, or we were being scammed. I thanked him for the order and hung up.
I cracked up laughing, thinking if he was the real deal, he must've thought he had just got of the phone with the biggest idiot from "Podunk, Texas," and what was he doing giving his CC info out to her. But then I thought if he is the real deal, he didn't have to worry about his CC. If there was any wrong doings on our end, they could hunt us down in a flash. My sister's first response was...oh this has to be a scam. I looked up the address he gave me. You could get a virtual reality tour online of their home.....but then anyone could look that up and get that info. I didn't get all the info my sister needed for the order, so I told her she could call him back. I said I made a big enough idiot of myself the first time, asking him to respell everything. It looks like it is the real family. I laughed so much at myself, wondering if that guy thought there could be people that uneducated, in civilization, that has never heard of this family. But then again, many claim that Texas is not civilized! Merry Christmas!

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