A short story about a weird customer. I work at a call centre that sells discounted electronics. I am employed to answer calls as well as emails from customers.
One morning I get into work and see 3 emails from a customer with a very strange email address. It was something similar to “BigDaddy” and some numbers. I show the emails to my colleagues to laugh about and then assign the emails to myself, because I like the strange and funny customers.
In all three emails he is urgently requesting we cancel his order of a chest freezer booked for the next day. I begin to cancel the order and draft my reply. As I’m working on the emails I get the first call of the morning and it’s none other than big daddy himself.
Customer: Hi my name is ___ and I have an order for a freezer tomorrow I need to urgently cancel.
Me: Sure I can do that for you no problem.
Customer: Sorry, I’ve made a really silly mistake. You see, to cut a long story short, I was going to use the freezer as an ice bath. I just checked over the specifications again and my height and it’s too short for me to lay in.
Me: …….. ok …….. no problem. That was the largest freezer we currently have so I’ll just cancel and refund the order.
Customer: As easy as that? Thank you, I’ll be recommending your company to others.
The call ended there and we never heard from him again. My colleagues and I spent the rest of the day postulating about why this man needed this freezer.
If it was for an ice bath couldn’t he have just made some ice then emptied it into his bath? Never has anyone ever called us about sitting in their freezer. The only thing we could think of was that he may have been storing some unwilling deceased human participants. If anyone has any other ideas that would be great.
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