Conversation with check-out chick (CC):
CC: That woman always looks nice, doesn't she?
Me: Yes, she does.
CC: Such nice dresses. I used to have some pretty dresses like that, but I left them with someone in New Zealand and never got them back.
Me: Oh, did they make off with them?
CC: No. I left them with my ex's brother, and he had a very low opinion of women.
Me: I see. So you couldn't go back and get them?
CC: He thought all women were the same.
Me: I probably have quite a bad opinion of men.
CC (looks appraisingly at me): I'm sure your bad opinion of men couldn't be as bad as his bad opinion of women.
Me: I wouldn't be so sure.
CC (pauses): There are some good men out there. It's just a matter of finding them. My ex was a good man.
Me: Oh?
CC: It's just that we couldn't communicate.
Me: Well, that's pretty important.
CC: Yes, but really you want to meet your soul-mate, don't you?
Me: I guess we all do.
CC: I met my soul-mate once, but it was in the wrong place.
Me: Could I take out $100 on top of that?
CC: No. (pauses) Sorry, I'm just in a facetious mood today, as my mother would say.
Now that I've recorded that for e-posterity, it's back to infr*structure...
P.S. The flags on Anzac Hill here are flying at half-mast. I'm guessing that's in honour of the Victorian bushfire victims.
I have a great check out story like that too. You have reminded me not to ever let those things slip, but to write them down tout de suite.
I am trying to think less about fire this evening, but yes, the flag on the top of the Exhibition building was halfmast this afternoon, and people were stopping to photograph it.
Posted by: genevieve | February 09, 2009 at 08:02 PM
Did you get your $100 cash out?
It's hard to say infrastructure in the Australian way - infrafuckingstructure - gets to frucking.
Posted by: Francis Xavier Holden | February 10, 2009 at 11:52 AM
El, that Call Centre Confidential blog is insane. Are you sure it's not really the script development for The Office?
Posted by: genevieve | February 11, 2009 at 06:52 PM
F*cking hilarious. But I fail to see why she would leave the dresses with her exes brother, unless of course, he wanted to wear them, which presumably he didn't as CC didn't mention that he was a cross-dresser.
Posted by: Dinana | February 18, 2009 at 01:02 PM