{"id":7313,"date":"2005-03-31T15:33:31","date_gmt":"2005-03-31T22:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/03\/31\/the-customer-is-always-um-never-mind.html"},"modified":"2005-03-31T15:33:31","modified_gmt":"2005-03-31T22:33:31","slug":"the_customer_is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/03\/31\/the_customer_is.html","title":{"rendered":"The customer is always … um … never mind"},"content":{"rendered":"

A woman, unable to get her Western BBQ Burger made the way it was supposed to be made, and tired and cranky and with a car full of kids just out of Tae Kwan Do class, calls 911.<\/em><\/p>\n

Yes, the emergency <\/em>phone number for reporting life-threatening stuff<\/em>. And it wasn’t even that eating too many Western BBQ Burgers will threaten your life — it was that she wanted the cops to come down there <\/em>and do <\/em>something about it, dagnabbit! Like, make them give her the burger she ordered! Dagnabbit!<\/p>\n

And now I present an award for the calmest, most adult 911 operator you can imagine<\/a>:<\/p>\n

O: Then I suggest you get your money back and go somewhere else. This, this is not a criminal issue. We can’t go out there and make them make you a cheeseburger the way you want it.
\nB: Well … that is, that, you’re supposed to be here to protect me.
\nO: Well, what are we protecting you from, a wrong cheeseburger?
\nB: No, it’s —
\nO: Is this a harmful cheeseburger or something? I don’t understand what you want us to do.
\nB: Well — just come down here, I’m not leaving!
\nO: No ma’am, I’m not sending the deputies down there over a cheeseburger! You need to go in there and act like an adult, and either get your money back, and go home.<\/p>\n

I expect to hear about a law suit filed against the 911 operator, and the sheriff’s department, and Burger King, over all this, but, damn, how nice is it to hear someone actually advocating taking responsibility for your own life?<\/em><\/p>\n

I’d almost think this a hoax, except that the sound file<\/a> sounds absolutely authentic …<\/p>\n

(via Kevin Drum<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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