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[Scarygood]

The most commonly used one here in alabama is "dont worry he is just a big baby". Thats the customer talking about the very large pit pull or rott.......

Now that I am driving a international bucket (our utility uses international) the customers thinking im a power guy has only gotten way worse. One night on an outage I had a guy chase me down the street screaming so I stopped to see what was up and he stood at my window and cursed me up one side and down the other because his power had been out for about 4 hours. Thats when I looked him dead in the eyes and just point down at the door of the truck and just shook my head. Thats when I got the "O, my bad".

Gotta love the houses that only have 1 phone jack in use but 19 lines tied together in the crawl. Most of which are just laying cut in the crawl.

Havnt read this one.

A customer notices you up the pole and yells "your not cutting me off are you?" I always like to say I dont know did you pay the bill? They usually go running in the house to check and see if they paid it.

[tdh79]

amnava2, on 17 August 2009 - 02:48 PM, said:

this one was funny "You sure my line isn't tapped? The government has been trying to keep track of me for years and I swear I can hear them"

One customer i had when I was an apprentice was convinced that the unused roll of grounding cable left in his basement was the electrical company`s way of surveilling his house, said it was rolled that way to function as an antenna:)
He was also sure that the avalanche nets that was mounted in the mountainside down the road was the governments way of hearing all that was said in that local area, not just a way to prevent another fatal avalanche/accident:)

Please excuse my bad english:)

[lastcenturytel]

There is nothing for you to excuse. Your english is perfect. In fact it is better than a large percentage of kids who graduate from school in the United States.

[CATVLineman]

The best one is when I go to a house for a service call go to the modem or digital box and find a gold plated two way with screw on fitting or push on jumpers and I asked who did this and they say "Your guy did that when he was here" I hate being lied to it pisses me off