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Join Date: Mar 22, 1999 - 1:00 am
Posts: 82
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>The following are actual stories provided by travel agents:
>
>I had someone ask for an aisle seat so that their hair wouldn't
>get messed up by being near the window.
>
>I got a call from a woman who wanted to go to Capetown. I started
>to explain the length of the flight and the passport information then
>she interrupted me with, "I'm not trying to make you look stupid,
>but Capetown is in Massachusetts." Without trying to make her
>look like the stupid one, I calmly explained, "Cape Cod is in
>Massachusetts, Capetown is in Africa." Her response ... click.
>
>A man called, furious about a Florida package we did. I asked what
>was wrong with the vacation in Orlando. He said he was expecting an
>ocean-view room. I tried to explain that is not possible, since
>Orlando is in the middle of the state. He replied, "Don't lie to me.
>I looked on the map, and Florida is a very thin state."
>
>I got a call from a man who asked, "Is it possible to see England
>from Canada?" I said, "No." He said, "But they look so close on the map."
>
>Another man called and asked if he could rent a car in Dallas.
>When I pulled up the reservation, I noticed he had a 1-hour lay-over
>in Dallas. When I asked him why he wanted to rent a car, he said,
>"I heard Dallas wasa big airport, and I need a car to drive between
>the gates to save time."
>
>A nice lady just called. She needed to know how it was possible
>that her flight from Detroit left at 8:20am and got into Chicago at
>8:33am.
>I tried to explain that Michigan was an hour ahead of Illinois, but she
>could not understand the concept of time zones. Finally, I told her
>the plane went very fast, and she bought that!
>
>A woman called and asked, "Do airlines put your physical
>description on your bag so they know who's luggage belongs to who?
>" I said,"No, why do you ask?" She replied, "Well, when I checked in
>with the airline, they put a tag on my luggage that said FAT, and I'm
>overweight, is there any connection?"
>After putting her on hold for a minute while I "looked into it"
>(I was actually laughing) I came back and explained the city code
>for Fresno is
>FAT, and that the airline was just putting a destination tag on her
>luggage.
>
> Part II
>
>A client called in inquiring about a package to Hawaii. After
>going over all the cost info, she asked, "Would it be cheaper
>to fly to California and then take the train to Hawaii?"
>
>I just got off the phone with a man who asked, "How do I know
>which plane to get on?" I asked him what exactly he meant, which
>he replied, "I was told my flight number is 823, but none of these
>darn planes have numbers on them."
>
>A woman called and said, "I need to fly to Pepsi-cola on one of
>those computer planes." I asked if she meant to fly to Pensacola
>on a commuter plane. She said, "Yeah, whatever."
>
>A business man called and had a question about the documents he
>needed in order to fly to China. After a lengthy discussion about
>passports, I reminded him he needed a visa.
>"Oh no I don't, I've been to China many times and never had to
>have one of those." I double checked and sure enough, his stay
>required a visa. When I told him this he said, "Look, I've
>been to China four times and every time they have accepted my
>American Express."
>
>A woman called to make reservations, "I want to go from Chicago
>to Hippopotamus, New York" The agent was at a loss for words.
>Finally, the agent: "Are you sure that's the name of the town?"
>"Yes, what flights do you have?" replied the customer. After
>some searching, the agent came back with, "I'm sorry, ma'am,
>I've looked up every airport code in the country and can't find a
>Hippopotamus anywhere." The customer retorted, "Oh don't
>be silly. Everyone knows where it is. Check your map!" The
>agent scoured a
>map of the state of NewYork and finally offered, "You don't mean
>Buffalo,: do you?" "That's it! I knew it was a big animal!"
>
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