Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Phone tag in Georgia

I swear. Someone has seriously got to teach these people how to use the phone. When you dial the wrong number, hitting redial, will likely result in the same. Wrong. Number. Also when the person on the other end of the phone call does not speak your language, continuing to talk in aforeign language will not change his mind to actually speak your language. To help clarify, let me give you and example of a series of phone calls I received from my friend at (899)751-394. (For those of you not in Georgia, that's +995-99-751-394. Feel free to give my friend a call. I hear skype is cheap.)

First call:
Me: Hello?
Him: Hallo?
Me: Hello?
Him: Hallo?
Me: I only speak english. Can I help you?
Him: Garmarjobat, goopity goop goop lots of Georgian here...
Me: I'm sorry, I don't speak Georgian, just English. Try again.
Him: (Lots of Georgian)
Me: Sorry, wrong number. (I hang up.)

10 seconds later. Same number. (Note: I've played this game before, so I'm getting better at it.)

Me: Domino's Pizza can I take your order, please?
Him: Vova? (more Georgian follows)
Me: Let me get that straight, you want a Pepperoni pizza and two cokes, is that right?
Him: Click. (finally)

10 seconds later. (Seriously, you can't type the number in that fast.)
Me: (Like Friend's) How you doin'?
Him: (Click -- I think he saw that episode.)

10 seconds later. (What does this guys seriously expect?)
Me: I still don't know Georgian. Wrong Number.
Him: Rattles off a huge line of Georgian.
Me: (Click)

10 seconds later. (This is costing him money by the way. Costs me nothing.)
Me: Sir, this is not your lucky number. You did not win the lottery. Calling again will not increase your chances.
Him: Click.
(FINALLY!!!!)


This happens ALL the time. And not just to me. I can't tell you how often I talk to people at work who complain about the same thing. None of us can figure out any explanation for why this would ever occur. It must be a Georgian thing.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

You need caller ID so he/she/it doesn't get lonely

Anonymous said...

Hahahaha! No delivery, DiGiorno! Oh wait... you probably don't speak Italian either!

-Becky

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