I’m working at a facility, which closes at 7pm on Sundays. A customer calls around 6pm. Conversation goes as follows:
Customer: “What time do you close tonight?”
Me: “We actually close at 7pm, in an hour..”
Customer: “Hmmm, hah, really?!.. at 7, really?”
Me: “Yes, that is the case.”
Customer: “Hmmm, serious? Hmmm, well, so you close at 7?”
Me: “Yes..”
No, I’m only joking you idiots, I’m just saying we close early, so you don’t come in and I don’t have to see you dumb people..
This article appears in Jul 8-14, 2010.


should have pretended to be a recording and said sorry, we are closed doing repairs to our brains.
7pm? What kind of store is this? I thought most stores closed at 6pm on Sundays.