On a lighter note, a call one of my colleagues took recently:
Caller: I’ve got a chilli in my vagina!
Call taker: Um. Okay. What’s the address we’re coming to?
Caller: No… I just wanted some advice.
We’re not actually allowed to give advice over the phone but on this occasion my colleague thought this was less like advice and more like Stating The Bleeding Obvious…
Call taker: Well, my advice is to take the chilli out of your vagina. And some more good advice is not to put chillis in your vagina. They are far better in curries.
Caller: Thank you!
Call taker: (firing up the psychiatric card just in case) Are you sure you don’t need an ambulance?
September 18th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
Can you imagine what a crew would have said if that had been sent down to them? They’d have gone for the laugh! lol
BTW Mark, you never wrote up the other jobs from your observation day with us…
September 18th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
I know! I wore myself writing up the suspended and getting involved in the ensuing flamewar in the comments and then had a bit of blogger’s block and never did it. I could do them now… or you could just take me out for another observation day now I have my blogging fingers back!
September 18th, 2007 at 9:14 pm
Advice? Don’t chew it!
September 19th, 2007 at 9:23 am
thankyou, now I have tea up my nose.
September 19th, 2007 at 10:19 pm
Should’ve asked her if she was hot…
September 20th, 2007 at 3:04 am
Mark…
This is the funniest thing I’ve heard in a long time…
I know you’ve mentioned crazy callers, but surely this one takes the cake? What would be the crazyest call you’ve taken yourself? Or that your work-mates have taken?
Ross (Perth, Western Australia)
September 20th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
I’m beginning to regret deleting my post on ‘things in funny places’ jobs….
Still think the degloved penis (with vacuum cleaner) was the best.
SD
September 20th, 2007 at 10:34 pm
Ouch! SD that sounds painfol!!!!!
September 20th, 2007 at 11:32 pm
Fair to say he had tears in his eyes. If he’d just switched it off instead of dragging it off………………………..
My legs are crossing just thinking of it.
SD
September 21st, 2007 at 12:27 pm
This was clearly a hoax call and should have been treated a such with the a visit from the constabulary for wasting time..
Anyway, the most likely reason she put the chilli there was…
Fill in the blank.
September 21st, 2007 at 12:39 pm
ecparamedic
Of course you don’t chew it.
Chilli doesn’t go with tuna.
September 23rd, 2007 at 10:33 am
SD, That’s half a story; can you redraft your post please!
October 6th, 2007 at 2:09 pm
It’s incredible what some people do…
Makes me think of the Weird Al Yanvokic song, “Weenie in a Bottle”…
Regards
Nick
http://nickhough.blogspot.com