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saint_monkey) wrote2003-12-20 08:42 pm
saint_monkey) wrote2003-12-20 08:42 pm
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this guy i work with. he's a big guy, kinda looks a little like a shorter, chunkyier, danny glover, but he doesn't sound like him. got a real big voice. name is Ira.
"I.R.A."
He spells it to customers on the phone. But when he first introduced himself, it was "Call me BIG I." I got to know Ira in about a minute intervals in between calls, long enough to get a tiny bit or factoid, but never the whole story. To sum it up, he partied a lot in the seventies, claims to have met Andy Warhol, and doesn't have a very good home life. He has a son whom he doesn't get along with, and a daughter that he adores, but not enough to not work 20 plus OT hours per week.
Ira sometimes sings when the calls go dead. He gets bored. He only sings the same song ... "Chances Are." But he only ever sings the first line, and he does this at least thirty times in an evening, until one of the grumpy call center supes tells him to stop...
"Chances are... because you wear a silly grin..."
"IRA!"
"Whups! Heh Heh!...(then he gets a call...) GOOOOOD Evening, Thankyaforbankingatcommacebank this is Ira... no, IRA, I..R..A.. Ira."
You can tell when the call is over, because
"Chances are... Because you wear a sill ... GOOOOOD Evening, Thankyaforbanking..."
Now we got a new guy, as yet unidentified, that is whistling the Intro to Guns-N-Roses "Patience" whenever it gets slow. He never gets more than about ten notes before he must stop to answer the phone.
He must never gets closure because as soon as his call ends, he starts in on it again. Forever locked in a struggle with the late 80's. I kinda wish I knew which guy it was, cause then i could buy him the casette. He could play it in his Camaro while he brushes his mullet and combs his unkempt dirty blonde moustache. Or at least he can imagine the Mullet and messy moustache, our company's dress code prohibit both.
Anyhow, Ira must be jealous of the Whistling GNR guy, because right after he starts up, Ira kicks in with
"chances are... because you wear a silly grin, whenever you come into view..." (for the purposes of this competition, Ira seems to have unveiled the second line of "Chances Are.")
and they have a bit of a competition until one of them has to get on the phone, or someone yells for them both to cut out the racket.
"I.R.A."
He spells it to customers on the phone. But when he first introduced himself, it was "Call me BIG I." I got to know Ira in about a minute intervals in between calls, long enough to get a tiny bit or factoid, but never the whole story. To sum it up, he partied a lot in the seventies, claims to have met Andy Warhol, and doesn't have a very good home life. He has a son whom he doesn't get along with, and a daughter that he adores, but not enough to not work 20 plus OT hours per week.
Ira sometimes sings when the calls go dead. He gets bored. He only sings the same song ... "Chances Are." But he only ever sings the first line, and he does this at least thirty times in an evening, until one of the grumpy call center supes tells him to stop...
"Chances are... because you wear a silly grin..."
"IRA!"
"Whups! Heh Heh!...(then he gets a call...) GOOOOOD Evening, Thankyaforbankingatcommacebank this is Ira... no, IRA, I..R..A.. Ira."
You can tell when the call is over, because
"Chances are... Because you wear a sill ... GOOOOOD Evening, Thankyaforbanking..."
Now we got a new guy, as yet unidentified, that is whistling the Intro to Guns-N-Roses "Patience" whenever it gets slow. He never gets more than about ten notes before he must stop to answer the phone.
He must never gets closure because as soon as his call ends, he starts in on it again. Forever locked in a struggle with the late 80's. I kinda wish I knew which guy it was, cause then i could buy him the casette. He could play it in his Camaro while he brushes his mullet and combs his unkempt dirty blonde moustache. Or at least he can imagine the Mullet and messy moustache, our company's dress code prohibit both.
Anyhow, Ira must be jealous of the Whistling GNR guy, because right after he starts up, Ira kicks in with
"chances are... because you wear a silly grin, whenever you come into view..." (for the purposes of this competition, Ira seems to have unveiled the second line of "Chances Are.")
and they have a bit of a competition until one of them has to get on the phone, or someone yells for them both to cut out the racket.