Give me a little credit, please.

March 10. 2009, under Blog with One Comment

If you’ve taken people’s information before, especially over the phone, I’m sure you’ve had things spelled out for you.

Which is fine, I appreciate it when people spell their last names and street names when they’re really crazy, or have a different spelling than you’d think. I don’t want to get their name wrong.

But sometimes, people need to ease up a little and give me the benefit of the doubt. I am not a complete and utter moron.

Today, I had a lady tell me her address. Great, no problem. I forget what the first part was, but the ending was ‘Place’. She proceeded to spell the word ‘place’ for me.

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After that, when I was getting her email address, she also spelled out ‘gmail’.

Now I know she didn’t know me, and doesn’t know that I use gmail myself, but it’s not like it’s an unpopular email client. If I’m asking for your email, wouldn’t you assume I ask for everyone’s email and probably have had a gmail address before? Same with the lady who spelled ‘comcast’ for me.

But what gets me, is the people who have really hard last names. You know, like Sweofjwefojwe, and they don’t spell it, but then when you ask their first name, they’ll go, “B -  O -  B”.

Yeah.

Thanks.