Weird work week so far.
People are stupid. Me included.
It’s probably me. Que Eric Claptin.
Yesterday, I had someone at the desk. To help her I needed to ask a co-worker a question. I picked up my phone, pushed the extension on the switchboard. sounds simple enough, eh?
when you pick up the phone you get a dial tone.
after you dial a number, you hear a ring tone to indicate that the phone on the other end is ringing.
I momentarily forgot how a phone works. When I heard the ringtone in my ear I immediately
Good afternoon, (company name) how may I help you?
after a second of silence, I heard the ringtone in my ear again and realized what I did.
Me being how I am, bust out laughing.
The lady asked if I accidentally dialed myself and answered it.
I started laughing harder, because I had just done that the night before when I was forwarding the phones to the answering service.
I explained to her what I did (thankfully she’s a long time customer and has known me for a while)
the laughing at this point was getting contagious.
I then explained how I forgot to hit the forward button on the phone the night before.
this of coarse made it so when I dialed our phone number from my extension, instead of the answering service, the main line would ring. I in turn would answer the main line, which would hang up the extension call, thus hanging up the main line in my ear. I then would spit out an expletive. Lather rinse repeat for two minutes.
A co worker of mine laughing hysterically clued me in. I like her a lot. She remind me of my step mom. Laughs the same too, especially when she really gets laughing. you just can’t help but laugh with her.
Funny.
I was having a strange week at work. Now I find myself missing family.
Emotions are funny that way ain’t they.
Wouldn’t trade em for the world tough.
*laughs*