I had someone ask for an aisle seats so that his or her hair
wouldn't get messed up by being near the window.
I got a call from a woman who wanted to go to Capetown. I
started to explain the length of the flight and the passport information when
she interrupted me with "I'm not trying to make you look stupid, but Capetown
is in Massachusetts."
Without trying to make her look like the stupid one, I calmly explained,
"Capecod is in Massachusetts, Capetown is
in Africa." Her response ... click!.
A man called, furious about a Florida package we did. I asked what was wrong
with the vacation in Orlando.
He said he was expecting an ocean-view room. I tried to explain that is not
possible, since Orlando
is in the middle of the state. He replied, "Don't lie to me. I looked on
the map and Florida
is a very thin state."
I got a call from a man who asked, "Is it possible to
see England from Canada?" I
said, "No." He said "But they look so close on the map."
Another man called and asked if he could rent a car in Dallas. When I pulled up
the reservation, I noticed he had a 1-hour lay over in Dallas. When I asked him why he wanted to
rent a car, he said, "I heard Dallas
was a big airport, and I need a car to drive between the gates to save
time."
A nice lady just called. She needed to know how it was
possible that her flight from Detroit left at
8:20am and got into Chicago
at 8:33am. I tried to explain that Michigan
was an hour ahead of llinois, but she could not understand the concept of time
zones. Finally I told her the plane went very fast, and she bought that!
A woman called and asked, "Do airlines put your
physical description on your bag so they know who's luggage belongs to
who?" I said, "No, why do you ask?" She replied, "Well,
when I checked in with the airline, they put a tag on my luggage that said FAT,
and I'm overweight, is there any connection?" After putting her on hold
for a minute while I "looked into it" (I was actually laughing) I
came back and explained the city code for Fresno is FAT, and that the airline
was just putting a destination tag on her luggage.
I just got off the phone with a man who asked, "How do
I know which plane to get on?" I asked him what exactly he meant, which he
replied, "I was told my flight number is 823, but none of these darn
planes have numbers on them."
A woman called and said, "I need to fly to Pepsi-cola
on one of those computer planes." I asked if she meant to fly to Pensacola on a commuter
plane. She said, "Yeah, whatever."
A businessman called and had a question about the documents he needed in order to fly to China. After a lengthy discussion about passports, I reminded him he needed a visa. "Oh no I don't, I've been to China many times and never had to have one of those." I double checked and sure enough, his stay required a visa. When I told him this he said, "Look, I've been to China four times and every time they have accepted my American Express."
A woman called to make reservations, "I want to go from
Chicago to Hippopotamus, New York" The agent was at a loss for
words. Finally, the agent: "Are you sure that's the name of the
town?" "Yes, what flights do you have?" replied the customer.
After some searching, the agent came back with, "I'm sorry, ma'am, I've
looked up every airport code in the country and can't find a Hippopotamus
anywhere." The customer retorted, "Oh don't be silly. Everyone knows
where it is. Check your map!" The agent scoured a map of the state of New York and finally offered, "You don't mean Buffalo, do you?"
"That's it! I knew it was a big animal!"
Source : http://www.curiousread.com
Thank you for sharing. I have been looking for travel agent opportunities and found this post to be very informative and helpful not to mention hilarious!
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