Re: Uh-Huh?

[mleuck <m.leuck@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 4, 11:55=A0am, tourman <robercampb...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Oct 4, 9:59=A0am, JoeRaisin <Joeraisin2...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>
> > tourman wrote:
> > > On Oct 3, 11:29 pm, "Bob La Londe" <nos...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >> After spending about 20 minutes explaining to a lady yesterday how a=
n alarm
> > >> system works she said,
>
> > >> "I don't think we want the monitoring, but the cellular part sounds =
like a
> > >> good idea."
>
> > >> Sigh!
>
> > > RHC: Have fun training them.....:))
>
> > "Okay, let me see if I got this." =A0She says after a painstakingly
> > detailed, key by key explanation of how to arm the system - and then sh=
e
> > goes on to randomly press approximately three times as many keys as you
> > had just demonstrated, two of them being on the telephone mounted about
> > a foot from the keypad. =A0Which is actually an improvement over the la=
st
> > three attempts as this time there was no use of ANY of the buttons on
> > the dishwasher, AND she seems to now understand that it is not necessar=
y
> > to start her car before trying to arm...
>
> > And then there's the 2AM phone call - "No ma'am, that's not the alarm
> > system, that's a car alarm outside."
>
> > "Are you sure, I never heard this sound before I had the alarm
> > installed. =A0Couldn't you just send someone out t be sure? =A0Oh... an=
d
> > there's no charge for this, right? =A0I mean, after all, it's YOUR alar=
m..."
>
> RHC: Yup, you got it....hehehe.
>
> Then there's the call...
>
> Customer: "Your damn smoke detector is beeping; how do I stop it?"
>
> Me: "No, the alarm smoke doesn't beep maam, =A0that's one of the house
> smokes beeping because the backup battery needs to be changed"
>
> Customer:" Well come change it then, that's included in your service
> package isn't it"
>
> ......?????....WTF
>
> I dunno, some people just shouldn't have an alarm system, period !!

I had one of those smoke detector customers, she changed the battery
and it still beeped, turned out it was a pager on a desk nearby