Re: Uh-Huh?

["Bob La Londe" <nospam@xxxxxxxxx>]

"tourman" <robercampbell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Oct 4, 9:59 am, 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 an
>> >> 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." She says after a painstakingly
>> detailed, key by key explanation of how to arm the system - and then she
>> 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. Which is actually an improvement over the last
>> 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 necessary
>> 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. Couldn't you just send someone out t be sure? Oh... and
>> there's no charge for this, right? I mean, after all, it's YOUR alarm..."
>
> 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,  that'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 !!



"The window contact is beeping about every minute or so."

"The keypad goes off every morning at 3:45 am, and it sounds like a wrist
watch alarm clock."