To have laughed

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AIBU to have laughed at this and now be telling you?

I've spent the morning with my sister and while I was there she had to call and chase something up, they asked her for her order number and she read it out to them starting with S for Sea. That made me laugh so I walked out of the room so I didn't distract her, she gave me a dirty look. I walked back in after composing myself to hear her arguing about the order number being wrong, apparently it was too many digits. So the man on the other end of the phone read it back to her "S4C...." which started me off again looks like it wasn't just me that heard it that way! The S was the only letter in it as well so he couldn't have realised from her saying F for frog or whatever

Anyway, she is in a huff with me and the useless member of staff who works for that company, WIBU for telling her to lighten up when she was moaning about it?

Does anyone else have any S for Sea type mistakes they have made or heard someone else make? I could do with some more laughing

Police officer friend once said 'Y Wankee' over the radio. She was then forever known by her team as 'The Widow Wankee'. Poor girl

Withervee
Omg that made me lol

I was reporting an incidence of dangerous driving once. I was in an office full of science teachers. Reg ended wbc. I was w for white, b for blood, c for cell. Everyone laughed at me :P

I can't believe that a thread I started made the MN roundup email!

My sister will definitely never hear the end of this now that it also comes with bragging rights for me

ThumbWitches
Same here, can get very frustrating, though I've had a few callers/callees come back to me with "was that an 'S'".

Yes love, I said "S, for Freddy" .
Where did you do your training?

YADNBU OP... I would have pissed myself

I was called up by the chief bridesmaid before a hen do - cheesy t shirt with name on back being ordered. Conversation went thus

'Hiya just checking how you spell your name before its printed, sez she, is it h.i.f.e.n?

It took a few mins to realise that she thought that the word 'hyphen' was part of my actual name

My old boss, when giving out our company address always said 'N for nuts' which made me howl with laughter.

DH is a bit hesitant when talking, and says er and um out of habit.

He was asked his name on a call once and a letter arrived a few days later addressed to Erpaul Umbrown

Queen I've had that with hyphen aswell I've completely dropped it & put the 2 names together apart from official documents where that bloody hyphen still remains

My old postcode ended 3BJ... that was always fun when call centre people tried to confirm!

My current one ends JD. DH once tried to tell someone 'JD, like whiskey' which lead to a world of confusion...

I once said Y for Wankee, obviously mixing up Yankee
I had to ring the customer back when I'd composed myself

In one of my old offices a very quiet, Christian man was spelling something out to one of his clients on the phone and said "M for Murder". I had to leave the office.

cherrytree likewise - someone rang me from a GP's surgery to ask what bottle they should collect a blood sample in, and when I said "EDTA" the response was, "And how are you spelling that?"!

Iwasagirl I soooo want your colleague to have been Glaswegian too

Dd says I've cursed her, I'm always bemoaning having to spell ALL my names (1st middle and surname - 2 very unusual) but now i can't in front of her as she goes 'so what the hell were you thinking with mine?! - she has 2 middle names hence 4 names, 1 and 3 are very long (makes it difficult to fit on forms) 2 and 3 very unusual and 1 and 4 both have the same 2 optional endings but 1 has one of them and 4 has the other (we really should have spelt no 1 with the same ending as no 4) she's right it borders on child cruelty!

With regard to spelling my name it's a good exercise in the nato (correct name for it btw ) alphabet as it contains all but one letter!

Very funny thread

When I was in year ten of secondary school we had a substitute French teacher, he asked us to write our names in a list for registration, we added a couple of extra name's, Wayne ker and Jenny tall. Still makes me giggle when remembering him reading it out.

On phone to a Trainer at work and trying to give him an address, "That's Y for Wanky." Oh god, the floor couldn't open up fast enough! He thought it was hilarious, as did the rest of my open plan office!

When I was a student I worked for a while in a call centre. One man was on the phone spelling his street name out, which was Torrents Way, like this
"T for Tommy, O for Orange, two Rs both for Robert, E, N, T for ear, nose and throat and S for Steven with a V. Not a PH"

The reason i remember it so clearly, is that it was used as a training call example for years after 😂

Maybe - that's hilarious! As if it mattered how you spelt Stephen, when it was only the S that was needed!

When I was seventeen, I was a waitress. We're Nothern and at that point my exposure to Southerners was limited.

So a lovely customer, eating her food asks me very nicely for a Strabatta. Sounds like some kind of posh italian thing, I thought.
'I'll see what I can do,' I said. Cue panic in the kitchen looking for Strabattas while the staff look on bemused.

Eventually, I had go do and tell her that sorry, but I don't even know what this is.

Turns out all she wanted was extra butter.

Not RTWT and I am sure other people do this but ...

ex used to wind up the office staff where he worked with G for Gnome, K for knee, P for Psychology

He tried it with me once. Just the once.........:o

I remember a colleague on the phone saying "I, I, no I, I for idiot".

In a high school lesson I was asked "Maam. How do you spell RSPCA?"

When ordering a book from an educational supplier I was asked for the forwarding address. It included
Me: " ...Badgers Close...."
Her after slight pause"...Is that Badger as in the bird?"
She was very embarrassed but we ended up laughing helplessly.

strabatta! we're not that bad are we

My post code contains QF I always want to say queer fucker!