One Odd Person

I have one part time job accepting phone calls for a company from 4:30 pm to 9 pm PST. One of the calls I took was really really weird and showed not only how diverse American culture has become, but it also depict the extremeness of American personalities. Usually people are nice enough to leave their name and phone number so that my employer can call them back the next day.

This guy that called was as usual looking for my employer. I told him that he has already left the office and “May I take a message and ask him to call you back tomorrow?”

He answered “Don’t you have a caller ID there so you can see my number?”

I said “I’m sorry sir, but the phone I’m using do not have a caller ID”

Ok, he said and gave me his number. Next question-

I said “And may I have your complete name sir?”

He said “There’s only one person in this house and that’s me, why are you making things difficult for me?”

I wanted to say “My deepest apology for not looking at your house first or checking your records at the government office to see if there is more than one person living in your house or is it just you.”

My employer has more than 400 clients, I just hope he is smart enough to memorize all phone numbers with the corresponding owners.