Ok My 1-800 NUmber at work....

TANNER'S MOM wrote: Is a few digits off a gas company in the state of Washington. I get calls all the time with people wanting to make payment arrangments on there bill....or they have the smell of gas. I had one call that I felt so mad for...an hispanic woman called and said that her house was sooo cold and her babies were cold...no heat?? And she couldn't understand enought english to understand that I really couldn't help her,

But anyway..

I have a southern accent.. And someone just called and when I said sorry wrong number HUN..b/c that is how we talk.. he said I just want you to know you sound IGNORANT..WTF????

I was just giving him a little hospitiality..and he calls me names... I was so po'd.

I agree that the southern sound is not the smart sounding...English, Aussies...or Yankee's....Boston they are the smart sounding ones!! Well just b/c I may not sound like everyone in Washington! I am not ignorant..and at least I am not asking for an extentsion on GAS bill is what I wanted to say sooooo dang bad!

Aren't I silly@

Mel

gr33n3y3z replied: Mel you crack me up
I find if you talk to anyone BUT a southern they are nasty on the phone
Not all but most.
Its like when you go out around here they throw your food to you and you see them no more in the south they are always like Is your food ok would you like more would you like more Iced Tea which one LOL
The more south I go the better the food and nicer ppl.

redchief replied: I'm midatlantic born and raised and I call people hon all the time... Right hon?

JAYMESMOM replied: I was born and raised in the north and I call people hon and dear all the time. It has bothered a few patients over the years but most do the same. Ecspecially the older ones - I guess they would rather be called dear and hon than mam. It is all about respect and decency unfortunately most people now a days don't have any so they don't know what it is when it happens to them.

gr33n3y3z replied: yes hon

GavinsMommy replied: at least us southerners prounounce our r's unlike most of those dialects you mentioned

i gotta go move the cah....CAH CAH CAH-northerners

thah sounds about righ -some british

and NOOOOOOOOOO i am not trying to offend anyone, just trying to make mel feel better and make a point

Alice replied: If anyone sounded ignorant, it was the guy calling you names!!!

Boys r us replied: Mel, I'm sorry!! Sopmetimes I have to talk to customers on the phone at work...and sometimes you get the occaisional JERK who is MAD b/c HE WROTE MORE CHECKS THAN HE HAD MONEY and wants his overdraft fees back and then when I refuse, they will bring up the accent..and I BARELY have one! Makes me feel like saying..look you idiot, I may have a southern accent, but you're the ignorant one who obviously can't seem to get through your skull that when you spend $500 and you only have $50 in your account..that it's going to be a problem..and that makes ME ignorant how?

~Roo'sMama~ replied: Oooh that would make me mad. What a rude thing to say! Some people.

kimberley replied:
ITA!!

A&A'smommy replied: OMG I love southern hospitalitly and NO you don't sound ignorant I think its ignorant for someone to talk to someone else who is being NICE that way!!!

MommyToAshley replied: I think some people just try to make you miserable because they are.

on him! I hope you didn't let him ruin your day.