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Sorry, Please Play Again
Thursday, 2005 November 17 - 7:28 pm
Tonight's moment of silliness, brought to you by Night Ranger.

Tonight I was making dinner reservations for me and Amy, so we can celebrate our three month anniversary.

Girl: "Thank you for calling The Food Hole*... can I help you?"
Me: "Yes, I'd like to make dinner reservations for tomorrow night."
Girl: "All right, can you hold please?"
Me: "Okay."

(Click. One second blast of Muzak. Click.")

Girl: "Sorry to keep you waiting."
Me: "Um, that's okay." (Boy, apologizing for a one second wait? That's polite.)
Girl: "Is this <unintelligible>?"
Me: "Excuse me?"
Girl: "Is this Sister Christian?"
Me: "You mean, the Night Ranger song? I couldn't really tell from that one second snippet, but I'll guess 'no'."
Girl: "I said, IS THIS MISTER HARMON?"
Me: "Oh, ah, no."
Girl: "Um, please hold."

So here I thought the restaurant was playing some kind of "Name That Tune" game, when in fact, she just hadn't clicked the call-waiting thing long enough. Darn, I was hoping to win a prize.

As for "Mister Harmon", I don't even know how that song goes.

*The restaurant is not actually called The Food Hole, but Monocerdo recently mentioned one of my favorite Simpsons terms, "car hole", and I had to work in a reference.
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Comment #1 from olafandyjon (Guest)
2005 Nov 18 - 9:15 am : #
That really cracked me up for some reason!
Comment #2 from MonoCerdo (Guest)
2005 Nov 18 - 10:07 am : #
Ha! I love both the fact that your first thought was Sister Christian AND that you actually knew who sang it. That would have made my day, had I been The Food Hole phone answering woman.
Comment #3 from John C (Guest)
2005 Nov 20 - 6:19 pm : #
For some reason. That reason was because it was a riot!
Comment #4 from shaira (Guest)
2007 Nov 18 - 12:09 pm : #
can i play sorry

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