
This Guy Shared The Weirdest Thing He’s Seen At A Client’s House And It’s Hard Not To Laugh At It

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Working in customer service, you never know who, or what you are gonna meet next. A good example of this is a recent reddit thread where someone asked, “People who enter homes for a living (Maintenance, cable contractors, etc), what’s the strangest thing you’ve encountered when entering someone’s home?” The topic has already received nearly 10,500 upvotes and while most of the responses are incredibly intriguing, one stands out from the rest.
It’s by a computer technician and involves a parrot, a toy train, and… You have to read it to believe it.
“Stories like the one I wrote were definitely highlights of my career as an on-call computer tech, but there are equally as many horror stories,” the guy who wanted to remain anonymous told Bored Panda. “Looking back, I’d say that it was a decent college gig, but ultimately not something I’d want to do as a career.”
His first impression of the client was a positive one. “He was a pretty good-natured guy, in his early 70s and in decent shape for his age. I only visited him twice – both times to remove viruses (back then, old people on the internet attracted viruses like bugs to lights). Both times I was there he was pretty cool to me, but we didn’t have all that much conversation outside of talking about his bird, and fixing his computer.”
“When you work in a job that has you going into random people’s homes, you’re bound to have interesting experiences, and you eventually learn to just roll with it,” the guy concluded.
Sometimes, life truly is stranger than fiction. (Facebook cover image: John)
Recently, a computer technician told his most memorable client story, proving that working with them directly isn’t always as dreadful as you’d think
Image credits: The_Gut (not the actual photo)
What do you think ?
Hahah I don't blame the guy for saying it was super surreal :D But I am also glad that the owners thought so much of their pet and enbled him moving around :D Wonder how long they had to tell the parrot "Choo choo mofo" before it started repeating it
I don't think they taught him to say it. He probably learned the words separately and put them together. Birds are very intelligent.
I know now - mainly guessing,who's parrot it was - Tarantino's
Samuel L Jackson in Pulp Fiction
If I got a chance to play with a Macaw for hours - i would pay him
if that had been me I would have been on the floor playing with the parrot all day - just sod the job you came to do
sorry mister - am going to have to come back tomorrow - no charge
people in my class are staring at me now as I just spit out my water and started laughing.
Ok - now am being criticised by people who were not born when the internet came out who wouldnt know what year that was and who are able to monitor social media in class
why are you looking at this in class instead of paying attention to your teacher? your education is wasted
Wow, you're fun to be around !
Woah jeez! Chill out. I look at this when we have our free time in class.
@susanna - i do apologise I am of a different generation. we got in trouble with our teachers for passing actual handwritten notes to each other in class - we were not allowed to have fun
Oh yeah? And exactly how much of what you have learnt have you APPLIED in your work? I paid attention in my class, but also never forgot to have fun. I can say that wtv i WASTED my college money on didnt even come in handy!
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this made my day!
Hahah I don't blame the guy for saying it was super surreal :D But I am also glad that the owners thought so much of their pet and enbled him moving around :D Wonder how long they had to tell the parrot "Choo choo mofo" before it started repeating it
I don't think they taught him to say it. He probably learned the words separately and put them together. Birds are very intelligent.
I know now - mainly guessing,who's parrot it was - Tarantino's
Samuel L Jackson in Pulp Fiction
If I got a chance to play with a Macaw for hours - i would pay him
if that had been me I would have been on the floor playing with the parrot all day - just sod the job you came to do
sorry mister - am going to have to come back tomorrow - no charge
people in my class are staring at me now as I just spit out my water and started laughing.
Ok - now am being criticised by people who were not born when the internet came out who wouldnt know what year that was and who are able to monitor social media in class
why are you looking at this in class instead of paying attention to your teacher? your education is wasted
Wow, you're fun to be around !
Woah jeez! Chill out. I look at this when we have our free time in class.
@susanna - i do apologise I am of a different generation. we got in trouble with our teachers for passing actual handwritten notes to each other in class - we were not allowed to have fun
Oh yeah? And exactly how much of what you have learnt have you APPLIED in your work? I paid attention in my class, but also never forgot to have fun. I can say that wtv i WASTED my college money on didnt even come in handy!
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this made my day!