Hello my darlings in blog land........
A few moons ago i was a travel agent (for ten years) how the years pass! before i became the lady i am today i saw many wondrous SIGHTS....the things i saw astounded even me at times. The Job taught me lessons, made me think about the world and even left me wanting to kill the public. But over the years i have noted every person falls into a FEW different types of customer so my question to you is.........which one are you?
The hopperOK this one is only mildly annoying but annoying all the same. Us girls were very busy chatting in the office when in comes a customer he (they are generally men) looks at us (6 girls) all sitting there looking like we are not doing anything (note: we have to LOOK up at you and acknowledge you, we would rather ignore you)
anyway the hopper proceeds to jump about like a madman from one foot to the NEXT shouting ' who wants me then?....Ive got the PICK here.....' and other annoying comments.
we all just stare open mouthed as we have seen the Hopper many times but they still shock us as seeing a grown man hop can do to you. We then all put our HEADS down and try to ignore the Hopper before he realises he just has to choose someone.
Hoppers please we have seen this many times just pick one of us we all have the same offers.
The under cover agentThe most annoying customer that ever was and they HUNT in twos. When i asked (have you had any other quotes?) they automatically look at each other, go red then say no. OK so what are the 20 bits of paper poking out from Ur BAG then Mrs? or if its the man spy he leaves the quotes in the car! right so i know they are lying but hey ho lets get on with it.
half an hour of searching for a holiday i find something perfect i give them the price. They suddenly jump up and down producing their quote saying ' ha got you Ive got it five pounds cheaper!'
right OK you nutter i can beat that deal i could have beaten that deal HALF an hour ago but hey if you wanna waste your time that's fine with me!...freak sit down.
under cover agents please just get those quotes out, there are millions of holidays out there if you have found one let us just get you a great price and stop wasting our time and urs.
The jokerslightly like a Hopper but MORE annoying! yes the joker always comes in with a long suffering
partner in crime (husband, wife or friend) they look at you from across the desk beaming.
'take a seat i say' they reply ' where should i take it' at this point the whole office sighs cause we know we have a joker. BLOODY HELL WHY ME? Jane over theres husbands just left her go and cheer her up.....
So it continues.....'how much would you like to spend?' reply 'nothing! ha ha no wait five pound!' this is always followed by an annoying LAUGH. if you look at the secondary person they are with they are usually cringing just as much as you are. the good thing about jokers is they normally calm down within ten minutes (the trick to it is don't laugh it fuels them)
Jokers please Ur not funny and we've heard it before.
Defensive/indecisive/paranoidhow the HELL these types of people live among us i will never know....here is how the convo will go....
me: what kind of accommodation would you like?
them: don't know
me: how much would you spend?
them: not sure yet
me: what about Cyprus?
Them: yeah i suppose
Me: DO YOU WANT A FUCKING HOLIDAY OR ARE YOU JUST BORED AND WANT TO WASTE MY TIME YOU INDECISIVE DEFENSIVE PARANOID IDIOT?
Them: not sure....
AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
D/I/P we are not trying to trick you into going anywhere we just need to ask these questions to find out what you need from Ur holiday i could be searching for something you could never afford in a month of Sundays just bloody well grow some balls and make a decision.
The oh look a travel agent lets go inMy personal pet hate is these ones, happy to waste Ur time looking at holidays from the UK right round to Australia with a stop over in outer Mongolia with a bit of pony trekking on the side. then they say got anything else? what? Ive been sitting here for an hour Ive got a whole fucking brochure full love now bugger off read it then tell me where you want to go you bloody time wasters!
Oh look a travel agent people please I'm not saying look at every brochure but at least get a bloody idea of where you want to go before you come in?
gosh my fingers ache and there are more! ha ha OK that's part 1 i shall share more next time ttfn xx