{"id":15703,"date":"2009-12-10T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2009\/12\/10\/those-houses-are-too-small-for-anyone-to-live-in\/"},"modified":"2009-12-10T07:00:01","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T07:00:01","slug":"those-houses-are-too-small-for-anyone-to-live-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20091210-01\/?p=15703","title":{"rendered":"Those houses are too small for anyone to live in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/notalwaysright.com\/\"> Not Always Right<\/a> is a collection of brief stories told by people in customer service. One of my favorites is from somebody who lives on Catalina Island and had to answer the question, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/notalwaysright.com\/must-be-from-orange-county\/580\">What time does the island close?<\/a>&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> Runners-up: (I&#8217;ve left off the punch lines so as not to spoil the surprise.) <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>     The person who     called 9-1-1     <a href=\"http:\/\/notalwaysright.com\/your-urgency-is-not-my-emergency\/626\">     because<\/a>&#8230; <\/li>\n<li>     The person who didn&#8217;t read the sign     <a href=\"http:\/\/notalwaysright.com\/translation-stupid\/3022\">     because<\/a>&#8230; <\/li>\n<li>     The person who didn&#8217;t read the sign     <a href=\"http:\/\/notalwaysright.com\/a-sign-of-a-long-day\/3201\">     because<\/a>&#8230; <\/li>\n<li>     The person who couldn&#8217;t get out of the building     <a href=\"http:\/\/notalwaysright.com\/why-judgment-days-gonna-be-a-cakewalk-part-2\/3270\">     because<\/a>&#8230; <\/li>\n<li>     The person who can&#8217;t get into the bathroom     <a href=\"http:\/\/notalwaysright.com\/cant-take-a-hint-or-a-leak\/2541\">     because<\/a>&#8230; <\/li>\n<li>     The person who can&#8217;t enter the password     <a href=\"http:\/\/notalwaysright.com\/now-i-dont-know-my-abcs\/2766\">     because<\/a>&#8230; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> The stories have been collected into a book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0740785788?tag=tholneth-20\"> <i>The Customer Is Not Always Right: Hilarious and Horrific Tales of Customers Gone Wrong<\/i><\/a>. It&#8217;s almost certainly a funnier and more enjoyable read than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0321440307?tag=tholneth-20\"> my own book<\/a>. What&#8217;s more, they have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=6298174767\"> a Facebook group<\/a> and I don&#8217;t. Maybe I should start one? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not Always Right is a collection of brief stories told by people in customer service. One of my favorites is from somebody who lives on Catalina Island and had to answer the question, &#8220;What time does the island close?&#8221; Runners-up: (I&#8217;ve left off the punch lines so as not to spoil the surprise.) The person [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-15703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Not Always Right is a collection of brief stories told by people in customer service. One of my favorites is from somebody who lives on Catalina Island and had to answer the question, &#8220;What time does the island close?&#8221; Runners-up: (I&#8217;ve left off the punch lines so as not to spoil the surprise.) 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