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outsdrMaybe the weirdest phone call I've received, ever. Just happened.
A gentlemen calls, gives his name (which I didn't catch) and says that he stayed at our hotel two weeks ago, and that he's looking for a man who was working at the font desk who was very helpful to him. Now, there are only two men who work at the front desk, the other being my roommate, and while he and I do share a resemblance, I'm significantly taller than him. The caller described me perfectly, including being tall. I told him that I believed I was the one he may be looking for.
He then said that if I was indeed who he was looking for, he would be back to our hotel in a few weeks, and had a proposition for me. A very lucrative proposition.
He said that he is a writer, and writer's like to act out scenes they are writing about. He had a scene he wanted to act out, and would pay well to do so.
He wants to slap me.
I'm trying not to crack up, and keep my "professional" voice.
He goes on to ask me about my build, how much I weigh, how short my hair is, have I ever worked construction, was I ever in the military, etc, etc...
"How big is your dick?"
"Excuse me?"
"How big is your neck?"
mmmhmm.
He goes on to tell me that there are "several other" people he may select from, and each one is bidding on how many slaps they can take. The highest one is up to 300 slaps. He asks me how many slaps I think I can take?
I tell him I don't know, I've never been slapped. He repeats, "You've never been slapped?"
"I'm not the kind of person that people seem to think it's a good idea to slap."
He asks me if I would be interested, it's very lucrative, a lot of money. I asked him how _much_ money.
"One thousand dollars."
(Yeah, ok, that IS a lot of money.)
He asks me to consider it, and if there's a number he can reach me at? I tell him that i don't give out my home number, but if he calls the hotel and leaves a message, I can always return his call.
He says thank you, and that he will call and leave a message for me tomorrow.
Weird.
But still .... $1,000... hmmm.
Nah.
ETA: I just realized, Andy wasn't even in town two weeks ago; there is no one else in the hotel that he could possibly be thinking of but me. I guess I'm flattered?
A gentlemen calls, gives his name (which I didn't catch) and says that he stayed at our hotel two weeks ago, and that he's looking for a man who was working at the font desk who was very helpful to him. Now, there are only two men who work at the front desk, the other being my roommate, and while he and I do share a resemblance, I'm significantly taller than him. The caller described me perfectly, including being tall. I told him that I believed I was the one he may be looking for.
He then said that if I was indeed who he was looking for, he would be back to our hotel in a few weeks, and had a proposition for me. A very lucrative proposition.
He said that he is a writer, and writer's like to act out scenes they are writing about. He had a scene he wanted to act out, and would pay well to do so.
He wants to slap me.
I'm trying not to crack up, and keep my "professional" voice.
He goes on to ask me about my build, how much I weigh, how short my hair is, have I ever worked construction, was I ever in the military, etc, etc...
"How big is your dick?"
"Excuse me?"
"How big is your neck?"
mmmhmm.
He goes on to tell me that there are "several other" people he may select from, and each one is bidding on how many slaps they can take. The highest one is up to 300 slaps. He asks me how many slaps I think I can take?
I tell him I don't know, I've never been slapped. He repeats, "You've never been slapped?"
"I'm not the kind of person that people seem to think it's a good idea to slap."
He asks me if I would be interested, it's very lucrative, a lot of money. I asked him how _much_ money.
"One thousand dollars."
(Yeah, ok, that IS a lot of money.)
He asks me to consider it, and if there's a number he can reach me at? I tell him that i don't give out my home number, but if he calls the hotel and leaves a message, I can always return his call.
He says thank you, and that he will call and leave a message for me tomorrow.
Weird.
But still .... $1,000... hmmm.
Nah.
ETA: I just realized, Andy wasn't even in town two weeks ago; there is no one else in the hotel that he could possibly be thinking of but me. I guess I'm flattered?
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Date: 2010-07-18 08:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-18 09:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-18 09:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-18 09:00 am (UTC)That certainly wins a prize for the weirdest phone call I have ever heard about.
Definitely no, though. (You can tell him that your employers do not allow you to make private financial arrangements with people you would not have met were it not through work - which is certainly true of my employers ...) $1000 is only $3.33 per slap @300 - would you let someone slap you once for that?
On my way to work there is a pond which can be pretty, but which many idiots seem to think is really somewhere to dispose of their rubbish; it must be a giant petri dish. One day a Mini was in the middle of it, and later I saw two blokes wading out to the car presumably to see if there was anything worth nicking. This led me to musing what would induce me to wade into that pond. All my male pupils said they'd go in on the spot for a fiver cash down! I, however, decided that my price was a lot higher. What use is 1,000 if there are consequent medical bills, or if you lose pay because you can't go into work? I decided that it had to be an amount of money that would make a significant difference to my life on more than a one-off basis. Eventually the boys beat me down to £10,000. If I was allowed to wear waterproof wader-things from the waist down. Needless to say, no one has yet anted up the money and the waders!
Looking forward to hearing what the man says if he rings back!
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Date: 2010-07-18 09:15 am (UTC)Besides, I can see it EASILY turning into a scenario of, "I'm paying you a lot of money. I need you to take off your shirt while I slap you. Now for the next slap scene, you should be naked. Oh, and the protagonist is getting his ass slapped, so we'll have to do that. While I'm naked. But it's for a thousand dollars!"
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Date: 2010-07-18 09:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-18 09:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-18 09:48 pm (UTC)uhm. that doesn't sound like what i mean ;)
you know what i mean dammit! *laugh*