Who is the kookiest person you've talked to recently?

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Talking to a Karen is always at the top of my list of worst encounters. They are like a subspecies of their own. So weird and so entitled.

Maybe that one guy who just kept whispering under his breath. It was like he was reciting a spell or something. You can never have too much of these weirdos/

I recently encountered a woman who was convinced aliens had hacked her computer. She insisted that a virus on her computer was impossible to remove and that the only way to get rid of it was to call in extraterrestrial help. She was adamant that we had to help her contact aliens to get rid of the virus. Needless to say, it was an interesting conversation!

For me, it was a customer who was incredibly long-winded but still complained about how long they had been on the phone.

This guy who was convinced that someone was spying on everything they did through their phone. Of course, I know this is true to some degree with Google, but I mean, customers who have serious conspiracy theories and persecution delusions take the cake.

I've had my fair share of customers who complain about their issue, ask for your solution, reject the solution, complain again and the same sequence repeats multiple times. Eventually, they accept the solution and go on and on about why you didn't do it earlier. SIGH.

I work customer service for a psychic hotline. You can imagine that it goes crazy. When we have a ridiculous caller, we just put them on speaker so the agents nearby can hear what’s going on.

Hmm. Let me see. I think it would be the guy who was so calm but there was a child wailing in the background. I find it disturbing.

Oh wow! Reading the comments makes me feel like I've been talking to saints all this time. Haha

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