Weirdest customer segue ever?

[missroserose]

I'm at work today, sitting at the desk up front so I can keep an eye on things while I do my usual office stuff. A fifty-something-looking dude, apparently waiting for his wife, wanders up and strikes up a conversation.

Fifty-something dude: "Are you emailing, there?"

Me: "Nope, doing inventory."

Dude: {sounding surprised} "Really?"

Me: {slightly perplexed} "Yeah, I'm the office person."

Dude: "Oh! Just like that Paul Ryan fellow."

Me: {now very perplexed} "…no, I'm pretty sure I have nothing in common with Paul Ryan."

Dude: "That's okay, we like Ron Paul anyway."

...Seriously. WTF?

Comments

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

I think a circuit shorted in his brain or something.

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

It's as good an explanation as any...

[tygenco-x.livejournal.com]

See also: "what the hells was that?"

[jamesd.livejournal.com]

It was probably an attempt at a compliment that went wrong. Now Paul Ryan is in the media a bit at least googling* reminded me of why that name seemed familiar.

*form of word and capitalisation intended

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

You may be right, but I still have no idea what Paul Ryan has to do with inventory or office-person-ness.

[joyfulleigh.livejournal.com]

No, it makes perfect sense. Ron Paul is cuckoo bananas. As soon as he said he was a Ron Paul supporter, it should have been a dead giveaway that there were a few screws loose.

L.

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

Ha! True that.

[ivy]

[laughs] Oookay then.