A Fort Collins, Colorado, listener shares the story of an unusual telephone greeting. A businessman who was used to cranky customers answered every call with, “Talk to me nicely.” This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Talk To Me Nicely”
Here’s another funny way to answer the phone. We heard from Lanny Nielsen in Fort Collins, Colorado.
And she writes, I have a friend who lived in Saint Thomas in the 70s, and she told me there was a man who had a lot of cranky customers. So he would just answer the phone, “Talk to me nicely.”
Oh yeah, that’s good advice in general.
Talk to me nicely, yeah.
But I’m imagining it said in a threatening tone.
Talk to me nicely.
Talk to us nicely or any way you please.
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