- Prospect:
- Can you fix my unicycle?
- Travel Agent:
- What?
- Prospect:
- Do you know how to ride and fix unicycles? Can you show me at least five examples of unicycles that you have fixed?
- Travel Agent:
- I… I’m a travel agent.
- Prospect:
- Right. I read you online you can help me get to Switzerland
- Travel Agent:
- That’s right- I can absolutely help you get to Switzerland. We have some great…
- Prospect:
- So you can fix my Unicycle.
- Travel Agent:
- What?
- Prospect:
- I’m planning to ride my unicycle to Switzerland
- Travel Agent:
- That… I don’t think that would work…
- Prospect
- I know. I’ve been having some trouble with it so far. That’s why I came to you. You can help people get to Switzerland. Can you fix my unicycle so that I can get to Switzerland?
- Travel Agent:
- Are you trying to win a record or something?
- Prospect:
- I don’t understand. I just really need to get to Switzerland as fast as possible.
- Travel Agent:
- So… Why did you decide to use a unicycle?
- Prospect
- It was free.
- Travel Agent:
- Free?
- Prospect:
- Yeah! I needed to get to Switzerland, so I started poking around the internet for free transportation options. I found this unicycle, along with some great free tutorials about how to ride it. I can almost make it across the room without falling.
- Travel Agent:
- And you want me to?
- Prospect:
- Help me get the unicycle to go fast enough to get me to Switzerland. I really need to be there tomorrow.
- Travel Agent:
- You can not ride a unicycle to Switzerland and get there tomorrow. I don’t think you could get there ever. Unicycles are not meant to be ridden that far.
- Prospect:
- I hear what you’re saying, but…
- Travel Agent:
- Why don’t you just buy a plane ticket?
- Prospect:
- That costs money. I try to save money whenever I can.
- Prospect:
- Have you ever used a unicycle?
- Travel Agent:
- No. But I…
- Prospect:
- Well- You really ought take a look at this unicycle. I got it for free online. It’s really professional looking. I’ve heard some other people say that it works pretty well.
- Travel Agent:
- Listen! I’ve been in the travel industry for decades. You came to me for help, so listen to what I’m telling you. You can not ride a unicycle to Switzerland. If you need to get there by tomorrow, the only way is to buy a plane ticket. Would you like my help buying a plane ticket to Switzerland?
- Prospect:
- Well. That sounds pretty good. There’s a lot to consider, though.
- Travel Agent:
- Such as?
- Prospect:
- Can I take my unicycle on the plane with me?
- Travel Agent:
- Of course you can. You’ll need to put it in a case, and then you can either check it or take it as carry-on. No problem.
- Prospect:
- Can you show me five examples of other people with unicycles that you’ve helped fly to Switzerland?
To all developers, designers, a service providers:
You know exactly what I mean, don’t you?
To all prospects, customers, and clients:
Please stop acting this way.
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all the best.
Ha ha.. really very touching..
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brilliant!!! thanks
Hahahaha that is indeed brilliant!
Very true and very amusing. Although it is up to all of us to educate these cyclists that what they’re doing is stupid.
I can completely relate to this. Very true…
Bwahahahaha…I’m not a designer, and I can still relate to this. I used to do tech support for a software company, and some of the things people could come up with just boggles the mind.
I’m a coder and get this all the time. Why can’t my services be free like online. You get what you pay for.
This is hilarious and sadly so true!
Why yes, I HAVE been there.
Well done.
Classic!
I just had coffee with a gentlemen last week. He is a heavy equipment broker, and he wants me to build him a website that includes a database for storing information about equipment. Buyers can scan the website for equipment, click a picture and get lots of details… there is some significant design, and mysql database stuff that has to go on here…
He wants me to build this for him, and then he wants to take this website model and sell it to other equipment brokers.
Oh, he wants me to do the initial website for free. And get 50% if or when we actually sell websites to other brokers…
I have been thinking about how to reply to him… besides just saying “no”…
Now I think that I just need to find a picture of a unicycle, send him an email with the picture of the unicycle, and include a link to this post…
Great stuff!
Mike
Very funny!
Whenever I try to find someone to do a bit of work for me (which I expect to pay for) two things happen…
1. Everyone tells me who can do it for free, or where I can build a free blog.
2. The people who respond can’t seem to do the job that I ask them to do…although they they can.
It can be frustrating from both sides.
Sorry………No. 2 should have read “although they say they can”
This is hilarious! So many people expect that because you are a specialist in one thing you will also do anything vaguely similar – ie if you are an SEO expert you should do everything from fix their computer to design them a new logo! My favorite bit is the “Can you show me five examples of other people with unicycles that you’ve helped fly to Switzerland?”
Matt
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