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Rumpelteazer · 03-17-2012, 06:46 PM

I had a bit of a DUH moment today, too.
A customer came in today and his wife had told him to buy a new "stockings lamp". I didn't have a clue what that was and he didn't either. He called his wife and with her description and the fact that it was a lamp for in a garden light fixture I finally understood he was asking for a SOX lamp.

We often have people come up with creative names of their own. My favourite is people asking for a flambéed lamp when they mean a flame lamp (which is a terracotta coloured lamp).

03-17-2012, 06:46 PM	#33413
Rumpelteazer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,367 Karma: 27919658 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Utrecht, the Netherlands Device: Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition	I had a bit of a DUH moment today, too. A customer came in today and his wife had told him to buy a new "stockings lamp". I didn't have a clue what that was and he didn't either. He called his wife and with her description and the fact that it was a lamp for in a garden light fixture I finally understood he was asking for a SOX lamp. We often have people come up with creative names of their own. My favourite is people asking for a flambéed lamp when they mean a flame lamp (which is a terracotta coloured lamp).