Leftover Soup




	I work in a call center, and, when you work customer service of any sort, you tend to develop little standardized jokes and verbal quirks that you can reuse. "Take your time, I get paid by the hour" is one of mine. It usually puts customers at ease whenever I have to get them to look up their information or perform some mundane technical action. As a side note, this strip, number 157, marks one full year of Leftover Soup. I've been putting these strips on the Internet for a year, a week has passed in strip time, and, if you read them at an average of fifteen seconds per strip, you'd get through the archives in a little under forty minutes.

0157------------------------------------- (Thursday, INT: Wilson Custom Alterations, Mary Wilson behind the counter, EB entering with satchel) EB: Hello? MW: Hello, can I help you? EB: Actually, I'm here to help you. I'm Ellen Boorsen, from Overdrive Computers. -------------- MW: Oh! I didn't expect you to be a woman! EB: I get that a lot. I understand you've been having problems with network latency. -------------- MW: Oh, no, nothing like that. Our Internet's just been very, very slow lately. EB: Not a problem, I can take care of it. Just show me to the computer in question, I'll try to stay out of your way. -------------- MW: Oh... I was in the middle of writing an email newsletter, actually. Do you mind waiting? EB (leaning back): Hey, you pay per visit, and I get paid by the hour. By all means, take as long as you like.