I know this topic has been brought up before, but I had some good ones back-to-back in only a few hours.
-Checked into the hotel. Everything's great. Call the front desk to ask for a light bulb replacement because the lamp is burned out (it isn't).
-Would rather be absent from the silliness of maintenance man coming to exchange one perfectly working light bulb for another, so get ready to go out to dinner.
-Call the restaurant. Navigate touch-tone menu past where it says "Press 2 to make a reservation" and press 4 to speak with a person. Ask them if they take reservations. They try to be patient, but I can tell they think I have brain damage.
-Arrive at restaurant which is 10% full, with empty tables everywhere you look, and insist on telling them I made reservations, as if it mattered. I could have brought thirty people to this place and gotten seated immediately.
-Go back to hotel. Lamp in question is blazing forth in righteous illumination. Call front desk again to ask for wake-up call. Same guy I talked to about the light bulb. Ask for 7 am wake-up call. Nice guy; doesn't say, "Hey, genius, if you look at the phone you're speaking on right now, there's a huge sign on it saying, 'AUTOMATED WAKE-UP CALLS: DIAL *33.' See that huge black box right next to it? That's an alarm clock. It works perfectly, but if you want I'll have maintenance bring you up another one."
Oh well--it's what the client wants, so it's what we do. I followed the instructions exactly, and got a perfect score on my report. I know you guys have got some good stories too, so let's hear them.
"The future ain't what it used to be." --Yogi Berra