Ok, the angry face just doesnt do this justice! Let me start at the beginning.
I have an ad out on two different websites to find homes for our extra cockerel chicks, but until today I hadnt had much of a responce. Well, starting at noon or so, that all changed.
The phone rang around noon, and on the other end is a VERY young lady with a baby and toddler crying for her attention in the background. She wants to know 'how much for the chicks' and can she 'get them by tomorrow'. She NEEDS them for Easter pictures of her children. My blood began to boil, and I asked her what she intended to do with them after the "photo shoot" and her reply was "I dunno, keep 'em I guess" to which I promptly hung up the phone.
About a half hour later, another call. This is what I hear EXACTLY, I am NOT exagerating this, you cant make up people this freaking retarded! Anyway, I hear: "Hey, you got chicks? Can I get some of them colored ones? They would be so cute in my daughters Easter basket..." To which, I grunted quite loudly and again hung up the phone.
Now, at this point I have remained fairly calm. I consider myself a pretty easy going person. It takes something (or SOMEONE) really stupid, erogant, or just plain dumb to get my feathers ruffled! Anywho....lets move on....It gets WORSE.
At around two o'clock, the phone rings again. Now this lady is smooth. She tries to play it off like she knows what shes doing. She gives me this sob story about how she ordered chicks from the farmer down the street and they were supposed to be there today, but now she cant get ahold of him and the kids are looking forward to them, so what is she supposed to do. Blah Blah Blah. So I asked her some questions. I told her I have 5 week old chicks, and asked her what she'd feed them (BREAD and CORN, was her response), where she'd keep them ("Maybe in a shoe box..." was her response), and what she planned to do with them ("The kids really just want to play with them..." was what she told me.) then I asked her how old her kids are ("Oh, they are 3 and the little one is almost 2).
So at this point I am steaming mad at all the erogant, egotistical, self centered, selfish people that keep calling and I lost it. I mean I lost it like I've never lost it on the phone before! I SCREAMED at this lady. Here's a few exerpts:
"It is because of people like you that these cute fuzzy critters end up dumped in some shelter a week after Easter, or even dead in a dumpster because you are so erogant that you think a TODDLER could possibly handle a baby animal this fragile, and you know nothing about the care they need."
"It is also because of people like you that MOST large hatcheries wont even consider selling chicks, bunnies, or ducklings during this week, even when DECENT chicken people like ME might actually want them."
"You are the same kind of person that would buy a puppy because its cute and cuddly for your brats at Christmas. Then, when puppy grows up and hes not so cute and cuddly, he ends up chained in the yard for the rest of his life, or dumped at a shelter somewhere."
Well, after I reamed her a new one, and actually made her not only cry, but appologize...I had several more phone calls. Turned out, these people didnt really WANT chicks to raise. All these people really wanted were cute Easter photos of their brats with chicks.
So, guess what? Call me stupid, but I saw and opportunity here! I now have TEN families booked tomorrow to bring their snotty kids by for "adorable" portraits with my chicks at $10 a photo! Cha-Ching! I even made a couple of cute little pastel bows for the chickies to wear! (I think they'll thank me later when I can buy them feed and treats with all that extra money!) Think I might actually advertize to do this next year! lol
I have an ad out on two different websites to find homes for our extra cockerel chicks, but until today I hadnt had much of a responce. Well, starting at noon or so, that all changed.
The phone rang around noon, and on the other end is a VERY young lady with a baby and toddler crying for her attention in the background. She wants to know 'how much for the chicks' and can she 'get them by tomorrow'. She NEEDS them for Easter pictures of her children. My blood began to boil, and I asked her what she intended to do with them after the "photo shoot" and her reply was "I dunno, keep 'em I guess" to which I promptly hung up the phone.
About a half hour later, another call. This is what I hear EXACTLY, I am NOT exagerating this, you cant make up people this freaking retarded!
Anyway, I hear: "Hey, you got chicks? Can I get some of them colored ones? They would be so cute in my daughters Easter basket..." To which, I grunted quite loudly and again hung up the phone. Now, at this point I have remained fairly calm. I consider myself a pretty easy going person. It takes something (or SOMEONE) really stupid, erogant, or just plain dumb to get my feathers ruffled! Anywho....lets move on....It gets WORSE.
At around two o'clock, the phone rings again. Now this lady is smooth. She tries to play it off like she knows what shes doing. She gives me this sob story about how she ordered chicks from the farmer down the street and they were supposed to be there today, but now she cant get ahold of him and the kids are looking forward to them, so what is she supposed to do. Blah Blah Blah. So I asked her some questions. I told her I have 5 week old chicks, and asked her what she'd feed them (BREAD and CORN, was her response), where she'd keep them ("Maybe in a shoe box..." was her response), and what she planned to do with them ("The kids really just want to play with them..." was what she told me.) then I asked her how old her kids are ("Oh, they are 3 and the little one is almost 2).
So at this point I am steaming mad at all the erogant, egotistical, self centered, selfish people that keep calling and I lost it. I mean I lost it like I've never lost it on the phone before! I SCREAMED at this lady. Here's a few exerpts:
"It is because of people like you that these cute fuzzy critters end up dumped in some shelter a week after Easter, or even dead in a dumpster because you are so erogant that you think a TODDLER could possibly handle a baby animal this fragile, and you know nothing about the care they need."
"It is also because of people like you that MOST large hatcheries wont even consider selling chicks, bunnies, or ducklings during this week, even when DECENT chicken people like ME might actually want them."
"You are the same kind of person that would buy a puppy because its cute and cuddly for your brats at Christmas. Then, when puppy grows up and hes not so cute and cuddly, he ends up chained in the yard for the rest of his life, or dumped at a shelter somewhere."
Well, after I reamed her a new one, and actually made her not only cry, but appologize...I had several more phone calls. Turned out, these people didnt really WANT chicks to raise. All these people really wanted were cute Easter photos of their brats with chicks.
So, guess what? Call me stupid, but I saw and opportunity here! I now have TEN families booked tomorrow to bring their snotty kids by for "adorable" portraits with my chicks at $10 a photo! Cha-Ching! I even made a couple of cute little pastel bows for the chickies to wear! (I think they'll thank me later when I can buy them feed and treats with all that extra money!) Think I might actually advertize to do this next year! lol
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