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Weirdest thing you have seen on/in/done to a phone
Hi all! I'm new here, but I must say thanks for many hours of amusement. Just when I thought I had the stupidest customers, somebody has got me beat. 🙂
So I've been dying to share my own weird and wacky phone experiences and I thought I'd start with these. Here are the strange things I have seen phones covered in:
1. Tar. Customer either dropped the phone in the bucket of tar, or it took a tumble onto a freshly paved road. Needless to say, very very sticky.
2. Motor oil. Dropped INTO the pail of motor oil.
3. Gasoline. You could smell it from a mile away.
4. My personal favorite-- Jam. Here is the conversation that followed me pointing out that the phone had jam in all the nooks and crannies:
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So I've been dying to share my own weird and wacky phone experiences and I thought I'd start with these. Here are the strange things I have seen phones covered in:
1. Tar. Customer either dropped the phone in the bucket of tar, or it took a tumble onto a freshly paved road. Needless to say, very very sticky.
2. Motor oil. Dropped INTO the pail of motor oil.
3. Gasoline. You could smell it from a mile away.
4. My personal favorite-- Jam. Here is the conversation that followed me pointing out that the phone had jam in all the nooks and crannies:
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I had a lady who was on a plane got sick and puked into her purse and totally soaked her phone.
I also had a lady who's husband dropped it into the toilet, her toddler then got a hold of the phone and slobbered all over the phone (why in the hell they let the toddler have it after it dropped in the toilet I don't know) then the toddle dropped it in the driveway and the husband ran it over. Beat that one.
I also had a lady who's husband dropped it into the toilet, her toddler then got a hold of the phone and slobbered all over the phone (why in the hell they let the toddler have it after it dropped in the toilet I don't know) then the toddle dropped it in the driveway and the husband ran it over. Beat that one.
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I have you beat with two different stories.
1) A hispanic family comes in with about 9 people all looking at the phones and accessories. The Grandma who looks to be in her late 70's asks a co-worker of mine to help her with a case for her phone. He asks here where her phone is and at first she looks dumbfounded, kinda like "I don't know". Then she remembers and reaches down into her bra, way down in there, and pulls out her phone and hands it to my co-worker with a grin on her face. She sat and watched as he stretched the leather out so that the case would fit.
It was gross!
I gotta go type other story later.
1) A hispanic family comes in with about 9 people all looking at the phones and accessories. The Grandma who looks to be in her late 70's asks a co-worker of mine to help her with a case for her phone. He asks here where her phone is and at first she looks dumbfounded, kinda like "I don't know". Then she remembers and reaches down into her bra, way down in there, and pulls out her phone and hands it to my co-worker with a grin on her face. She sat and watched as he stretched the leather out so that the case would fit.
It was gross!
I gotta go type other story later.
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I was the manager of a RadioShack in Alaska when a customer came in with a phone that wasn't working. I told her it would be approximagtely 30 minutes before I would be able to look at and would she like to come back. She agreed and while she was gone I was able to take the phone apart and find out what the problem was and before she returned put the phone back together. Here is how the conversation went.
Me: Well I found out why you phone is no longer working.
Customer: Why?
Me: It appears that your phone has water damage and the circuitry inside has shorted out.
Customer: This phone has never gotten wet.
Me: Well the inside of the phone is soaking wet and from the smell of it I would say the phone was dropped in bong ...
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Me: Well I found out why you phone is no longer working.
Customer: Why?
Me: It appears that your phone has water damage and the circuitry inside has shorted out.
Customer: This phone has never gotten wet.
Me: Well the inside of the phone is soaking wet and from the smell of it I would say the phone was dropped in bong ...
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okay, I had a Moto265 (shreek!) that was having audio problems (you don't say). Now, being sick of this particular problem, I decided to explore a bit. Mind you, this phone was out of warrenty already (cracked outer display, scratches). So I take off the faceplate, add a piece of folded paper against the speaker (this seems to fix the 265 sound problem) and low and behold... I take the phone back to the customer and advise them that the phone is oow, explain the cracks, as well as show them the nug of what looked like kind that was caught in the faceplate. This was a mother and son who came in, mind you. Mother gets livid and starts hitting Son in store. "You told me you gave that sh!t up"
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I know I could have just cleaned it out (cough, pocketed it) but it would have only lasted a few minutes. I couldn't stop laughing about it all day.
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I have a lot of good stories but most of them are obscene. From raunchy text messeges to X- rated pics on camera phones. Had one girl come in with liquid damage asked how the phone got wet, she turned bright red said it was embarassing. This of course spiked my interest so I pulled the "Girl Chat" card, I am a woman you can tell me. Let's just say she found another use for "manner mode"
But fav all time story is the dad that came in with his "honor roll student" daughters phone that wasnt turning on. Turned out the battery was dead, gave it a quick charge just to get power. To my surprise when I turned on the phone her greeting was "I love big black (rooster)". I turned the phone off went back up front said to the dad, "the batteries ...
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But fav all time story is the dad that came in with his "honor roll student" daughters phone that wasnt turning on. Turned out the battery was dead, gave it a quick charge just to get power. To my surprise when I turned on the phone her greeting was "I love big black (rooster)". I turned the phone off went back up front said to the dad, "the batteries ...
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The vibration mode is the best feature they could have put on a cell phone. I keep my phone on vibrate "all" the time. Although, I have went to the extend of causing liquid damage.LOL 🤤
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So I used to work for Cellular One in West Texas. One day I got a wierd call at work from a local hospital. The lady on the other end asked me if we carried the motorolla v60. I was like yeah we carry it are you interested in getting one. She said "Well I was wondering, because we just extracted one from a patient's stomach and I thought it looked cute." I sat at my desk in utter shock. I know this doesnt fall into this category but I am assuming that the V60 had some liquid damage. I kept looking for people to come in to "replace" their "lost" V60.
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my friend drunkenly drove over his phone (yeah, shouldn't be drinking and driving in the first place)... but that was about a year ago... the kicker is he still uses it today... it's the most destroyed looking phone i've ever seen that still works.
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weirdest thing on a phone...not actually a problem with the phone itself, but here's my story.
A young attractive blonde girl comes in with her father, her camera phone isnt working properly. One of my sales associates is helping her, and I'm barely paying attention. After a few minutes, he calls me up to assist him, bless his heart. They are trying to get the phone to send picture messages, and for some reason it wont work. So I go to assist, and lo and behold, as I'm scrolling through to find a message to send, there's about a dozen or so pictures of this girl in various stages of undress. And then they got more graphic. We got the problem fixed, it was a simple solution, my sales associate only called me up cause he wanted me t...
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A young attractive blonde girl comes in with her father, her camera phone isnt working properly. One of my sales associates is helping her, and I'm barely paying attention. After a few minutes, he calls me up to assist him, bless his heart. They are trying to get the phone to send picture messages, and for some reason it wont work. So I go to assist, and lo and behold, as I'm scrolling through to find a message to send, there's about a dozen or so pictures of this girl in various stages of undress. And then they got more graphic. We got the problem fixed, it was a simple solution, my sales associate only called me up cause he wanted me t...
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I used to work in a cell phone repair shop.. I've seen just about everything..
My favorite is seeing one that had roach parts in it.. (Legs, body shell, roach poop, etc..) How in the heck does a roach get into a cell phone anyway?
But I have also seen the phones with the dirty pictures, and other obscene stuff. It's more common than you know. With the invention of the cell phone camera, everyone is turning into a voyeur.
My favorite is seeing one that had roach parts in it.. (Legs, body shell, roach poop, etc..) How in the heck does a roach get into a cell phone anyway?
But I have also seen the phones with the dirty pictures, and other obscene stuff. It's more common than you know. With the invention of the cell phone camera, everyone is turning into a voyeur.
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It's amazing how much you learn about your customers goin through their phones.
Hey, am I the only one who has found gay porn on a phone? that was... disturbing to say the least.
Hey, am I the only one who has found gay porn on a phone? that was... disturbing to say the least.
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Why is that more disturbing than say straight porn? Dirty pictures are dirty pictures and should be equally disturbing across the board when you find them on somebody's phone. Not trying to play moral high horse and yes I can see finding pictures like that on the phone pretty uncomfortable because it does give you far to intimate a detail about a person's life.
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I was playing with my managers phone once and was watching a video he took of me at the bar. So I went to the next video, more bar stuff, so I don't think anything of it when I selected the next video. Him and his GF, that was a little unnecessary. Oh well, goes to show you that if you're going to let someone fiddle with your phone for any length of time, you might want to make sure your "personal" stuff is off of it first.
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exactly. is it so much to ask to move your pics off your phone before bringing it in..
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Why do that? They can just put a lock on the pictures/video section of the phone..
But TBH, I like looking at peoples pics.. Especially if the girl bringing the phone in is super hott. Them I'm like hell yeah, I don't have to picture her with her clothes off, I can see it for myself.. LoL!
What I find most funny, espcially while working at my old job, is that they also bought used phones. and it is extremly funny, when say some thugged out black guy, (not trying to seem racist, ok). comes into he store and tries selling us a phone. We also let them know before we buy it, we have to check the serial number with the carier and make sure it's not lost/stolen. They are always like, "Nah, mane. It's not stolen", but then I check the picture...
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But TBH, I like looking at peoples pics.. Especially if the girl bringing the phone in is super hott. Them I'm like hell yeah, I don't have to picture her with her clothes off, I can see it for myself.. LoL!
What I find most funny, espcially while working at my old job, is that they also bought used phones. and it is extremly funny, when say some thugged out black guy, (not trying to seem racist, ok). comes into he store and tries selling us a phone. We also let them know before we buy it, we have to check the serial number with the carier and make sure it's not lost/stolen. They are always like, "Nah, mane. It's not stolen", but then I check the picture...
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I had a (very unattracive) woman about 60 yrs old bring her phone in that had explicit pictues of herself and a equally gross male conterpart. Geez people, don't you know this stuff is on your phone!!!
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I had this redneck woman (not meaning to offend anyone who might be) come into our store. She was pretty ugly. Her phone had all this explicit pictures of herself on it, and a lot of below the belt shots.. Let just say those were HIDEOUS!! It's was all red and swollen looking, and LOTS of razor bumps. There was one that I couldn't tell if she had "man juice" leaking out of it, or some other kind of secretion. My bet is on the later.
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ain't nutn wrong with that.....so long as she's hot and he's not in the picture
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I'm just saying I have to realize that fact every time I sell a phone. If a person says they want a phone with a camera, I know what they're using it for. No one uses it "for work" or "to take pictures of the kids." Every camera phone ever made will photograph one uncovered body part (that is meant to be covered) at one point or another.
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Did you not read my post?? She wasn't hot, she was a nasty looking redneck woman, who's down below area looked as if she had something that ajax wouldn't remove.
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the most racist thing you can do is say "im not trying to be racist" number 2 with a bullet is mispell a word for racist accent affect. Other than that keep up the good work
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Oh no, the fun part is taking the back off the phone in front of the customer mind you, and having live baby roaches crawl out of it! True story. He said he had put the phone in a drawer and wasn't using for a while and wanted to activate again..... Let's just say that I don't hold phones next to my body when I ope tem any more.... 😳
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That is crazy.
One time when I worked at Best Buy as a Geek Squad Agent I opened up a computer for a customer, and there was a dead rat inside! It had chewed on one of the PCI cards and shocked itself. I really don't know how the rat got into the case to begin with...the only holes are about 2 cm wide... 😕
Another good one was where I opened up a computer and fruit flies flew out at me...that was odd. I actually had to quote from the service plan contract that it did not cover infestation.
Last one. One time a guy brought his computer into get it fixed, it was running slowly. I prop it up on the desk and boot it up. Mind you it is a Saturday with a long line after him, so I plan do to a quick diagnosis and put it in lin...
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That is crazy.
One time when I worked at Best Buy as a Geek Squad Agent I opened up a computer for a customer, and there was a dead rat inside! It had chewed on one of the PCI cards and shocked itself. I really don't know how the rat got into the case to begin with...the only holes are about 2 cm wide... 😕
Another good one was where I opened up a computer and fruit flies flew out at me...that was odd. I actually had to quote from the service plan contract that it did not cover infestation.
Last one. One time a guy brought his computer into get it fixed, it was running slowly. I prop it up on the desk and boot it up. Mind you it is a Saturday with a long line after him, so I plan do to a quick diagnosis and put it in lin...
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did you ever have to make any 'anonymous' reports to the local law enforcement about files stored on hard-drives? A friend of mine had a PC repair job and had to do that 3 times in 2 years....nut jobs don't think the stuff can be seen if the PC not working....Actually caught 3 for various crimes involving photos of underage kids and more when the homes of these freaks were raided.
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I never saw any child pornography. I would have reported that if I saw it. It was normal to have one lonely guy with a lot of spyware coming in to have it removed. They always had a ton of porn in their history and in their my documents folder.
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I live in Florida. And for some reason FLorida has got real probs with these types...I mean just watch the news, right...there catch some guy on these cahrges, and where is he? Florida...
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i use to have that when i was a comp. tech. a lot of porn. what's bad though is i worked for my school district. porn on teachers computers they thought was deleted. yeah those were always fun reports to fill out. 😈
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My husband repairs and restores computers here, as well. He's found mice (one was mummified, way over a year dead) gigantic (like three inches long) roaches, spider eggsacs, and rats in computers. He always puts them in a ziploc and shows them to the custies. It's always good for a laugh!
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Whats even worse is when you take off the battery cover and take out the battery and the customer starts to freak out in your store because she thinks your breaking her phone, and then wants to complain to your manager, and then to your manager's boss, all while every other customer in the store is laughing their butts off at her because she is being a freaking idiot.
Honest to God.. This woamn DID freak out over me removing the battery cover and battery from her phone.. What makes it worse, is she came into a CELL PHONE REPAIR STORE! Did she not think that that would not be required or something! Some people freakin amaze me.
Another thing that annoyed me, is this.
Our store bought used cell phones. I really HATED when some geezer wo...
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Honest to God.. This woamn DID freak out over me removing the battery cover and battery from her phone.. What makes it worse, is she came into a CELL PHONE REPAIR STORE! Did she not think that that would not be required or something! Some people freakin amaze me.
Another thing that annoyed me, is this.
Our store bought used cell phones. I really HATED when some geezer wo...
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I've actually had that happen to me. But, not only did live roaches come crawling out...but there were tons of dead ones all over the inside of the phone! (ew!!) (The customer brought the phone in because it wouldn't come on). But no wonder, the disgusting things had crawled in there, used the bathroom...eaten a few things...then died. I gave my co-worker the joy of telling the customers about their bug problem.
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Bleh...How can you not notice ****roaches that crawled in your phone and died. I take my battery out at least once a week, just out of habit...
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I don't know. It was disgusting. I'm wondering why they don't do something about that roach problem...
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Yeah...I was looking at some apartments the other day, really cheap ones. The whole time I'm thinking it's "too good to be true..."
I mean, it was $550/month for a two bedroom with all utilities included...
Then on my little tour throught the kitchen I see a nice little ****roach scuttle across the floor. I looked at the woman, who didn't know what to say, and said, "I'm not interested. Fix your roach problem and I might be." 😎
I mean, it was $550/month for a two bedroom with all utilities included...
Then on my little tour throught the kitchen I see a nice little ****roach scuttle across the floor. I looked at the woman, who didn't know what to say, and said, "I'm not interested. Fix your roach problem and I might be." 😎
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Dude brought one of our loaner phones back yesterday with a bunch of pictures of his 50+ nude mistress all over it. There were pictures of ever part of this woman's body. It was rather hilarious, she was older than my mom!
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In some ways I guess that's sweet, that he can still find her attractive at that age... however if she's not his wife that could be a problem. hmm.
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She had a decent body... But the close ups of the face and genitals was not pretty. 😕
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i did see an lg6000 with all kinds of pics of what had to be an oz. of weed, with the guys posing with it, like they were auditioning their score for HIgh Times..saw another one where a guy was testing his Moto265 and complained of the camera being too dark..i adjusted the contrast and he had photo'd his Tv with a porno on...
later on i changed companies, a couple brought in a pair of lg camera phones to be looked at,,,the wife was European and rather attractive so i looked..and there was a shower pic of her... 😳
later on i changed companies, a couple brought in a pair of lg camera phones to be looked at,,,the wife was European and rather attractive so i looked..and there was a shower pic of her... 😳
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We had one fellow who swore up & down that his phone had no liquid damage, though it was totally soaked in beer. Beer dripped from the phone. He finally admitted that he dropped it into a pitcher.
One lady's phone was destroyed by her own blood. She had a wreck &, calling 911 with her head bleeding, ruined the phone. I also had another lady who kept ruining new startacs by caking them with makeup!
One lady's phone was destroyed by her own blood. She had a wreck &, calling 911 with her head bleeding, ruined the phone. I also had another lady who kept ruining new startacs by caking them with makeup!
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my favorite is I had a customer bring his phone into me. It looked like the phone got in a fight with a lions mouth. There were teeth marks all over it. puncture wounds going all through the phone, hidious. I was shocked when he did not ask if I could fix it but replace it with a dog friendly phone. One that his dog could chew on. I advised him not to let his dog chew on his phone. I told him it would be cheaper just to by your dog a bone. I ended up selling him a new battery. His phone worked fine other than all his screens where busted by the dogs teeth and the fact that at certain angles you could see through the phone. I have no Ideal how it did not mess up the circuit boards.
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Or is that when you intend to fart on someones forehead but a poop comes out instead?
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well if you were ever in a frat then you would know what hazing is....though it is illegal it is still done throughout campuses nationwide.....but in smaller variations....basically when you are initiating someone into the group...or just f*cking around with someone to prove a point....and to demand respect.... 😎
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I was in a frat. They just bought me hookers and blow. Beer too. If that counts as hazing... Your frat musta been a bunch of homos>>>
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no no i wasnt in a frat i was in a club....but one of my home boys was in one and they treated him like sh*t" sh*t....... 😎
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it was a philosophy club....sorry.....where we would just discuss everything from the meaning of life to what would be good to eat with a girl..... 🙂
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yeah nothing like the soothing odor of amonia(human extracts)....to get the blood pumping.... 🤣
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Cust: My phone doesn't work any more. (Hands me his phone.)
Me: What happened to it?
Cust: Dropped it in a septic tank, it worked for a while.
Me: (Drops phone on the floor and ignores what he's saying on my way to the bathroom.)
Two questions. What phone would be worth fishing out of a septic tank? And, why would you put a phone to your face after it was in a septic tank?
Me: What happened to it?
Cust: Dropped it in a septic tank, it worked for a while.
Me: (Drops phone on the floor and ignores what he's saying on my way to the bathroom.)
Two questions. What phone would be worth fishing out of a septic tank? And, why would you put a phone to your face after it was in a septic tank?
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my "friend" did that to me... he brought up his phone to let me have a look at it and i took the battery off, checked for liquid damage, tried to turn it on... then i asked him what happened to it and he told me he dropped into a septic tank at work (he's a plumber)... i immediately put it down and called him a stupid jerk and washed my hands... he was all "what? what's wrong"... i know it's your job to have sh*t up to your elbow all day, but it's not mine!
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I had a little black girl 5'3 come into my store with her boyfriend black also 5'7. She said something was wrong with her phone so I asked to have a look. When I opened the flip I saw a picture of the little black guy totally naked. As if this was not nasty enough he had an ORGAN that went down past his knees. I just started laughing then looked at the guy and said way to go. 🤣 😎
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Reminds me of the song Chain Hang Low by Jibbs.
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(Do your chain hang low
do it wobble to da flo
do it shine n n the light
iz it platinum iz it gold
could u throw it ov'r ya shoulda
if ya hott it make ya cold
do your chain hang low)
Is that your chain!
Bout 24 inches is how low i let it hang
how bout the ride n let the diamonds smoke off the range
just by the chain u can tell the big kid do a stain
u...
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beasta
(Do your chain hang low
do it wobble to da flo
do it shine n n the light
iz it platinum iz it gold
could u throw it ov'r ya shoulda
if ya hott it make ya cold
do your chain hang low)
Is that your chain!
Bout 24 inches is how low i let it hang
how bout the ride n let the diamonds smoke off the range
just by the chain u can tell the big kid do a stain
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couple weeks ago a lady came in here and she had glued real bird feathers to her phone. they were from her birds at her house. Wierdest sh!t i have ever seen in my entire life.
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I have been crackin on this sh*t all morning.. Thanks guys.... 🤣 🤣 🤣 Makes time go by much better. 🙂
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I don't work in an actual store - presales on the website.... I had a lady that wanted to be able to download her adult film collection on VHS to her cell phone. She later asked me: "Do they sell a phone with the ability to slap your kids when they are getting rowdy in the back seat? I hate that! I think that would be every mother's dream actually...i was also interested in the RAZR, however...it sounds dangerous." She also asked if there was any way she could turn off the phone that her son ate with his *freakishly wide mouth*. Quoted directly from the chat: Visitor: no..but I'd like to know how the hell to turn that damn phone off or get it out of him...it's ruining family gatherings. The kids call him "ring-a-ding"' and ask him "can y...
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sometimes i want to go and talk to them while i'm at work... when it asks if i want to chat with a rep i want to say yes and then tell them funny stories and jokes... god i get really bored at work...
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