I called Carlisle shipping, again, about our missing Audrey II puppets. The representative at one point said, “That poor little lost puppet.”
Hm… Audrey II, little? I don’t think so. I realized that she was thinking of someone’s sock puppet or something, so I said, “Actually, there were four puppets in the case and they were very large… They are theatrical puppets, not toys. You know, we haven’t talked about this yet, but $10,000 worth of puppets were in that crate.”
Stunned silence, interrupted only by a slight choking sound, fills the space between us. “I– I had no idea. I didn’t mean to be offensive when I said ‘little lost puppet.'”
“Oh, I know. But it made me realize that there might be a misunderstanding about what exactly was lost.”
So, I’m being passed off to someone else. She said I would have an email shortly but evidently our definition of “shortly” is a different as our definition of puppet.
I love the reaction. Hope you get some results soon! Maybe now that they realize the value, they’ll do better at locating them.
I hate that Audrey II is lost, but it makes for a great post in your blog. Are you sure you aren’t making this up?