A woman calls up the store today and the first thing out of her mouth is: “I’ve probably got the weirdest question you’ve ever heard…”

Not the best way to start a conversation. So I buckle down, waiting for the weirdest thing to ever come out of someone’s mouth to hit me in the face. She tells me about how she recently moved her system and all of the wires popped out of the back. She tried to put them back in, but it’s not working. Does anyone ever come out to fix such a thing?

She stops talking and I wait for the bombshell to hit. There is a long pause, where no one says anything. Finally, I ask: “Is that it?”

“Yeah, do you guys do that sort of thing?”

That’s the weirdest question I’ve ever heard? Honey, I’m not sure that even makes the Top One-Thousand. In fact, that’s probably in the Top Five of MOST COMMON QUESTIONS WE GET.

I tell her that it’s not really that weird a question. In fact, it is such a simple problem that I can probably talk her through it over the phone. And I do. And she thanks me, seemingly pleased with the result of the conversation.

It’s not like I do this sort of thing every day. Oh wait, I DO.

People are weird, sometimes.