Person calling customer service doesn't expect them to answer right away, accidentally greets his cat in the most hilarious way, bewildering the attendant: 'He immediately in a semi-horrified, semi-confused voice answers “Hello…?”'

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Mariel Ruvinsky • Writer and Editor
Jun 19, 2025 10:00 AM EDT

The thing is… we know that we talk to our cats a little too much sometimes. We're aware. We just… don't care. Having conversations with our cats is fun. And yes, we do mean having conversations. Yes, full-blown conversations with them. Because cats talk back to us all the time, and just because we don't understand exactly what they are saying, and they don't fully understand what we are saying, does not mean that we should be impolite and ignore them. 

Cats like it when we talk with them, and we like it too, so what's the harm, right? Well, usually, there isn't. When you are alone in your house, having even one of those full-blown conversations with your cats is completely fine. But if someone hears you two… well, then things might get a little awakward. Especially if some of the nicknames that you have for your cats might be a little bit weird, and the phone receptionist at customer service doesn't realize it's the cat that you are talking to.

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    "[Today I messed up] by greeting my cat while on the phone"

    "I was expecting it to ring for a couple minutes... My mistake."
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    Throwaway because I am legitimately so embarrassed lol. Important background fact: I call my cat White Boy as a nickname. It's a long story about how that came about, but the end result is we lovingly refer to him as White Boy when he enters a room.
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    So, I have to pick up a prescription at Costco, but I'm not feeling well and wanted to double check that my partner could just go straight into the pharmacy and pick it up for me without my Costco card since they're doing the scanning machines now and decided to call our specific club just to make sure - better safe than sorry.
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    I live in a pretty small state with one real city, so most of the time when I call a place I'm on hold for a good bit since everyone kinda flocks to the city for everything - so I was expecting it to ring for a couple minutes before an attendant picked up (My mistake. I've never had to call Costco before and didn't realize their team is On It).
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    So, I'm mentally prepped to basically have my phone on standby for a bit when my cat jumps on the bed. As always, I very excitedly greet him with "Hi, White Boy!" as the call rings one singular time and the attendant picks up.
    via askthrowaway2024
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    He immediately in a semi- horrified, semi-confused voice answers "Hello...?" and I was so mortified that I couldn't bring myself to clarify and simply barreled through with my question. and was promptly transferred to the appropriate department.
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    TL;DR greeted my cat in a way that was very likely received as racially insensitive by a Costco employee while on a call. Received great customer service.
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  • This… is perfect. This whole story is absolutely hilarious, and we thank you for sharing it with us. And just think, really, this could have been much worse at the end of the day. You could have said that during a work meeting or something, and that is not fun. Trust us, we have been there. 

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    No_Fudge1228 OP's cat is the opposite of HP Lovecraft's cat
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    askthrowaway2024 OP This genuinely made me laugh out loud holy sh
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    KittyChimera That's kind of the best. My cat is named Batty and I call him Batshit sometimes. I was working from home and was on a really boring meeting with my whole department (75+ people) and didn't realized that I had accidentally unmuted myself and my cat walked up. In the middle of the director giving some kind of talk, I went "What are you doing, Batshit?" just in a conversational voice.
    via KittyChimera
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    The director stopped abruptly and someone said "hey, [my name], you're not on mute". It was so freaking awkward. I tried to explain it was my cat and his name was Batty and I wasn't calling our director Batshit and I wanted to immediately log out and crawl under a rock lol.
    via KittyChimera
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  • Some things simply cannot be explained. The way that we talk to our cats sometimes… if someone heard us doing it from the outside, we would not be surprised if they thought some weird things about us. That's just what it's like to have a cat. 

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    peanut_flamer I really hope the person who answered the phone was Black and confused as h_l...
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    EniNeutrino I'm sorry you were embarrassed, but thanks so much for sharing, that cracked me up! I could totally see myself doing that.
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    FoSheepish Despite racial profiling, you received great customer service. A testament to Costco.
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    amsterdamitaly I have a friend that refers to one of her parents 3 cats as White Boy Wednesday, and will often excitedly say "It's White Boy Wednesday!" when he enters a room. I can 100% see this happening to her too Imao
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    mc_rma I would have just hung up, waited 5 minutes, and called back. Ain't no way they have caller ID...
    via mc_rma

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