a few years back
I was doing tech support for a healthcare firm, mostly we spoke to nurses who were good, hardworking folk, but not the most technically literate.

As the hardware expert, I was sitting with Anna, the program expert and a manager talking to a lady in the deep south(US) on a speakerphone. Anna asked the woman to please close all the windows, and the woman replied in a long drawl, "You mean in the whole building?"

Anna immediately muted the speakerphone and we all broke out in gales of laughter that had the whole office floor sticking their heads out of their cubicles.
( Purple Onion, Tue 11 Jan 2005, 20:23, Reply)