Bed Bugs? . . . in your BRAIN

Ok so a lady just called the office. Said she had studied public health at _____ university. She would like to talk to the Chair of the Division. "He's in a meeting can I take a message?" "Can I talk to one of the other faculty members?" "Can you tell me what you're interested in so I can direct you to the correct professor." It's now that she starts rattling on about how there are bedbugs at Florida University and a Texas and that it was FRONT PAGE NEWS. She wants me to transfer her to a professor to TALK to them about bedbugs. I say aren't there over the counter items for this problem. She wants to talk to a professor about creating a new chemical to get rid of them. She tells me that they are hard to erradicate and smart people at MIT helped figure it out. That these particular ones are resistant.

I finally decide she's a TOTAL crack-pot and I offer to take her name and phone number and e-mail around the info. She natters on and doesn't take my hint. I say "The faculty are not really interested in the topic of bedbugs."

She says "how do you know."

I say "I'm sorry but I know the faculty will not be interested in talking to her about this issue."

She says "Pink power to you and the white power will win someday and you will get your cumuppance" (Or something to that effect).

Love working here.