You have been spoiled by not working in customer service. I tried to fulfill concierge requests that resembled this all the time (taken in by other actual employees, passed over to me for I don't even know what!)

I'm not sure what the funniest thing I've ever seen on the Internet is, but I just saw this yesterday and it was pretty funny. http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/08/tiger-oil-memos.html