"Halmyre" wrote in message
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On Mar 6, 8:43 pm, Gib Bogle wrote:
On 7/03/2013 9:16 a.m., John Williamson wrote:





On 06/03/2013 20:00, Gib Bogle wrote:
On 7/03/2013 1:25 a.m., brass monkey wrote:
Just had a call from 06041623 -
My name is garble (female) phoning on behalf of garble garble. Is
your
name
... ... of this address .... .....
Me: It might be
Her: Can I ask a few questions?
Me: go on then
Her: Calls may be recorded for training etc etc
How do you pronounce your christian name?
Me: Hang on a sec, what are you selling, where are you going with
this?
Her: You ****in' *******.
Me: LMFAO and thanked her very much.

Half an hour earlier we had some hawker at the door, wifey answered
it
and
was chatting for quite a while. She came in and said this guy is
selling all
sorts of stuff like this chamois leather for £15, he says he's been a
bad
boy but is trying to change his life etc etc, yes, I know, hook line
and
sinker. So I kindly asked him to sling his hook.
Geeeeeeeeez.

I occasionally get a call (presumably automated) that is just silence
for a few seconds, then a woman's voice says "goodbye". The voice is
always exactly the same, i.e. it's recorded.

When people call talking about a survey, or mentioning the name of a
product or company, I just say "Not interested thanks" and hang up. I
actually feel a bit sorry for the people with these ****ty jobs. I
wouldn't have felt sorry for your caller, but then she never would
have
got the chance to swear at me.

On the rare ocasions when I beat the fax machine to these calls, they
all seem to be for either someone who no longer lives here (Wink, wink)
or they get the stated choice of hanging up now or random answers to
all
their questions.

I'm pleasantly surprised by the lack of clue by the callers that
doesn't
get me put on to junk fax lists.

My wife, who lies convincingly, sometimes tell them that the person they
ask for died recently. She spins a good story - I do not have the
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Me neither. My mum did the "put the phone down and walk away" thing
once, but I just say "sorry, not interested", and hang up. Same reply
to door-steppers.

I once answered the door and there was a young guy whose opening line
was "I'm here to test-drive the Alfa".

"But it's not for sale", I replied, slightly bewildered.

"OK, I'm just joking, I'm collecting on behalf of XYZ" he said,
starting to realise what turn events had just taken.

I think he realised by the look on my face, shortly before the door
blocked it from his view , that he wasn't going to have much luck.

Thing was, IIRC, he was collecting for something I actually might have
contributed to, under other circumstances. Hey-ho.

Except that you wouldn't have been contributing in any useful sense. 90% if
it goes into his pocket

tim