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18 June 2019 at 14:13
Just
found a new way of getting rid of satellite cold calls.
Phone
rings, I pick it up and say
“Hello?”
"Hello,
Miss Benton Bag?"
“Who is
that?”
"I'm
Alex, I'm calling you from Aviva ..."
“Alex
what?”
"My
name is Alex."
“I know
that, but you know both my first and second names, I want to know both your
first and second names.”
And with
that, there he was gone!
Presumably
the script hadn't thought to give him a suitably Anglophone surname to work
with.
18 June 2019 at 14:24
Second
cold call, this time on the mobile from Mark of O2 (I'm sure they rang last
week as well).
"Hello,
are you looking to upgrade your phone or tariff at all?"
I laughed
and explained that my mobile is a little Nokia held together with sellotape and
when it finally dies I shall go to a shop and buy another that will cost me all
of nineteen quid, but I would quite like to reduce my tariff.
"Are
we giving you enough data?"
“Data! What's data? Let me explain Mark. My phone is so old the game is Snake, and if
friends with a smartphone send me a photo all I get is a couple of little
squares at the bottom of the text.”
"Oh
real old school!"
“Yes. Would it cost less if I went onto pay-as-you-go rather than monthly?”
"To
be honest, no, and you'd have the hassle of having to go in and top up."
“Well,
yes, when the text with the bill comes in I say 'bugger' and then forget about
it for the next 28 days.”
We
decided for convenience sake just to leave things as they are.
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