Cold Callers

[Augustus]

I know it's only someone trying to make a living and probably in a worse situation than my privileged western lifestyle, but...

*Hello...

*Hello.......

Ah, how are you today?

*I'm not interested thanks.

Ah, how can you not be interested when you don't know what I am calling about Sir?

*What are you selling?

Why do you think I am trying to sell you something sir?

*You've got five seconds to tell me what you are doing interrupting my sacred afternoon Nutella moment....

But why do you think....

*3 seconds,

Sir, i'm from the blah blah blah electricity suppli.......

Phonedunked.



Nutella afternoon mojo / life balance now out of kilter.

Might have to redress with an iced spiced bun on the train home. And try again.

Non cake eaters and telesales tools alike do not understand that cake mojo relies on so much more than the snack. it's about the zone.



:roll:

 

[FMJ]

my sacred afternoon Nutella moment....

I misread that and spewed a bit of coffee.

We get them at work (cell based at home - no cold calls). They always ask for the owner by name, but can never pronounce it right. Like you, I hang up, but I usually smash the microphone end of the receiver up against my filing cabinet a few time first.

 

[Lysander]

I just have a recording of the countdown clock music I play down the phone to them................

 

[David B]

All I can think of right now is the scene in Reggie Perrin where Martin Clunes simply picks up the phone, decides he can't be bothered and puts it in the waste paper basket.

David

 

[gibbleking]

i let them get half way thru the speech then just hang up..its my aim in life to demoralise as many of the swine as possible........burn them darling burn then..

 

[Carge]

Has anyone heard the one by the comedian Tom Mabe - when he's called by a telemarketer, he pretends to be be a police officer at a murder scene and scares the watnots out of the guy who called him - it's very very funny.

 

[JohnH]

My dad was in the financial services industry in the 1990s; when any cold callers phoned up trying to flog their wares, dad would use the opportunity to try to sell them an insurance policy or pension.

It wasn't dad who was desperate to end the call...

 

[Neil]

Has anyone heard the one by the comedian Tom Mabe - when he's called by a telemarketer, he pretends to be be a police officer at a murder scene and scares the watnots out of the guy who called him - it's very very funny.

Yes, listened to it many times, even made some loose references to it...

big grins

 

[drcarlos]

Has anyone heard the one by the comedian Tom Mabe - when he's called by a telemarketer, he pretends to be be a police officer at a murder scene and scares the watnots out of the guy who called him - it's very very funny.

You mean this one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkdoogjic4I

very funny

Carl.

 

[drcarlos]

Teach me to spend ten minutes listening to it again :roll:

Carl.