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Originally Posted by arjaybe
That's a brilliant idea. Something like engaging a telemarketer with some unrelated nonsense. "You're selling double-glazing? That reminds me of my grandfather's storm windows. Let me tell you ..."
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That reminded of something I accidentally did to a caller one day at work. I answered the phone and the guy was mumbling like he was holding the mouthpiece on his chin. Since we were a maintenance company and I didn't want to risk being rude to a regular customer (or even a new customer), I kept politely telling him that I really couldn't understand him, could he please speak up a bit more. This went on for a good 3 minutes and he finally hung up. And in the next few seconds some of the words started sinking in... I guess my mind was just strictly on business calls from our customers.
I think I was responsible for creating the world's most frustrated obscene phone caller.
I was actually looking forward to my next obscene caller so I could do it again intentionally, but no such luck. Not ever, not even at home.
Of course at home, I'd give a person maybe 3 seconds to speak up before I'd hang up. And that's if I'd answer the phone at all.