Monday, July 07, 2008

Confession



Lately, I've developed the habit of assuming that any male with a foreign accent who calls for me is a telemarketer. The conversation goes like this:

(Phone Rings)

Me: Hello?

(Long pause while the calling machine connects me with the presumed telemarketer)

Foreign Man: Hello. Yes. May I speak with Jenny-fer?

Me: (Adopting a very sorrowful tone) I'm so sorry, she died a couple of months ago.

Foreign Man: (Sounding very non-sorrowful) So Sorry. Click.

4 Comments:

Blogger Laurita said...

Brilliant. I'm stealing it.

4:29 AM  
Blogger Bike said...

just get on the no-call-list...

https://www.donotcall.gov/

8:07 AM  
Blogger Juanita said...

I'm already on the stinking no-call list.

11:57 AM  
Blogger cookie monster said...

We get that too, over here in Blighty. I just like to mimic their accent in an ever slightly offensive way.

It confuses the hell out of them.

11:24 PM  

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