Just As I Thought

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I have a toll-free 800 number, which enables some of my relatives to call me without paying long distance. At least, that was the original goal. In practice, it serves as an annoyance, ringing off the hook with wrong numbers.
It used to be that I would get at least one call per day from someone wanting phone repairs — evidently, operators at he Commonwealth Telephone Company were giving out my number as the repair department. A call to a Commonwealth vice president made the calls slow down, but they’re still coming.
I’ve gotten calls for several other companies as well, from all areas of business. But today, I was rather put off by a seemingly doddering old man who was really obnoxious.
He seemed very put out that I was not NetZero Internet, and no matter how many times I told him he had a wrong number, he seemed to think it was me who was wrong. Yes, I understood that the operator had given him this number, but sir, the operator was mistaken. No, I am not trying to mislead you; no, I am not lying. No sir, I do not know anything about your NetZero account. No, I don’t know who you should speak to.
In fact, if I had any brains at all, I’d have instead said something like, “Yes sir, I’d be pleased to help you. May I have your credit card number please?”

2 comments

  • I read the other post first, then this one.
    Sorry.
    Anyhoo I’m tbinking of a nice Harmon Kardon AV 125 or 225, depends.
    I’ll give you a call on this in a day or so as I need to check on some….angles.

  • I used to have the same problem when I was at University (how British) as there was a pizza place that had a number that was one off from ours (mine and my roomate’s).
    Anyway it was annoying at first, then we started taking orders which was pretty funny. But then we got a call from the pizza place asking us to stop taking orders, and they were REALLY rude.
    So then, instead of taking orders we simply said to the caller “yes we deliver, but not to anyone of color. You are white aren’t you?”

    Man that still makes me laugh.

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