Phoney funny phone calls.......

 

Do you get many of these?  Do these callers irritate you?  If so, you certainly are not alone.  It seems that around five o'clock in the afternoon has been logged onto their computers as a good time to call and pester me.

 

However, instead of getting mad and upsetting yourself, have a little fun with them instead.  The following are my tips for enjoying these calls.....

 

Firstly, when they ask " Am I speaking with so and so?". I always rebound with "Who is calling?"  This seems to throw them a little bit off balance and they don't get to ask me how I am, as if they cared!!

 

So, here some of my ways of dealing with these jackals trying to consume any part of my virtual life that they can get their virtual fangs into.

 

When I am feeling bright, I go into my "Italian" mode.  I speak to them in my limited and, no doubt, broken Italian.  After they get sick of my heavily accented "Do you speak Italian?" routine and my chatting , they generally give up, and I don't get calls for a while from this centre.

 

Then, there are the calls allegedly from Microsoft. "Can I speak to the owner of the computer? There is something wrong with it". At this, my answer is that the owner is dead. This generally elicits a moment of silence and expressions of sympathy. However, one cheeky chappie had the gall to ask me who had the computer now, so I told him I had buried it. End of story. No more calls at the moment

 

The easiest one is to just ask the person to hold the line, and then put the phone down for five minute or so. This generally gives them the message.

 

So, don't be angry, get even and have a laugh on them.