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Earlier…	Later…
The Phone Book	Juicing the Orange

Ghost in the Machine

Thu 27 Jul 02006 01:40 PM
Business
2 comments

My landline phone just rang. Here’s the how the “conversation” went:

Me: Hello? ... silence … Automated Female Voice: Hello. This is BT. Unfortunately, we’re not able to talk to you right now…

The voice said something else after that, but to be honest I was just so bemused that I couldn’t listen properly. Thanks for letting me know you couldn’t talk to me, BT. I’ll sleep much better for knowing that.

Jessica wrote at 02:19 PM on 27 Jul 2006

My favorite is when I pick up the phone and hear, "please hold for an important call." Right! If it’s so important why couldn’t a human call me?

I don’t get those any more, now that I’m unlisted and on the national Do Not Call list.

dwlt wrote at 04:16 PM on 27 Jul 2006

I assume they were telling me that they weren’t calling regarding my complaint over the fact I received a phone book. It’s 30 seconds of my life I won’t get back, never mind the 10 minutes I’ve spent writing about it. ;-)

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