Have you had an accident in the last three years?

[Modette]

I must be really bored and I get one of these calls at least once a week but today I decided to waste some of THIER time.

So I politely explained that yes, I had an accident 3 weeks ago, I was on an airplane over the atlantic and I went to use the ladies room, only to find that the signs were mixed up and I actually opened the door and fell out of the plane!

He then asked me what airline was with , I said 'Air India' and he wanted to know what I did once I had fallen.

I explained that a ship just happened to be passing and saw me fall from the sky, they fished me out of the water and kindly brought me home.

He then asked if I wanted to make a claim against them. I said well yes of course because you should be able to take a trip to the ladies without worrying that you are going to open the wrong door and fall out right??

Then he asked if I was injured and I said yes, I broke two nail extensions, laddered my stocking and got seaweed in my hair that was hell to get out. I also lost a shoe and they were my favourites.

When he asked my name I said Morticia Adams and he said he has to speak to his supervisor as they usually only deal with car accidents, so he will call me back and let me know if they can help me. Bless him.

 

[Most Easterly Pandas]

 

[PuntoHowTo]

:yeahthat:

 

[sludgeguts]

When I signed up with the TPS, all these calls stopped for a while - but now all these companies use call centres in india, they seem to be exempt from UK laws.
So my latest gadget in the war against these wasters is a neat little app called 'mosquito'
When you open the app, it offers you a choice of tones ranging from 9kHz to 20kHz.

Being an old fart, I can only hear to 13kHz so I generally start off at 14kHz & get Mr Patel to repeat everything he says. I explain that I have bad tinnitus & often get a loud noise in my ear which seems to drown out what others are saying :devil:

If I'm feeling in a really playfull mood, I don't use the app - instead, I simply repeat everything they say - as though I misheard :devil:

 

[homeward]

On the subject of cold-calling, I found this quite amusing....

I hope you get your nail extensions sorted soon....

 

[Modette]

When I signed up with the TPS, all these calls stopped for a while - but now all these companies use call centres in india, they seem to be exempt from UK laws.
So my latest gadget in the war against these wasters is a neat little app called 'mosquito'
When you open the app, it offers you a choice of tones ranging from 9kHz to 20kHz.

Being an old fart, I can only hear to 13kHz so I generally start off at 14kHz & get Mr Patel to repeat everything he says. I explain that I have bad tinnitus & often get a loud noise in my ear which seems to drown out what others are saying :devil:

If I'm feeling in a really playfull mood, I don't use the app - instead, I simply repeat everything they say - as though I misheard :devil:

They dont call my mobile they call the house phone:bang:

 

[PuntoHowTo]

So my latest gadget in the war against these wasters is a neat little app called 'mosquito'
When you open the app, it offers you a choice of tones ranging from 9kHz to 20kHz.

Being an old fart, I can only hear to 13kHz so I generally start off at 14kHz & get Mr Patel to repeat everything he says.

As standard voice calls only carry frequencies between 0 and 4khz the caller at the other end of the phone line won't hear anything outside of this range so this app is a bit pointless

 

[james44422]

This is the best thing i've read all day!

I get calls like this all the day at work, promising to improve our SEO, I love just seeing how much of their time I can possibly waste but never gone this far

 

[Kier]

Love it!

I had one recently.

Them: Mr Kier, I understand you've had an accident last yeah.
Me: yep.
T: Did you know you could make a claim?
M: No I didn't.
T: Yep, you can claim for any injuries to you or your passengers.
M: ooooo, sounds good.
T: Did you have any I injuries?
M: Yeah I lost my left leg.
T: Oh that's bad. Did you have any passengers?
M: yeah my 9 month old sister.
T: did she have any injuries?
M: oh I've just found my leg, it was under my blanket.

They didn't find it as funny as I did .

 

[pooroldcodger]

Usually I just hang up, but it is fun to think of different ways of putting them off.
I recently just started howling in mid-sentence, like a werewolf type noise. I've got no idea why.
They hung up retty sharp-ish.

 

[sludgeguts]

As standard voice calls only carry frequencies between 0 and 4khz the caller at the other end of the phone line won't hear anything outside of this range so this app is a bit pointless

Well you learn something new every day.

 

[pooroldcodger]

On the subject of cold-calling, I found this quite amusing....

I hope you get your nail extensions sorted soon....

Not to mention the stocking...