Phone rings: "We have an open spot for you on our bitcoin trading platform"
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"Oh, interesting, cool." "Do you have your computer nearby." "yeah sure, just hold the line please." (Types code, time passes) "Adam, are you there?" "yeah sure, just a moment" (Keeps on coding, more time passes) "Adam?" "yes yeah sorry" (Keeps on coding, more time passes) "Adam, can you hear me?" "mmmmh yeah of course" (Keeps on coding, more time passes) And repeat! I manage waste some 15 minutes of the elephanter's time. A new record! :cool: At least one old lady saved.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
... after ten minutes, applies airhorn to telephone: "Oh, sorry - IBS". Continue coding ...
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"Oh, interesting, cool." "Do you have your computer nearby." "yeah sure, just hold the line please." (Types code, time passes) "Adam, are you there?" "yeah sure, just a moment" (Keeps on coding, more time passes) "Adam?" "yes yeah sorry" (Keeps on coding, more time passes) "Adam, can you hear me?" "mmmmh yeah of course" (Keeps on coding, more time passes) And repeat! I manage waste some 15 minutes of the elephanter's time. A new record! :cool: At least one old lady saved.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
Tip of the hat to you sir! Best I have got is 10 Mins...
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"Oh, interesting, cool." "Do you have your computer nearby." "yeah sure, just hold the line please." (Types code, time passes) "Adam, are you there?" "yeah sure, just a moment" (Keeps on coding, more time passes) "Adam?" "yes yeah sorry" (Keeps on coding, more time passes) "Adam, can you hear me?" "mmmmh yeah of course" (Keeps on coding, more time passes) And repeat! I manage waste some 15 minutes of the elephanter's time. A new record! :cool: At least one old lady saved.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
I'm rethinking my hang-up without saying a word habit... Your method seems far more enjoyable.
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"Oh, interesting, cool." "Do you have your computer nearby." "yeah sure, just hold the line please." (Types code, time passes) "Adam, are you there?" "yeah sure, just a moment" (Keeps on coding, more time passes) "Adam?" "yes yeah sorry" (Keeps on coding, more time passes) "Adam, can you hear me?" "mmmmh yeah of course" (Keeps on coding, more time passes) And repeat! I manage waste some 15 minutes of the elephanter's time. A new record! :cool: At least one old lady saved.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
megaadam wrote:
At least one old lady saved.
Excellent! I play Words with Friends, and it's sad how people (when I actually have a free slot) ask to play a game with me, make a couple lame moves and start chatting and trying to get me to invest in bitcoin or binary trading. It's fun telling the latter that binary trading is illegal in almost every country, and then reporting and blocking them. :) Same with the bitcoin people, BTW.
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"Oh, interesting, cool." "Do you have your computer nearby." "yeah sure, just hold the line please." (Types code, time passes) "Adam, are you there?" "yeah sure, just a moment" (Keeps on coding, more time passes) "Adam?" "yes yeah sorry" (Keeps on coding, more time passes) "Adam, can you hear me?" "mmmmh yeah of course" (Keeps on coding, more time passes) And repeat! I manage waste some 15 minutes of the elephanter's time. A new record! :cool: At least one old lady saved.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
My phones (POI Land lines) have a spam-call blocker in running (works pretty well). Of those that get through, if I don't see a caller I know then I don't answer. I didn't realize, until now, what I have been missing !
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megaadam wrote:
At least one old lady saved.
Excellent! I play Words with Friends, and it's sad how people (when I actually have a free slot) ask to play a game with me, make a couple lame moves and start chatting and trying to get me to invest in bitcoin or binary trading. It's fun telling the latter that binary trading is illegal in almost every country, and then reporting and blocking them. :) Same with the bitcoin people, BTW.
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"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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"Oh, interesting, cool." "Do you have your computer nearby." "yeah sure, just hold the line please." (Types code, time passes) "Adam, are you there?" "yeah sure, just a moment" (Keeps on coding, more time passes) "Adam?" "yes yeah sorry" (Keeps on coding, more time passes) "Adam, can you hear me?" "mmmmh yeah of course" (Keeps on coding, more time passes) And repeat! I manage waste some 15 minutes of the elephanter's time. A new record! :cool: At least one old lady saved.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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"Oh, interesting, cool." "Do you have your computer nearby." "yeah sure, just hold the line please." (Types code, time passes) "Adam, are you there?" "yeah sure, just a moment" (Keeps on coding, more time passes) "Adam?" "yes yeah sorry" (Keeps on coding, more time passes) "Adam, can you hear me?" "mmmmh yeah of course" (Keeps on coding, more time passes) And repeat! I manage waste some 15 minutes of the elephanter's time. A new record! :cool: At least one old lady saved.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
I know one "old lady" (my mother-in-law) who at 90 years of age while immobile & bored due to a hip operation managed to keep a scammer (who wanted to help her remove viruses from her computer) on the line for an hour and a half. She told them her computer was upstairs & it would take her a while to get up there to turn it on. She put them on hold. Eventually, they hung up & called her back & she said "Oh yes, I forgot where I was going. I'll try again." Ditto with variations two more times. Finally, she said, "I'm upstairs now & I just remembered I don't have a computer." The language at the other end was not too pleasant but she dined out on that story for several weeks!
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"Oh, interesting, cool." "Do you have your computer nearby." "yeah sure, just hold the line please." (Types code, time passes) "Adam, are you there?" "yeah sure, just a moment" (Keeps on coding, more time passes) "Adam?" "yes yeah sorry" (Keeps on coding, more time passes) "Adam, can you hear me?" "mmmmh yeah of course" (Keeps on coding, more time passes) And repeat! I manage waste some 15 minutes of the elephanter's time. A new record! :cool: At least one old lady saved.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
I act confused and after 30 min say, look, there's no start button on my Apple Mac.
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I know one "old lady" (my mother-in-law) who at 90 years of age while immobile & bored due to a hip operation managed to keep a scammer (who wanted to help her remove viruses from her computer) on the line for an hour and a half. She told them her computer was upstairs & it would take her a while to get up there to turn it on. She put them on hold. Eventually, they hung up & called her back & she said "Oh yes, I forgot where I was going. I'll try again." Ditto with variations two more times. Finally, she said, "I'm upstairs now & I just remembered I don't have a computer." The language at the other end was not too pleasant but she dined out on that story for several weeks!
