We recently returned to the world of land-line phones after a little over a year of only using cell phones. Among the Things I Had Forgotten About Land-line Phones:
The phone rang a few minutes ago. I hauled myself out of the recliner (it requires an elaborate winch system these days) and waddled over to the wall to pick it up. Because our phone is attached to the wall! Oh, the inconvenience!
Anyway, I winched, waddled and picked up the phone, and there was the tell-tale silence that generally precludes the sales pitch. And then there was a fog horn.
Eh?
Following the fog horn: “Hello! This is your captain speaking! You can earn a cruise to the Bahamas just by answering 10 questions!”
And that was the dumbest sales call I’ve ever received.
The end.