I love screwing with cold-callers.

[Taxloss]

It's 3.05pm on a Saturday afternoon in the UK, and I'm sitting at my computer trying to work but mostly staring into space, feeling bored and feeling mischievous. Then - the desk phone rings! It's a cold-caller from Liquid Telecom, and he has great news about my long-distance rates!

Cold caller: Do you make many long-distance calls?

Taxloss: Umm ... some.

CC: So you'd say a few?

T (getting bolder): A few, but they're mainly to outer space. To the Mir space station.

CC: Uh ... so you make international calls?

T: I'm sorry, I'm going to have to end this conversation, I'm being attacked by lobsters.

Click, brrrr.

:rofl:

Any favourite strategies for cold-callers?

[Gormy Cuss]

1. It's the girlfriend calling

When a female calls and asks for my SO and refuses to identify the company, I launch into a rant " I knew it! I knew it! That bastard is still cheating on me! What gutter did he find YOU in? "

Works every time.