Today's silly phone call

I invariably reply to cold calls as my alter ego, the housekeeper who knows nothing about her boss's activities or arrangements. I once told someone that my employer had gone on holiday. "Oh that's lovely, where to?" so I said he was in Miami. Several weeks later, the same person rang and asked if the boss was back from Miami and had he had a good time...I wondered what on earth he was talking about as of course I'd forgotten this particular piece of fiction!

After what seemed like the fiftieth cold call of the day I blew up and told the caller to "p**s off" (Unlike me, but waiting for a call from hospital)
"Sorry" said a small voice "Just letting you know your contact lenses are ready to collect"
I then had to go and face him!

I’ve done something similar cavewoman, I told a call (after a mile expletive) to go away as I was waiting for a call from the hospital - and it was the hospital.

That was back in the days when such things happened. Of course, nowadays our hospital never rings back!

We just don't answer ANY calls that aren't ID ( on my phone book) ..... the exception being local numbers as might be hospital/ dentists/ doctors. Why these three medico's can't show their numbers is beyond my ken!? They are ALL on our phone book so why 'withhold ' them?? So b_____y annoying. They're not that special. But I did stand at double glazed front door staring out over double glazed front windows the other day trying to explain to a very young man that my generation does NOT 'update' for the sake of updating. We need a good reason to spend our hard earned pensions.

last time these "people "rang i made out it was my son calling before he could say anything i gave him a shopping list as long as my arm ! he rang off though ,how rude LOL

I had a “have you had an accident in the last two years?” Call. I told her no, I hadn’t, fortunately. She then enquired “are you going to have one?” I had to hang up. I was laughing too much to speak. Must have been getting desperate for a customer.

The annoying calls are down to just one or two a week now but a few years ago I would get five or six a day. After two or three calls I started asking the caller to hold the line while I transferred them to our fraud department, that cleared the line sharpish.

I had a call last week.
Do you get nuisance phone calls ?
Yes I've got one at the moment.
No, seriously, do you get nuisance calls ?
Yes, I've got one now, the proof of the pudding is in the eating.
Silence, then click.

I used to live in France, in the middle of nowhere and one day had a visit from the JW, who spoke to me (in French). At the end of their diatribe, during which I could not get a word in sideways, I informed them, totally untruthfully, that I didn't speak French. Their answer was that they had an outwork team in Caen, some 50 miles off, and would send them round...