Hubby is every telemarketers’ nightmare call.  Seriously.  Take for instance today.  He got a call this morning from someone selling websites.  I’m not sure of the details but I know for sure that person was wondering what she got herself into.  After her sales pitch, hubby started drilling her with questions about “free gifts”.  He put her on speaker phone so I could hear the frustration in her voice.  She kept explaining that there was no gift then proceeded to tell him the offer again.  He continued asking her questions about the offer then said he wanted to be sure he understood so he asked her to repeat it again.  By this time, I’m in the other room cracking up because it reminded me of this CD I heard where a guy calls a Filipino restaurant and orders Hawaiian food then the person on the other line starts getting frustrated and eventually hangs up.  Well, she must have been very desperate for a sale because after an hour, she was still explaining the offer to him.

Finally, he tells her he’ll pass on the offer and she starts laughing.  By then he can’t keep his laughter in so she asks him how old he was.  Then he makes her guess his age, she guessed mid-thirties but she has an accent so it sounds like “THIRTEEN”.  Then she tells him that he’s kept her on the phone for an hour and he passes??? So he tells her he was interested in the offer until she laughed at him.  That was it, I was laughing so hard my stomach ached.  So in the end, she didn’t make her sale and she ended up wasting 1 1/2 hours on the phone with him.But then the same company called in the evening giving the same sales pitch and he did the same thing again.  He came to show me how long he kept that telemarketer on the phone before putting her on speaker phone again.  This time, the lady wasn’t as patient with him as the person from the morning shift but it was still funny to hear her get frustrated with him.  In the end, she hung up on him because he said he was interested until she started to give him “attitude”.   This is like reverse crank-calling.  See what happens when retired people have all the time in the world to give to telemarketers.  ~LOL~