General Chat

Robert!! :-D :-D :-D

If it is a foreign person, I say "Sorry, I am not English and cannot understand what you are saying" and they ring off!!

We prefer to leave the answer phone on. 'The other person clears' very quickly.

Last week I lost the plot when I answered phone - my carer was here and I said b----r off. She was horrified until she heard who was ringing. Phone rang about 2 hrs later, heard my voice and put phone down.. No similar calls have been heard since.

I highly recommend my 'turn of phrase'.

Last time I said I had apple....bananas, pears. He didn't seem interested in discussing if tomatoes were fruit or veg ;-)

There used to be some restriction re the time cold callers could phone. Was it 9am to 9pm and not on a Sunday? Perhaps he thought we'd already put our clocks forward.

Romany, thanks for that :-D

Joy, that's what I normally say. :-D

I have been known, when asked to 'Look at Windows', to comment 'Yes, they could do with a clean, thank you', and put the phone down.

When the ring me I say we don't internet :-D

Maggie see if you can block the number or report them to BT. I leave my house phone on silent , I only have it for the internet as nobody calls on it except my mother lol. :-(

Must've been the same man, Rose. 'Mr Manners' :-P :-P

I wonder if he saves his 'charms' for women, or whether he's a delightful to men?

I had him too :-D Couldn't hear him properly and said so, he told me to "stop interrupting and let me finish" ...I didn't :-)

8:15 Cynthia???? That's inhumane! :-(

I had one at 8.15am this morning. Thinking it was going to be a family crisis at that time, I nerved myself before answering. When this voice said that it was about 'my computer', I snapped "At this time in the morning? You must be joking!" and cut them off in their prime... :-D

I was tackling a delicate situation - cutting meat off a shoulder joint, with an (apparently) ravenous cat lurking, when my phone rang.

Torn between leaving the meat to answer it, or just assume it was a cold caller, I ran to fetch the phone, taking it into the kitchen so I could 'guard' the meat.
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me: Hello?
them: Garble, something about windows
me: silence while I try to work out what he'd said
them: Hello are you still there?
me: Sorry, who did you say you were calling from?
them: Stop saying what? what? what?
me: I'm afraid no-one speaks to me like that.

I put the phone down.

Just 'googled' the number, he was going to tell me about how my computer wasn't working properly!! :-P
How come these spammers now believe they can be as rude as they like?
The pratt had already disturbed me without insulting me as well!!