Me: Hello?
Caller: Blah blah blah blah wonderful opportunity vacation rental Oklahoma panhandle.
Me: I'm not interested, thank you very much. Good bye. [hang up.]
Chilean cowboy in Torres del Paine, a park way at the southern tip of Chile, in 1994, when my friend Lenore came to visit. She brought with her peanut butter, Crisco (I didn't realize I should just use lard, which was readily available), chocolate chips (before I realized I could break up chocolate bars), ziplock bags (no substitute available), and lots of other delicacies not available to those of us on Peace Corps stipends.
Example two
SH: Hello?
Caller: blah blah blah time share
SH: We're really not in the market right now.
Caller: blah blah blah
SH: Even if we were, we wouldn't be interested in Orlando because we don't have kids*. If we were going to do something like this, it would have to be Hawaii. [I roll my eyes. SH has never been in sales.]
Northern Chile.
Me: Hang up!
Caller: blah blah blah Hawaii.
SH: But we just took a vacation, so we're not interested.
Me: Hang up!
Caller: blah blah blah next year
SH: I'm not going to hang up on you, but as I said, we're just not interested.
Caller: blah blah blah
SH: Uh huh, but this is not something we want to do right now. Maybe later.
Me: Just hang up!
Little restaurant in Chile with the menu on the blackboard out front.
Caller: blah blah blah
SH: We're not interested in doing anything like this right now. Good night.
* and we -- well, I -- certainly have no interest in going anywhere near my outlaws
Fishing village in Chile.
2 comments:
I fully lie. (I'm not proud of this, but that's not important right now.)
Whatever they are selling I always tell them I JUST BOUGHT SOME.
Timeshare in Croatia, Carpet cleaning for the doghouse...
Me: Wow! What a coincidence! We just got solar paneling yesterday!
*click*
I don't think that counts as a real lie. Saying what you need to say to a telemarketer is to lying as killing in self-defense is to murder.
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