35yrs since mumzie paid my phone bill
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wendy house: Hello!
BT operative (BT-OH!): Hello, is Mr or Mrs House available
wendy house: my parents don’t live here
BT-OH!: Do you pay the bills?
wendy: Are you selling me something?
BT-OH: this phone number is a BT phone number and we have a special offer on Broadband
Phone sales people often want to talk to my mother, dad or to-be-arranged-husband. It will be sad when my reply is ‘my parents are dead’ until then it’s mildly comical.
January 20th, 2010
BT are still convinced that I still live at my parents’ house in London. Apparently it’s less logical that their call centre people would have forgotten to update my address than that I’m randomly paying for a land line in a town where I don’t live.
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February 5th, 2010
what happens, and I can speak from experience, is they go “oh well” and try to continue selling you whatever they’re selling you. At which point I just cut in and tell them not to phone back. Astoundingly enough, they act like they’re the ones being insulted; I had someone phone back twice to shout about my “lack of manners”
and yup, i’m on the TPS, which seems to be less useful than it used to be
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