Wednesday, December 17, 2008

a little white lie

"Can I ask you a few questions for a quick survey?"
"Uh..."
"It'll only take about ten minutes."
"OK."
...
44 minutes and 57 seconds later we're done.

(timed by my lovely new phone that I got replaced for free because it got dropped too many times and no longer worked and the warranty was extended so they replaced it for free and I didn't like their choice of replacement so now I picked out my favorite and now have a lovely new phone with a built in answering machine which you should call and leave a message in 'cause it's so much better than voice mail and plus it saves me 8.95 per month) I hang up.

Good thing I multitask. I should have hung up at the ten minute interval. Maybe next time when I'm feeling less generous.

I did, however, get a lot of satisfaction out of the phone call...since 25 minutes into it the surveyor was getting frustrated because her co-workers were all going home but she had to finish up with me first.

It wasn't mine fault though.

*chuckle chuckle*

1 comment:

Mom D said...

That sounds like an evil chuckle... I am sure you were conniving in your mind what answer would lead to the most follow up questions ... And did you get her to read each question twice and then ask for clarification? It would be just like you to do that ;>