Daily Archives: February 4, 2004

Right now, I’m being polite.

I love messing with telemarketers. I have a sort of game I play with them to see what sort of reactions I can provoke.

    I get

  • one point if the conversation ends because they hung up on me,
  • two points if I can make them audibly angry,
  • three points if they yell at me,
  • four points if they swear and
  • five points if they start crying.

So far, nobody has gotten a perfect score by doing all of these, but I have had a few six point calls where they do the first three…
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