Kitchen Garden Forum

Shallot Man wrote:Had a phone call from a foreign sounding gentleman at 0735 Fri morning telling me he had detected a fault with my computer. [switched off at the time] Seem rather perplexed when I gave him my standard reply. I do not have a computer. Then the line went dead.

I have been told by similar foreign sounding gentlemen that I have a problem with Windows. My stock reply is that they could all do with cleaning. Somehow this seems to deter them.

My stock answer is to just say hello, and when I find out who it is i say

"Welcome to Radcliffe Bespoke Software hardware and software support line, If I can just ask for your name, Contract number, and Hardware issue number, we can get on and sort the problem, or issue an engineer out to fix it for you"

Usually I dont get past "software support line"

I can't say what I say..... But it's the few times I'm not lady like...... They've never called back........

Pawty wrote:I can't say what I say..... But it's the few times I'm not lady like...... They've never called back........

Pawty, not lady like? I cant imagine that, you always seem so kind and gentle

Only friends have been given our personal landline number and it is ex directory and registered with TPS

ALL other contacts, such as utilities, companies, medical, dental et cetera et cetera were given our business line number when we had our own business before I retired.
Nowadays they are only given my mobile number.

We do get the occasional chance random dial call on our home line but they are very rare.

Now we have no business line these people seem very reluctant to put mobile numbers on cold call lists

Maybe its the "hello, hello, sorry cant hear you very well, you're breaking u.........oh dear the lines gone dead" response they get.

As for cold callers at the door, as I have posted before, few are brave enough to ring the bell once they have seen the sign on the door

What is on your door....?

I wanted to put 'missionaries will be eaten' on the front gate but my sons wouldn't let me...

"intruders will be composted" and on the garden gate, "Free weeds, pick your own"

I think i will put, "Village idiot lurking in the bushes"......and i wouldn't be lying.....

This 30kg lump stood on the inside window sill barking tends to have a slight effect on people walking down our drive.

I have posted this before, the sign I put on our front door

Short-haired pointer?

One of my big boy springer spaniels once did an amazing balancing act on top of the garden gate, all four feet on a 2" wide top bar with a picket fence top. So all 4 feet in a different gap, swaying backwards and forwards at an unknown prospective visitor... I had to do a very quick collar grab and bring him down backwards. We made a taller gate after that.

Favorite stumped phone cold caller was the lady who yabbered on about solar panels until I asked her what bit of the thatch she suggested we could put them on... and she couldn't see the problem...

Motherwoman wrote:Short-haired pointer?

Yes a GSP.

Talking about waste and composting, I couldn't resist a wry smile about a notice on Recycling sent out yesterday by our Council which included a list of items which could not be put in our Recycling Bins.

It included "Dead animals over 6kg

Do they really think people are going to weigh these creatures on their kitchen scales before deciding whether to put them in the bin or not?

So they'll take a cat or a very small dog? Is that the total weight they take or per individual animal?

One for Motherwoman

Never mind dogs - they're taking serious steps on the island



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