bluebren_livejournal | AOL Telemarketer Man

Okay, I'm out the door, but I have to post about this call.

This AOL guy calls and does the whole WE HAVE NEW NINE POINT OH, IS GREAT, YOU TRY FOR FREE PLEASE and I was like Nah.

And he says CLEARLY YOU ARE SIMPLY UNAWARE OF HOW GREAT IT IS, HERE, YOU LISTEN (only scripted, and with an accent that made him only occasionally intelligible).

And I was like, No, I've already got an ISP I'm happy with, I'm sorry, but Thank You, but NO I TELL YOU YOU TRY FOR FREE. YOU COMPARE!

And at this point I'm noticing that his intonation is exactly-- exactly the same as the computer voice on the weather channel, which I realize is hard to imagine with the way I've written him talking, but it was uncanny. And he was just not getting the hint, poor earnest dear, so I said Look, thank you, but seriously okay? No.

And his tone changes and he goes: "..... Okay."
Disappointed is the emotion coming across here! Mystified by my abrupt rudeness! As if a social conversation was what was going on here!

So I finished with an "Um. Yeah." and I heard "Okay ˘_˘" and he hung up. The ˘_˘ was totally spoken.

Poor guy's not cut out to be a telemarketer.