It was a call from my baby sister's health plan thingummy. "Is this the child's parent or guardian?" I was silent... "I'm sorry," the computer said, "I'm just a computer. Did you say "yes?"
"No," I said firmly.
"Is there anyone available to take this call?"
"No," I said again, wishing there were.
"Would you be willing to take a message?"
Long silence. I didn't really want to, and this was a computer talking, so I could have said no if I wanted to. "Y-ees," I said rather uncertainly. And took the message.
But it was very weird.
Speaking of phone calls, we've been getting a lot of wrong number calls lately...
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No! Artificial intelligence!
:rofl That made me laugh! Talking to a computer. Wow and soil.
Wrong number calls are annoying. Once, before I was born, my parents kept getting calls from some person asking for someone with the same name as my mom--at like 2 in the morning.
Wow. I don't think I've ever talked to a computer like that. Well, maybe once, I guess ;)
Ew. I hate talking to machines. Had to call my airline's phone line a lot today and felt rather uncomfortable wandering around yelling "Flight ONE - NINE - SEVEN" and "ARRIVAL" into my phone. Plus it kept picking up background noise and saying in a confused apologetic voice, "I'm sorry, I still don't understand..."
I almost feel sorry for the computers when they apologize. "I'm JUST a computer." How saaaad! :(
*snickers* Hmm...What an interesting experience. I wish the libraries' "You-have-three-items-overdue-pay-up-or-DIE!" computer-phones with their constant harassment and voices of tin would apologise once in a while.
(But it IS the library, so I guess I can forgive them.)
lol, Delaney! That is so funny! Alyosha... quite funny as well!
Speaking of computers... once we got a call, and I could tell it was a telemarketer of some sort... human or computer I couldn't tell. So I summoned up the courage and said "Are you a computer?" The lady on the other end paused as replied "No I am not." I was so embarrassed and immediately hung up. But now.... I wonder. Was it really a real person?
Oh, Auntie! That must have been so embarassing!
Sis, the robots are out to get us! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!! lol.
I hate pre-recorded messages... and telemarketers not taking "No" for an answer. You're not alone in the wrong number thing either; our house number has been getting that quite a bit lately.
Our number is very similar to some water company's number, so often we get calls saying, "Is this the water company?" I guess I just don't sound professional enough to work for a water company...
The other day a guy called, and it was... weird:
Me: Hello? (Yeah, not very polite, but it's too much of a mouthful to answer the phone with proper etiquette)
Man: (quietly) Um...hi....
Me: (I didn't know what to say so I decided to pretend I hadn't heard. Kind of stupid, yeah.) Hello?
Man: ....hi....
Me: Who is this? (I said this very politely)
Man: Um... I'm calling to get my number.
Me: (Totally confuzzled) Who are you calling for?
Man: Is this the lady from the newspaper?
Me: No, I'm sorry: I think you have the wrong number.
Man: Right...sorry.
Whoa, weird.
Yeah, our house number is ONE DIGIT off from a local school's so we're constantly getting "Is this *blank*?" And I say no... and then they call again and say the same thing. Dur. lol.
btw, I want to send you what I'm been working on lately, to get some feedback. Can I?
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