Silly request from our local courthouse

[invaderhorizongreen]

Reminds me of the day I decided to "mess with" a telemarketer. They called and I replied in an old British lady voice. Oh that is nice dearie, would you like to come over for some tea and company. I heard them gasp and hang up immediately, I guess I sounded very convincing. Thanks to Monty Python for teaching me how to do that.   

[Kiwi]

I played with a realtor once when I was in my teens. Usually they ask for the homeowner, but this one just launched into "Hi I'm [name] from [company] and I just sold a house in your neighbourhood". I played with him for a while before he figured out I wasn't the owner...never heard someone hang up so fast!

[pineapplecupcake]

My dad doesn't have a middle name, but sometimes he gets junk mail where they made up a middle name for him. The weirdest middle name they've put on the mail was Xavier. I like to think some data entry clerk is having fun making up names somewhere,  haha.  Also, we used to have a very talkative Siamese cat. A telemarketer called while the cat was busy chatting away and the telemarketer guy asked in a scared voice "Is that a lion?" We said yes and he hung up in a flash!

[buddyboymama]

Nothing like that, thank goodness. But we moved into this house eight (!) years ago, and were forced to change our phone number. We still get phone calls for the folks who previously had this phone number. Some of them are not even telemarketers, but personal phone calls!

My dad doesn't have a middle name, but sometimes he gets junk mail where they made up a middle name for him. The weirdest middle name they've put on the mail was Xavier. I like to think some data entry clerk is having fun making up names somewhere,  haha.  Also, we used to have a very talkative Siamese cat. A telemarketer called while the cat was busy chatting away and the telemarketer guy asked in a scared voice "Is that a lion?" We said yes and he hung up in a flash!