August 20th, 2018, 3:30 pm
Recent(ish) development are the cold calls with recorded speech that start off with something disarming/confusing/realistic, such as, "At last, you are difficult to catch..." so you aren't sure whether it's a recording or a live person. Just had one from a charity. I won't name the charity, but it's not one you want to just hang up on. However, I did just hang up. Immediately afterwards I realized that the correct response was to play the game back at them. You say "Glad you called, was thinking about you...[long pause]...sorry just joking, no one at home, please leave a message...Memory full, please call again."