Am I being too grumpy?

Gupster said:
I went through a phase of stringing them along as long as I could. Last one I had phoned to say that there was a problem with windows on my laptop and he could sort it out if I was to give him remote access and some money. So I played along for a while assuming the role of a simple techophobe, happy to get all the help I could. When it got to the point of giving him anything useful I said:

"You'd think I'd know how to do this what with being Professor of Computing at Surrey University."

I don't even know if that role exists and even if it does I'm no professor. Needless to say it was him that slammed the phone down. Ahhh, what fun........
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Whenever I get one of those windows call I play the game of how long can I keep them on the phone buy just saying the word 'yes'. It takes them some time to work out if you vary the tone and timings. Last call

spammer: - is this a wind up
me:- yes
spammer: - are you a b******d
me:- yes
spammer: - are you only going to say yes
me:- yes
spammer: - you really are a b******d
me:- yes

CLICK!!
 
Yep. Every other day in the past month, I've been getting this "I am from Talk Talk and am ringing up about your computer and . . . . " and that's how far it goes when I press the disconnect call button. Sometimes I shout down the phone "Look, that's just spam, please do NOT call this number again" but that may be because I am feeling tired or cranky at the time.
 
mickledore said:
There's a good restaurant near here called The Barking Frog. Can you do that?
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Well, I'm full of the dreaded man flu right now, so I reckon I could give it a go.
 
You should never give personally identifiable information to someone you don't know and trust.
If you were interested in taking the call further I would have called them back on the verified number and taken it from there.

simples
 
No you are not being too grumpy, you are being annoyed on your own private phone, in your own private time. When a phone sales call me I simply say, sorry this is a private line for friends and family only. I then hang up, it does get annoying after a while, sometimes I may not answer unknown numbers..
 
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