Phone lines

[Meade's Ball]

I'm ringing Orange at the minute, and the bloke on the other end keeps making me chuckle with the obvious phoniness of his friendliness and refusal to listen. He asked how my day has been and i responded with the truth: i've developed something of a small cold that's eating at my energy bars. "That's great Mr Meade's_Ball." He keeps starting his sentences with little comments like "Hey, Mr Meade's_Ball, i've had an idea..." when i know that he hasn't. "Mr Meade's_Ball, Orange want to charge you £15 for a stand-in replacement phone, but i say NO WAY ORANGE, THIS MAN IS A LOYAL CUSTOMER."
He couldn't understand that the list of addresses he had for my postcode didn't include mine precisely, so read through all of them for about 3 minutes. At the end he gave me "It's been an absolute pleasure getting to know you Mr Meade's_Ball."
I love this dude and everything he's not yet perfect at pretending to be.

I answer the phones a lot during the day at work, but generally go with the smug-know-it-all angle. I think i can be that dickhead in the regulatory body environment.

Um, there we are.

 

[Fungus]

So, tomorrow, be inspired by Mr Orange, and be the very best dickhead you can be.

 

[Dominoid]

I'm ringing Orange at the minute, and the bloke on the other end keeps making me chuckle with the obvious phoniness of his friendliness and refusal to listen. He asked how my day has been and i responded with the truth: i've developed something of a small cold that's eating at my energy bars. "That's great Mr Meade's_Ball."

Hahah, I hate it when people answer that honestly. I really didn't ask how you are because I give a shit, I did that because I'm British and it's just what we do. You're supposed to say "fine thanks, how are you?" and pretend you give a shit when I also claim to be fine regardless of how I actually am!