https://livinginaurora.ca Living In Aurora Ontario Canada Mon, 13 Jan 2020 19:51:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 https://livinginaurora.ca/humor/my-ducts-cleaning-special-promotion-i-do-not-think-so/ https://livinginaurora.ca/humor/my-ducts-cleaning-special-promotion-i-do-not-think-so/#comments Fri, 13 May 2011 19:48:01 +0000 http://livinginaurora.ca/?p=1423

– ‘Hello’ – I said.
Silence, then some noise, and finally someone is talking.
– ‘Hi Ma’am’ – the voice greeted me.
– ‘Yes’ – I said.
– ‘We besically are in your area and running special promotion on your duct cleaning’ – his exact words.
Thinking. At least he is not reading the telemarketer’s script, but I just hope he is talking about ducts in my house.
– ‘Did you say duct cleaning?’ – I interrupted.
– ‘Yes’ – he replied.
– ‘Well, we just had it done’ – I tried to close the conversation as soon as possible by lying.
– ‘When?’ – he asked.
– ‘We just had it done few weeks ago’ – I stated.
– ‘We will clean your vents, your dryer vent’ – he continued until I interrupted him again.
– ‘We just had it done’ – I interrupted.
– ‘When?’ – he asked.
Thinking. Okay is he paying attention to what I am saying at all.
– ‘Few weeks ago, three weeks ago’ – I lied again.
– ‘Oh that is very very good. Have a good day. Sorry for bothering you.’ – his exact closing words.
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Looks like this time my lie-strategy did not work. Well next time I will just tell them I have no ducts, no windows and no doors.

But wait … someone called again from duct cleaning the next day, and I almost did say that we didn’t have any ducts in our house, but held myself back. What is the point, they will call back again and again.]]> https://livinginaurora.ca/humor/my-ducts-cleaning-special-promotion-i-do-not-think-so/feed/ 4