Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp (Post 602414)

I've had that one - several times. They try to tell me that my husband originally took out an insurance cover plan and now we need to renew it. They must have some access to records of the Sky subscription because they called me Mrs. Whisp*. (It is now Whisp-Busman but the Sky subscription is still in my late husband's name.) I got tired of telling them we had no such insurance and even if we did have I don't want to renew it. The last one was good though because they asked if they could speak to my husband - now I could have just put them on to Busman but I felt wicked and asked them if they meant Mr Whisp whose name the Sky subscription was in. They replied "yes" so I told them I woukd check if they had a phone line installed at the cemetary. They asked me if that was where he worked and I replied "No, that's where he's buried!" (He was actually cremated but they don't know that.) - They hung up - I wonder why?

*well not actually Mrs. Whisp - they used the name I had when married to my late husband.

Originally Posted by Studio25 (Post 602403)

25 years ago (back when digital watches were still a pretty neat idea) the Jehovah's Witnesses called at stupid-o-clock on a Saturday morning. I'd never seen them before, & didn't know this was how they worked, so instead of hiding I answered the door. When they started talking I didn't immediately recognise the sales patter, so I made the mistake of engaging them in conversation.

They were itching to get away before long. If you've seen that episode of Father Ted where Dougal manages to convert a bishop to Atheism, you'll know what I mean.

One of them said "I see you're wearing a digital watch- don't you think that's a testament to the glory of God, that he gives mankind the creativity an intellect to dream up things like that. It's not as if you could put all the bits in a jar, shake it up and out comes a digital watch."
"Yes you could."
"Wha...?"
"There's a statistical probability that you could shake up all the bits and it would make a watch. Sure, it's low, but it's possible."

I can't remember what excuses they made to leave, but that was the one that did it.