In the states you can tell these calls due to the 3 second pause
That I suppose is from the auto-dialer. Takes all the fun out of it when you can't just launch straight into your routine. Although I laughed when my austere other half recounted how by sheer logic she maded a telemarketer whimper after he asked her forf her credit card info for the "free" cruise she had just won.

I could have warned him, and saved him from the withering pains of death with which I am all too familiar.
( BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Tue 24 May 2011, 8:53, Reply)