Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for June 28, 2010

Wow, wotta mind!

Are all the beer cans empty? Inspiration?

It looks like he may be using a slide rule………I love that!

That’s how Galileo did it.

Those better not be Scooter’s dog food cans that Kevin is using for experiments!

Claude, I really do not need a closeup of the bottom of your shoes. Spent too much time in the Middle East for that. Thanks Cleo for partially blocking them in the second panel.

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Oh, you may have some nice chats – in my case, it was customer service from amazon.com – the thing is: I live in Germany…

He called me in the afternoon. His afternoon. From the Hawaiian Islands. My middle of the night… Nice and fruitful conversation anyway.

Claude is really sharp here; I’ll ask the next telemarketers where they live. Unfortunately, we only get fax calls (we don’t have one anymore) in the late evenings/early mornings…

Not that it’ll do him any good.

Tell him a bad pun, and he’ll put you on a do not call list.

Howdy doody doo, Cleo peeps….

Back again…. this time to comment on

the June 28th  2020 “CLEO and COMPANY”

(Pssst… it’s on Sherpa….. Pass it on.)

Git’em Claude.

I also sometimes engage telemarketers in conversation…

I like to waste their time, the way they waste mine… interrupt their jobs, slow their sales… whatever I can do to trip them up.

Asking minute details, if they’re selling something…

So… instead of steam cleaning two 9×12 rugs… what about one 10×9 rug, and two 12 x5 hall runners?

What if I’d like 3 5×7 prints and only 12 wallet size?

The “Microsoft” guys are fun…. they “need” to fix my computer…

I ask them where they’re calling from… what they’re having for dinner… whether their mothers know they’re ripping people off.

I’ve had it happen the other way, too… I’ll never forget the “Bobs.”

I bought a defective HP printer in 2007.

Called customer support… “Bob”, with a heavy Indian accent, had me unplug it, plug it back in, turn it off, then on… this that and the other. No go.

The next day, “Bob” No. 2 called. Had me try the same things… then gave me a special number to call….

That “Bob” (#3) couldn’t resolve it, and passed me to “Janet.”

More phone calls… 1 or 2 more Bobs, and another Janet.

And ONE “Mr. Patel”, who almost solved it… but no.

Finally “Bob” #5 called to ask me to ship it back to HP.

And then:

Did I live alone? Did I work?

Could he come marry me?!?

I told him he’d lose his job if his boss heard him.

He said it was OK… he’d quit when we got married.

He would always love me like no other man could love me.

He was 26. I said I was 60. “Age does not matter in India.”

I didn’t turn him in… I felt sorry for him.

I didn’t ship the printer… I just exchanged it at Costco.

Claude needs to find a 5 year old to hack into the telemarketers websites and get the the names of the bosses of those web sites. Then, when they call, Claude can give the credit card number of the telemarketer’s boss.

Well, my solution is easy…………..caller ID. If a ‘name’ doesn’t appear on the phone, I don’t answer the call. They rarely leave a message. And then, I get Cleo to come over with her bazooka………..

My best time is 12 minutes – ish.

This has been around a while since it’s spam emails, but it still applies:

https://www.ted.com/talks/james_veitch_this_is_what_happens_when_you_reply_to_spam_email?language=en

It’s about 9 minutes long but it takes me about 35 because I have to catch my breath.

Good morning Ballardeers! day 40,000,000,000,107 of bat carp crazy.

Having interwebs problems. It’s up it’s down. It’s up it’s down. Kinda like a honeymoon.

Gotta love one another…. (((((HUGS)))))

Good Sunday morning Balladeers, (((((Plods))))) and Miss Susan!

Kevin’s a regular Isaac Newton.

Cleo is spot on.

Someone is going to get canned.