I had a very persistant call from Barclays earlier. This woman talked for about three minutes without a break, telling me about this new service where they give you money if you go to hospital, and how it's free for the first two months. I was waiting for her to ask me whether I was interested so I could say no, but she didn't. Instead she told me she was going to put me through to someone who would take my details, so I had to interrupt her and say "Actually I'm not interested." But she didn't give up.
"You've already been signed up for it," she explained. "I'll just put you through to someone who will take your details."
So she put me through to this bloke, who said:
"I understand that my colleague's just been telling you about our new Superfabhospital Plan, and you said you were interested."
"No, I said I wan't interested, but she didn't give me much choice."
"Right, well you've already been signed up for it, so I'll just take your details, and you can call at any time to cancel it later."
"Right, well I'd like to cancel it now please."
"Well, um, all right then. I'll give you the number you can call at any time if you change your mind and decide to take up our Superfabhospital Plan."
So he told me a phone number, which of course I didn't write down.
"Thank you," I said. "Goodbye."
"Goodbye."

Don't you just love telephone salespeople?

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