Ha? I won what??
I was sooo exhausted today during the day, so I went to sleep when I was awoken by a sudden call. It was a private number so I thought of not taking the call, but it kept ringing so I picked up. I answered 「もしもし?」 Then no answer, so I was like "Hello?" and then no answer again. I was about to get pissed off for being awoken by this call, when the other person on the line answered in the most cheerfullest voice ever.
It was a call of sales from Telstra. *groan* I despise sales calls. The guy just kept going on and on about how I was picked from a random of not Telstra numbers and had won a deal of $550 p/m of calls for only $79 if I switched to Telstra, and I could keep my Vodafone number. So this guy's like asking me all these questions like how much I spend on my mobile every month and where I live and stuff, and I'm still halfway in dreamland, so I'm not replying properly, so I tell the guy I'm not interested.
Then, he starts getting into personal questions like what am I doing? And why am I still asleep at 1pm? I didn't wanna tell the guy I was from overseas (I'm not really, but you know what I mean) so I told the guy what I did was a 'secret'. By that time, I was fully awake now and realised that we were much far away from sales talks and very much into about you and me talks.
By the time we had chatted for an hour, I found out that he was from India, 24 y.o, just finished his accounting course and was working at Telstra whilst applying for jobs. By this time, all he found out about me was that I was Japanese lol. Anyway, he still didn't wanna get back to work, so we ended up chatting for another half hour (omg how bored must I have been??!) And then (here we go) he asked me whether I had any photos of me on the internet. So, I checked out his hi5 first, and scanned him. He actually looked quite decent. So, only to be fair, I told him my myspace and got him to tell me what he thinks of me. I mean, it's interesting to find out what strangers think of you. Anyway, he said I was everything a girl wants to hear about herself~. So, after I had received some self confidence from a stranger, I said I had to go and it was nice talking to him and hung up.
And the funny thing is, this mobile isn't even mine, and if I hadn't quit work yesterday I couldn't have picked up this call. Wow, what an interesting afternoon indeed.
It was a call of sales from Telstra. *groan* I despise sales calls. The guy just kept going on and on about how I was picked from a random of not Telstra numbers and had won a deal of $550 p/m of calls for only $79 if I switched to Telstra, and I could keep my Vodafone number. So this guy's like asking me all these questions like how much I spend on my mobile every month and where I live and stuff, and I'm still halfway in dreamland, so I'm not replying properly, so I tell the guy I'm not interested.
Then, he starts getting into personal questions like what am I doing? And why am I still asleep at 1pm? I didn't wanna tell the guy I was from overseas (I'm not really, but you know what I mean) so I told the guy what I did was a 'secret'. By that time, I was fully awake now and realised that we were much far away from sales talks and very much into about you and me talks.
By the time we had chatted for an hour, I found out that he was from India, 24 y.o, just finished his accounting course and was working at Telstra whilst applying for jobs. By this time, all he found out about me was that I was Japanese lol. Anyway, he still didn't wanna get back to work, so we ended up chatting for another half hour (omg how bored must I have been??!) And then (here we go) he asked me whether I had any photos of me on the internet. So, I checked out his hi5 first, and scanned him. He actually looked quite decent. So, only to be fair, I told him my myspace and got him to tell me what he thinks of me. I mean, it's interesting to find out what strangers think of you. Anyway, he said I was everything a girl wants to hear about herself~. So, after I had received some self confidence from a stranger, I said I had to go and it was nice talking to him and hung up.
And the funny thing is, this mobile isn't even mine, and if I hadn't quit work yesterday I couldn't have picked up this call. Wow, what an interesting afternoon indeed.


5 Comments:
At 3:15 PM,
Unknown said…
You must have been really bored (^_^;) I hate sales calls. Or any kind of survey, charity donations calls. If I'm in a nice mood I just hang up. If I'm in a bad mood, I tell them I'll be right back, put them on hold, and see how long it takes before they hang up:D
At 3:16 PM,
flutteringbutterfly85 said…
Haha, you are so mean!! But that's funny!!
At 9:24 PM,
Calendar said…
HAHAHA! The people from Telstra must be super friendly or somehting because the SAME thing happened to me about 3 years ago when I was having problems with my ADSL and spoke for half a day with my technician over the phone!!^^
In the end, we got each other's msn contact and today we still talk to each other about things happening around us!!! :D
At 9:38 PM,
flutteringbutterfly85 said…
kawyn,
Serious??! hahahaha that's so bizarre!! how funny!!
I wish it was like that with us, but this guy keeps asking me out for drinks.......(^-^;)
At 4:25 PM,
Paladiamors said…
Interestingly I came across this article on the net:
"Indian students told to get a life"
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/12/indian_students_told_to_talk/
Apparently in some places those students are using the net too much of something and they were told to go out and get a social life. Looks we might be seeing a direct result of that with you! Haha
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