Anyone who lives in Australia will know that at around 3pm on the second Tuesday in November, the country comes to a stop. If Australians aren?t at the pub, the local racetrack or having a long lunch at a restaurant somewhere, they have most likely downed tools and are having a drink whilst watching TV or listening to a radio.
Homer's automatic dialing machine
This year at 3:02pm our phones started ringing one after the other in succession. In my experience, each time this happens it is usually an automatic phone-dialling machine and always reminds me of the episode of the Simpsons in which Homer uses an automated dialler to make his fortune.
It might be important
Curious, I picked a phone up ? it might have been something important ? there was silence, I waited for the click and then a man with an Indian accent introduced himself. He was representing Telstra and wanted to help me save money with my phone calls.
I politely told him (just as I had last month and the month before), that I was still happy with my current telecommunications supplier, then I quickly hung up before he could suck me into his never ending telemarketing script.
I seem to get these calls very regularly and I always the answer is the same way.
Am I the only one who finds this annoying?