Financial17 Sep 2006 12:39 pm
I haven’t done that in a while.
Every so often I get a kick out of getting car insurance quotes. You know that junk mail you always get promising that you’ll save hundreds of dollars switching to Guy Ko or your bank’s auto insurance scam? It’s actually kind of fun to call them up and go through the rigamarole of getting a quote.
Because at the end they say, “It’s only going to be $4,278 for six months on both cars! Do you want to go ahead and switch to our scam?!!!!!”
And I get to brightly say, “Nope! That’s WAY more than I’m paying now! Ha ha ha ha!!!”
For some reason, it’s really satisfying.
2 Responses
September 17th, 2006 at 8:29 pm
ITF, two posts ago you were dead.
One post ago you were humble.
Now what are you?
“Satisfied,” I suppose you will cackle.
Oh well.
September 20th, 2006 at 2:18 am
I think you’re bored. Seriously, morbidly bored. Another thing that is fun to do, if you can handle it, is to let a telemarketer get thru their whole apeech, then tell them you need to think about it and would they give you THEIR home phone number for you to call them back later in the evening? Then you can tell them that’s how you feel about it when they don’t accept phone calls at home. (Learned that one from an old Seinfeld.)