Newbury

Canal boats, fishermen and a few swans on the Kennet and Avon Canal at Newbury this afternoon.

A good trip back from Gloucester this afternoon enabled me to get to Gazweasels in time to hear a wonderful way of dealing with cold calls. Phone rings, and Mr G picks it up and says "hello". Clearly not liking having to deal with a cold call, he says "hang on a minute, I'll just go and get him". Two minutes later, he picks up the phone to see if the caller is still there, and says "hello". Caller says "Hello, is this Mr G". Mr G says "no, I'm just getting him" before putting the phone down on the coffee table. The caller satayed on for just over 5 minutes before giving up!

Other examples previously used appear to include impersonating a chinese restaurant ("I will ask in the restaurant if Mr G is here, but there are only 5 people in the restaurant at the moment"); speaking gibberish (which Mr G appears to do particularly well); Saying that he will only answer questions if he is allowed to ask questions back - and my personal favourite which was when someone rang and said he had a virus on his PC. Mr G accused the person of having stolen his PC - how else would they know that it had a virus?

Fantastic games!

And the new challenge has been set - how long can you keep a caller hanging on the phone before they ring off? :-)