The Boston Diaries

The ongoing saga of a programmer who doesn't live in Boston, nor does he even like Boston, but yet named his weblog/journal “The Boston Diaries.”

Go figure.

Wednesday, January 03, 2018

Notes on an overheard phone conversation with an unexpected observation about a name

Ring.

Ring.

“Hello?”

“Hi. I'm calling on behalf of a national marketing firm to see if you quality for a study group that will pay you $500 for your opinions. What is your name?”

“Sean Conner. That's S-E-A-N. C-O-N-N-E-R.”

“You must get a lot of jokes about The Terminator.”

“Actually, you are the first one! If there are jokes, it's about James Bond, although that's actually rare.”

“Oh!”


Notes on a second overheard phone conversation shortly after a previous overheard phone conversation with an unexpected observation about a name

Ring.

Ring.

“Hello?”

“Hi. I'm calling on behalf of a national marketing firm to see if you quality for a study group that will pay you $500 for your opinions. What is your name?”

“Um … I'm afraid you, that's you in the company sense, not you in the personal sense, but well … it is you in the personal sense, because just called me.”

“I did? Oh! I did! I'm sorry, I forgot to mark your number as being called!”

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