There are cynics among you who think that politicians are inveterate liars. I find that by and large this is not really the case. In fact, one of my biggest problems with many politicians is that when they make campaign promises, they keep them — when they really, really shouldn’t.
This is not to say that all politicians are compulsive truth-tellers. I suppose the field has more than its share of liars, particularly when the penalty for telling voters what they don’t want to hear is so steep.
But even the worst politicians are mere pikers, babes in the woods, pure novices at lying, compared to the fiends who record this message for us to hear, over and over and over again, when we try to do business over the phone:
All agents are busy assisting other customers and your call is important to us. Please remain on the line and the next available agent will assist you.
“Your call is important to us.” Yeah, uh-huh. Right.
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In Spanish!!
Better yet, when a marketer CALLS YOU and says, “Please hold for the first available agent.”
Dave Frishberg sung it best.
http://sniff.numachi.com/pages/tiBLIZLIES.html
If your call were really important to me, you’d have a fluent speaking human to answer my call.
I screwed up the pronouns up there. Brad–you HAVE to get an editing by commenter feature!
You get the drift.
@Greg, I’ll hang up on those.
If the call is that important, at least have a human being on the line.