Smiffy
Grand Slam Winner
Phone went off about 10 minutes ago. We have caller display, it showed "International" so I knew it was going to be somebody either carrying out a survey or flogging something.
Turned out to be a foreign sounding gentleman from Microsoft who informed me that he was going to help me sort out a problem with Windows.
"Fantastic" I said, "my computer has been making a funny noise recently, maybe that's what it is. Could you hold on a minute"
"Certainly" came the reply.
30 seconds later, I said "could you hold the phone very close to your ear and listen to this noise? I hope you can help me sort it out".
"Absolutely" he said. So he did.
"Are you ready?" I said.
"Yes" he replied.
I knew that referees whistle was going to come in handy. It deafened me, so God knows what it did to him.

Turned out to be a foreign sounding gentleman from Microsoft who informed me that he was going to help me sort out a problem with Windows.
"Fantastic" I said, "my computer has been making a funny noise recently, maybe that's what it is. Could you hold on a minute"
"Certainly" came the reply.
30 seconds later, I said "could you hold the phone very close to your ear and listen to this noise? I hope you can help me sort it out".
"Absolutely" he said. So he did.
"Are you ready?" I said.
"Yes" he replied.
I knew that referees whistle was going to come in handy. It deafened me, so God knows what it did to him.