Actually funny
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Topic: Actually funny
Posted By: bice
Subject: Actually funny
Date Posted: 24/October/2005 at 1:59am
Quick background: My husband and I both have student loans in
collections, no income at all until recently. We're now on welfare pending
the outcome of my husband's disability application (he has a mental
disability which he has been avoiding treatment for for years, and I've
finally managed to persuade him to seek help, as it's getting worse not
better and he simply can't hold a job).
So, this morning bright and early, the phone rang and I answered it. It
was a collection agent who wanted to talk to my husband. So I said
(paraphrased) "I'm sorry, he is insane right now and can't come to the
phone." Told him that I knew what the call was about, and that although I
knew he couldn't give me any information, there was no reason I couldn't
give him some, which is what he needs anyway. So we had a long chat,
during which I explained the current medical situation, and agreed to
send him whatever paperwork we had to add to his files.
He suggested - in all seriousness - that possibly Raven was not actually
able to be helped by medical/psychiatric assistance because he was not in
fact ill but rather under a curse. Apparently this gentleman has known
several people who were under curses "in his area" and so knows what he
is talking about.
I said I certainly hoped that wasn't the case, as I didn't know anyone
qualified to remove unidentified curses, and that I was pretty sure Canada
Pension didn't recognize "cursed" as a category on their forms, so if he
was under a curse we were unlikely to be receiving assistance for much
longer.
Then he suggested that I think about going into business with him selling
knockoff polo shirts on Ebay. He said that he would provide me with the
shirts, and I could embroider little alligators on them, make up fake
labels, and we could then sell them for forty dollars and split the money!
Did I hallucinate this entire conversation? Have I not had enough coffee?
I'm reasonably certain that of a half-hour long conversation only about
three minutes of it was legitimate - whether or not the conversation was
actually legal I'm not sure - well ok, the Ebay part was crazy illegal, but
not in any way that invalidates his claim or anything, I don't think...
although it would be fun to know what his boss might think of it! I have
to assume that our conversation was NOT "being recorded for my
protection and to improve customer service"!
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Posted By: bice
Date Posted: 04/November/2005 at 10:12am
And he called back. About Ebay. From his office.
I said that it should be obvious we already had enough problems with
debt, I was not interested in incurring legal fees for false advertising and
copyright infringement, thank you!
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