Society & Culture

What gets your goat?

Society & Culture

Posted by: Rainbow

17th Feb 2012 01:02pm

Is it bad manners? Noisy (or nosey) neighbours? Crude dress? Expensive groceries? Rainy days? I know this isn't an overly positive toipc, but as is life, we're only human and sometimes things just tick us off...


chookybo
  • 18th Feb 2012 12:23pm

What gets my goat? Rude people who phone. Someone with an Indian sounding voice phoned asking to speak to my husband. As I know my husband is not fond of telemarketers, I politely asked who she was and what she wanted. She told me she was Stephanie and then babbled off some ?telecommunion name (or that's what it sounded like). I politely asked her would she mind saying that again. She asked me if I could not understand her and I said "yes" so she told me I was a stupid bitch and hang up. I can understand that telemarketers must get frustrated sometimes as people are often rude to them but there is no call for them to be rude to ?potential customers, especially when I spoke politely and patiently.


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