this takes the cake

[truepenny]

phone rings

TRUEPENNY: Hello?

the pause that speaks so eloquently of telemarketers

GUY: Hello? Is Mirrorthaw there?

TRUEPENNY (who was raised to be polite and moreover spent two summers working as a secretary): No, he's not. May I take a message?

GUY: My name is [X]. I'm calling for [Y], the local-area singles group. Do you happen to know if Mirrorthaw is single?

TRUEPENNY (very politely): No, he isn't. Thanks!

GUY: Oh.

TRUEPENNY hangs up the phone

Comments

[libskrat]

Renaissance Singles, I betcha. Those folks just never give up. I get stuff from them (snailmail rather than phone calls, thankfully) every couple months or so.

All I can figure is that our phonebook entry is "D Salo" (since that applies to both of us, no need to get fancy). Ergo both of us are single. Or something.

[peacockharpy.livejournal.com]

Hee!

My husband keeps receiving mail invitations to the local Baptist singles group, which we find entertaining because we've been married for seven years now, he is emphatically agnostic, and if he were to convert to anything Baptist would be the last thing on the list.