|
TightEnd
|
 |
« on: May 10, 2006, 12:04:04 PM » |
|
It was just going to be a routine call.
My Windscreen had cracked on the motorway and it needed replacing so I headed for my nearest Autoglass and had the work done.
Afterwards I needed to call my insurance company to get a claim processed.
Of course no one minds if there is a short wait while a claims person becomes free...Option 1 then Option 2 on the automated menu and then a short wait
But come on, do not play me Cliff Richard's "Wired for Sound" while I am waiting!!
This company has thousands and thousnds of tunes to choose from as its "waiting music" and here I am stuck in a loop listening to Cliff for the sixth time.
Is there anything worse to be stuck listening to? Does it seriously think that its customers of all ages and backgrounds want to listen to Cliff? OK, perhaps they'd draw the line at The White Stripes or Primal Scream but this really is taking the celibate tennis loving crinkly necked biscuit.
I suppose if there's one thing guaranteed to make me put the phone down and not process the claim its Wired for sound for the sixth time. Or maybe "Mistletoe and Wine". Maybe thats the whole point.
The cynic in me imagines the conversation
Smithers "I have the new quarterly figures sir"
Burns "Oh good Smithers...Excellent excellent, claims are down 37%"
Smithers "and its directly due to Cliff. On days we use Cliff as our waiting music claims are down 63%"
Burns "Inspired Smithers, Inspired"
Smithers "Its worked so well we are going for the Frog Chorus next quarter"
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
My eyes are open wide
By the way,I made it through the day
I watch the world outside
By the way, I'm leaving out today
|
|
|
|
londonpokergirl
|
|
« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2006, 12:05:35 PM » |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Cardroom Supervisor at Gala Casino Leeds
Ex- Editor of PokerNews UK/Ireland Magazine
|
|
|
|
steeley68
|
|
« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2006, 12:08:48 PM » |
|
It really does make you wonder. If one of our underwriters puts you on hold, we need to listen to the Top Gear theme tune - I'm guessing the car link, but even still...
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
I love....LAMP!
|
|
|
|
ifm
|
|
« Reply #3 on: May 10, 2006, 12:22:57 PM » |
|
Amazing grace played on pan pipes does my head in, you fall asleep rather than hang up.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Sometimes you have to suffer a little bit in your youth to motivate yourself to succeed in later life. Do you think if Bill Gates got laid in high school, do you think there'd be a Microsoft? Of course not.  |
|
|
|
AndrewT
|
|
« Reply #4 on: May 10, 2006, 01:12:51 PM » |
|
Do not diss the Frog Chorus - it's the only decent thing McCartney has done in 26 years.
Bom bom bom - ai ee ai.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
ACE2M
|
|
« Reply #5 on: May 10, 2006, 01:15:41 PM » |
|
BT used to have primal scream 'movin on up' which was slightly amusing.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
Claw75
|
|
« Reply #6 on: May 10, 2006, 01:37:17 PM » |
|
embarrasing admission - I actually quite like that song!
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
"Arguing with idiots is like playing chess with a pigeon....no matter how good you are the bird is going to shit on the board and strut around like it won anyway"
|
|
|
|
Poppet7
|
|
« Reply #7 on: May 10, 2006, 01:40:58 PM » |
|
Imagine if they used their radio advert thingy then "Autoglass repair, Autoglass replace!" It's on the radio all the time and does my head in!
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
AndrewT
|
|
« Reply #8 on: May 10, 2006, 01:41:50 PM » |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
steeley68
|
|
« Reply #9 on: May 10, 2006, 01:48:07 PM » |
|
embarrasing admission - I actually quite like that song!
Don't be embarrased by Primal Scream - Bobby Gillespie is a hero! |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
I love....LAMP!
|
|
|
|
Claw75
|
|
« Reply #10 on: May 10, 2006, 01:50:49 PM » |
|
embarrasing admission - I actually quite like that song!
Don't be embarrased by Primal Scream - Bobby Gillespie is a hero! as it happens I do like Primal Scream, but I was actually talking about wired for sound  |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
"Arguing with idiots is like playing chess with a pigeon....no matter how good you are the bird is going to shit on the board and strut around like it won anyway"
|
|
|
|
Gryff
|
|
« Reply #11 on: May 10, 2006, 02:45:19 PM » |
|
Surely they could use the crazy frog?
100% no claims.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
KeithyB
|
|
« Reply #12 on: May 10, 2006, 05:10:58 PM » |
|
"Wired for sound" is actually a great song I think! Terrifically poptastic tune in an early eighties type way, mate!!  I think the song unfairly gets a lot of stick because the original video for it was so cringingly awful. If you've never seen it........well....you need to think Cliff and some lycra-clad girlies, all on roller skates, gyrating their way round Milton Keynes shopping centre!!  Keithy wanders off with his hands in the air........." I like tall speakers........I like small speakers " |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
KeithyB
|
|
« Reply #13 on: May 10, 2006, 05:15:15 PM » |
|
If you've never seen it........well....you need to think Cliff and some lycra-clad girlies, all on roller skates, gyrating their way round Milton Keynes shopping centre!! Actually rereading this I don't know where they went wrong with the video.....it really had all the potential ingredients of a classic!! |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
Ironside
|
|
« Reply #14 on: May 10, 2006, 05:21:33 PM » |
|
whats wrong with cliff?
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
I am the master of my fate
I am the captain of my soul.
|
|
|
|
Author