Not much going on lately. I’ve been riding my bike everyday, which is cool. The Stones are up now 2-0 on Cleveland, which is good times. The next game isn’t until Saturday though, which totally sucks. We have to wait 4 days because of stupid TV schedules. Such bullshit.

So, the other day I’m sitting at home minding my own business when the phone rings. I look at the caller ID, and it says it’s Talk America. We recently cancelled with them and switched to Vonage, so I was curious as to why they were calling. I answered the phone and this is how the conversation went:

Talk America lady: Hi sir, I’m blah blah from Talk America. We are calling people in your neighborhood to see if we can save them some money on their phone bill.
Me: That’s odd. We just cancelled with you guys a few weeks ago.
Talk America lady: You did? May I ask why?
Me: Sure. You know how you guys advertise $14.99 a month for you phone bill, then you get a bill in the mail and it’s 60 bucks?
Talk America lady: Yea.
Me: That’s why we cancelled with you. We went with Vonage. With Vonage they advertise 14.99 a month, and you get a bill that’s 15 bucks. What a concept huh.
Talk America lady: You know, I’ve heard a lot about Vonage, what is it?
Me: It’s VOIP. Your phone runs through your high speed internet access. You don’t have to pay the $10/mo for using a local routing hub, and $12/mo for using SBC’s phone lines, and all that other crap that you get hit with per month. So your bill is literally whats advertised, plus tax. That’s it.
Talk America lady: No kidding. I wonder if it’s available here in Florida.
Me: It’s available anywhere high-speed interent is available.
Talk America lady: What about long distance?
Me: You get nation wide calling including Canada and the Virgin Islands. Included. Plus caller ID, voice mail, call waiting, all the regular stuff. You can even check you voicemails online from any computer with internet access, or have them emailed to you. If you wanted to, when you travel you could carry your router with you, plug it in to a network jack, and you could make a regular local call like you were calling from your house.
Talk America lady: Sounds like a great deal. I’m going to look into it.
Me: You should, it is great. …hey, you realize you called me to sell me phone service, and I ended up selling it to you?
Talk America lady: Ha, yea, that’s pretty funny.
Me: Okay, well if there isn’t anything more I can do for you, have a good day, and thank you for choosing Vonage.
Talk America lady: ha ha, have a good day.

Maybe I should be in sales.