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Thursday 16th Mar 2006
I don't think anyone's reading this any more . . . which is kind of inevitable, I guess. Anyway . . . today I received another cold call at work. The caller display showed the number up as 'T75 trunk' or similar. 'T75 trunk' is how lots of external numbers appear, so it's not really helping me much here. Anyway, I pick the phone up, say hello and give my name and then there's silence . . . all I can hear is the faint workings of some distance call centre (although truth is, it could have been anywhere, or course). "Hello?" I enquire and then this Indian woman says, "Hello, I am calling from Syngumpta Communications about your mobile phone contract." so I say, "From where?" and she repeats, "From Syngumpta Communications. I believe you have a mobile phone contract," so I just say, "Erm . . . no I don't" to which she responds, "Oh, okay," and then hangs up on me. How rude. These people often end up hanging up on me. I think I say the wrong things. Anyway, I have a maths assignment to do for Open University. It's all to do with groups.

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  • Name: Rosie (Rob's Rosie)
  • IP address: 62.253.208.113
  • Date/time: Friday 17th March 2006 09:42:36
  • Comment: Hearing impaired people can tell if someone is asking them something because they can see lips moving and a questioning body language.. plus eye contact, as you said! strange sort of disability education class, I must say, rather poorly thought out and impractical!
  • Name: jonath
  • IP address: 192.168.0.1
  • Date/time: Friday 17th March 2006 13:03:05
  • Comment: Yes, I thought so too: poorly thought out and impractical. I often think those who suffer not from any kind of visual/hearing/mental disability kind of take what they have for granted, so any kind of role play to challenge that 'taking for grantedness' has got to be a good thing . . . if done properly. Oh . . . did you mean to leave your comment on the previous day's entry or was that deliberate? Challenging conventions and all that.

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