The phone rings and much faffery follows with the pc in order to silence the *version-3-point-1 podcast I was listening to.
"Hello, I can I speak to Mr or Mrs ******?"
"Speaking", says I, just to avoid drawing out the pain of explaining things, and to save any later callbacks.
"waffle waffle waffle TalkTalk waffle waffle waffle blah blah blah waffle blah blah"
"We're on Telewest"
"Telewest cable?"
"Yes."
"Oh sorry to have troubled you, sir, but we can't offer you free calls, blah, blah, blah."
Sir! SIR. I knew I had a deep voice, but really! Still, that's been the least of my woes of late. I'll go write about them now.