I don't think he meant for me to be amused...

I was out walking today, and at about 8:45 pm, my phone rang. I looked at it, and saw hidden caller ID flashing across my screen. But surprise! It was not my little buddy, it was a telemarketer! Never mind the fact that it's illegal for them to use hidden caller ID in Norway.

Anyway, he started the conversation by saying that he was not trying to sell me anything. In fact, I would not have to pay a dime! He had all this stuff to give away, and he wanted me to have this book, and that book, and that book, and he would even throw in a water pitcher from Rosendahl! Doesn't that sound just so swell?

And then he got to the catch, which was, of course, that there was a small sum of money to be paid, but in exchange for all this stuff, how could I not be interested. Except, of course, I was not at all interested in shelling out money for three books that I was not remotely interested in reading and a water pitcher from Rosendahl. I said so.

It was apparently the wrong thing to say. Imagine that! He was so incredibly pissed off, and he asked me how I dared waste five minutes of his precious time like that! I thought that was a bit rich coming from a telemarketer calling me at nine pm, so I said that he was wasting mine, so why not?

Then he called me a jerk and hung up.