Gifted Typist

I told a couple of little white lies today.

It was in a telephone survey promising me a free cruise* to the Bahamas in exchange for answering  questions using the my keypad.

There wasn’t a real person there. Just an automated recording.

So lying was easy.

In fact, is it a really a lie when when you tell it to an automated recording? (Sorry to get all metaphysical on you here, but is it?)

Here are my answers: See if you can spot which ones are lies.

Age: 16-24

Sex: Male

Income: $350,000, annual

Homeowner: Yes, 10 homes

TV: yes.

How many: 15, one in every room of present house.

No. of rooms in present house: 10.

Travel: Yes

Where: to the corner store

Purpose, work or pleasure?: Neither, for a newspaper and milk

Do I smoke more than one package of cigarettes per day: yes.

*I did not hold the line to provide them with personal details for the free cruise. I’d achieved my goal with the lying and that was satisfaction enough. If they are going to use cheap, opportunistic automatic voice recordings to make demands on my time then they deserve to receive corrupted data. It if it costs them, then we’re even, because they called me during work and my time is money

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