How a Tele-marketer Made my Day

A small surprise can make for a big change. This afternoon I was straightening things on my computer, when the phone rang. I did not recognize the number and hesitated to answer, but when I picked up the phone, I was shocked and confused. I could not believe what I was hearing. After confirming that he was talking to Howard Roth, a young man asked me if I would be willing to listen to a presentation about a "walking bathtub."

I told him that I really do not appreciate cold calls from people I do not know, but this time I appreciated his call because it was the funniest thing I have ever heard from a tele-marketer.

I further told him that if he recorded what he was saying he too might laugh at the unintentional humor. Yes, our present bathtub has four legs. But I could not in my wildest dreams imagine that a bathtub's legs would ever carry it from place to place.

At that point, serious as the caller was at the beginning of the call, I could now hear him trying to suppress laughter.

At the end of the conversation I told him I appreciated his call. It changed my otherwise drab day into cheer and laughter. And just to let him know I thought well of him, I told him that I respect anyone who in these difficult times is doing any kind of work to make a living.

--It was only after the call that I realized the man was not pitching a "walking bathtub" but rather a "walk-in bathtub..."