Ohhh.... I totally HATE those voice recognition systems. I usually just refuse to play along with them because they NEVER recognize what I say. Allan, you had me cracking up and literally laughing out loud in a quiet military library with people giving me all kinds of looks, so I owe you for that one!
I too dutifully mailed in the census for our household and when I returned the phone call to explain to the woman that it had already been sent in by mail, she started stalking us and coming by our house, leaving us little notes. One day she walked up on us while we were doing yard work and trapped me into re-completing the census. Somehow I interpreted this to mean that she did not believe I had really sent in the census and was calling me a liar, so I got really irritated with this stalker lady. She kept making me repeat the answers because she couldn't hear me over the power tools Mike was using, so I just grabbed the form away from her and started checking off the responses as quick as I could. I thought she was going to have a heart attack, because they are not allowed to let us complete the form she says, only she is supposed to be writing on the form. I was so mad.
Finally, my absolute favorite on this subject: how many times have you listened to the options and entered the appropriate number on the prompts and been subjected to the hold music and five minutes later you FINALLY get to the warm body who answers the line, only to immediately announce they have to transfer you to another department and then hang up on you. I turn into a cartoon character with steam coming out of my ears and @#*! face turns red and heat lines radiating away from my head while little *@#! words start to appear. I cannot tell you how many times AT&T has done this to me - it's not even funny.
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That was hilarious!
