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[elucreh]

Have been working as a telepolltaker for three days. Have so far talked to:

1) More than ten people who didn't want to talk on the phone while there was lightning (???)

2) A little kid who I somehow found myself spending five minutes explaining what an "election" was to (cute)

3) The National Weather Service (!?)

4) A ten-minute rant on everything the Rupublicans have done wrong in the last ten years (and we're supposed to be neutral, otherwise I'd have just been saying, "I agree with you! I agree with you!")

5) A lingerie hotline, which I hung up on just before they started reciting from an advice article (!!)

6) A man over fifty who wanted my home number *h2k*

Comments

[florahart]

I *do* find it entertaining that they *answered* the phone while there was lightning. My great grandparents always unplugged their phone during an electrical storm. And ran water in pans in case they needed it, and turned off other devices (TV, fans, lights...). We would sit in the dark and chat. Heh.

[elucreh.livejournal.com]

LOL, exactly. I was like...so why did you pick it up if you didn't want to talk?

[fernwithy.livejournal.com]

1) More than ten people who didn't want to talk on the phone while there was lightning (???)

I've heard this before. A friend of mine used to swear up and down that people got electrocuted that way all the time. It isn't a total fabrication -- Snopes gets into it here (http://www.snopes.com/horrors/techno/phone.asp) -- but it's not an especially huge danger.

[tonksnymphadora.livejournal.com]

Yeah, an old family friend was on the phone when there was lightning and it was a landline, versus a portable, and he got zapped a bit. He said from then on, he always stayed off the phone.

[thatdork.livejournal.com]

rofl