Mother-in-law rapidly losing her marbles.Shortly after diagnosis of the Big A started to get phone calls asking for her bank details,so we just gave her Tesco clubcard and told her to give them the numbers of that.This morning I heard about a local businessman who got the diagnosis and was called immediately afterwards by some con man.He gave him the number and lost £500k,cleaned him out.Got me wondering if somebody in the system is collecting the numbers of do-lallies and selling them on?
"Got me wondering if somebody in the system is collecting the numbers of do-lallies and selling them on?" Will check with ER when he's aboot later <oK>
My auld mammy, who isn't do-lally yet, gets phone calls like that all the time. They seem to target pensioners. We've got her schooled, though. She hangs up the phone immediately without even speaking to them. Same with any cold calling **** that turns up at her door. The door is closed in their face. If they chap the door again she tells them she's calling one of her sons and they'll be here directly.
Yeah - could you imagine she called gambol and he comes stomping up to her front door with the hardest expression he can muster on his face, complete with beige slacks and snakeskin flats? The guy would be real scared by that.
Actually, it's almost always me. Cos I work for myself she thinks I can drop anything am doing day or night.
Slight thread drift.A few yearsago on Watchdog - (Jim Royle - "Anne Robinson,I'm watching a dog") There was a dodgy plumber ripping off OAP's.My mother's friend in her eighties saw it and this chap had exactly the same name as me,and it's quite an uncommon one.She told ma who was convinced I taken to spannering on people's pipes.We had a good couple of weeks fun before I tol he it wasn't me.
