Almost anything.

For instance, those random guys from Century Link that stopped by the house on Friday night at dinnertime.  I would almost rather be speaking with them again.

Even though I only answered the door, because we thought it was our son’s friend Brody, who was stopping over to play.  Brody is the only one who ever rings the front doorbell.  Now, I see the need to develop a “secret ring” pattern for him.

Then I chatted with them, because I am friendly and did not want to be rude.  The hook was set.

Even though I repeated several times that we had 18 months remaining on our contract with the cable company, they kept talking.

They had some super fast new Internet product, which I of course would want to switch over to right there, with two random sales dudes, who just dropped by the house.  On Friday night.  At dinnertime.

Why would I not want to switch right there?  No time to research.  Nothing in writing.  Plus, I’m sure the switch from the cable company wound be really easy.  No time off work for some random installation of some such router box type thing or return of all of the random cable company goodies.  Nope, no disruption of service either.  I’m sure that would all go smooth.

I was getting hungry.  I could sense the future and my wife’s question about why I had not yet returned with the Chinese takeout.

Then they asked for my phone number to begin the transfer.  What?  Not what I had even hinted that I would be interested in.

Come back in 18 months, when we are free of existing contracts and we can talk and maybe I could have done some research and maybe I will have forgotten the aggravation by then.

Nope.  Not likely.  On second thought, I would rather be doing my laundry.