It's worse than this

A year or two ago a guy from my mobile company phoned me and offered me a brand new phone for nothing. All I had to do was keep on contract with them. I'm one of those people who stay with the same phone until it dies, largely because phones are usually crap at other functions (like web browsing), so are essentially all the same in my eyes, but also for environmental reasons (why create waste?).

When I said thanks but no thanks, the guy on the other end of the line got increasingly irate with me. But I stood my ground. In the end he slammed the phone down without even saying goodbye. I think he must have been on commission or something -- for giving away phones.

It was a bizarre phone call but perhaps illustrative of the modern world in which we live