Hmmm. You've thought of a way to prolong and obstruct communication ("What was that number again?") with someone who is paid to provide the illusion of service. So this will be annoying to whom?? Brent On 3/10/2015 5:12 PM, James Propp wrote:
I just thought of a new way to be annoying: When communicating to a customer service agent one of those strings of digits that pervade telephone transactions in this century, encode it as a counting number and recite it accordingly, whether or not it's what people do.
As in "My Social Security Number, ma'am? It's one hundred twenty-three million, four hundred fifty-six thousand, seven hundred eighty-nine" (or whatever).
Or "My credit card number, sir? It's one quadrillion, two hundred and thirty-eight trillion, (etc.)"
Or "My zip code at MIT is two thousand one hundred and twenty nine ... with a zero in the front."
Though I suppose that with a zip code like that, it may be redundant to say "at MIT".
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