Often, when I start to tell telephone solicitors that I won’t send money or give them my password, they hang up.

All kinds of people work in call centers.

So rude. They called me, and then they hang up on me? Sometimes I actually need to talk to them, for example to explain that they have called a home, not a business, and so they will never be able to sell me an improved business listing on Google. Can’t explain if they’ve hung up.

So I often start by saying “Please don’t hang up on me.” Occasionally they hang up anyway. More often they let me speak. Sometimes they’re a touch aggrieved at the suggestion that they might hang up on me.

Not the greatest work situation ever.

Recently a telephone solicitor called Donovan surprised me.

I really apologize that people are hanging up on you, ma’am. Have an amazing day, okay? I’m sorry.

Nice. That was cheering. It made me feel better about the world. I thanked him. And now I’m making him famous. Donovan! He’s a good man! Somebody please give Donovan a better job.

Different Donovan. I assume.
On the Smothers Brothers show in 1969.