Quick Thinking

My phone just rang. One of the umpteen filter-things I employ to weed out robocalls and frauds identified it in the Caller I.D. as "Spam Risk." On a whim, I answered anyway…

ME: Hello.

HIM: May I speak to Mark Evanier please?

ME: That's me. Who are you?

HIM: I'm calling from Quicken Loans about new opportunities to refinance your home.

ME: The caller I.D. said you were a Spam Risk.

HIM: Oh. We get that a lot. Our offers are so unbelievably good that people don't believe them and they report us.

ME: Hey, that's good. Don't call again.

And I hung up on him. But I was impressed with how fast he came up with that…or maybe remembered it.