esure? Are you sure?

The insurance for the Jeep is due on Sunday of all days. Anyway given the fact that I can’t be bothered to ring lots of insurance companies I tried the much advertised gocompare website. I’m always skeptical when you are forced to put in your phone number, so I put in a number that goes to a line here on my desk that gets used for some work stuff.

Anyway esure came out the cheapest quote by about £40, so I closed the browser window whilst I thought about what to do.

Moments later this phone rings and it is a call centre monkey asking whether I wanted to go ahead with them as they were the cheapest quote I’d had. I stopped the girl dead in her tracks when I said no, she seemed genuinely confused as to why I didn’t want to buy the cheapest policy for the car.

With great pleasure I told her that there were two reasons I wasn’t going to go ahead. Firstly I’d not asked to be called and had ticked a box which said “Do not contact me by phone, post or email.” And secondly, their TV adverts with Michael Winner were so annoying to me, that I could never buy their products.

After the call had finished I suddenly thought I could have ended the call with a “Calm down dear,” sometimes my brain doesn’t work as quick as I’d like it to because that would have been a great parting shot!