THE Fly in the Ointment has my sympathy in his Home Office tribulations.
Thieves no longer wear striped football jerseys, nor do they have a bag marked “swag” over their shoulders. As he has found, it is not possible to stop such obtrusive calls. I used to shorten the conversation by saying, “I will have to speak to Matron”.
However, I have now found that it is very therapeutic to have to hand near the telephone a very old fashioned warning device.
It is one that is clearly understood in any language, and requires no dialogue.
I am advised that it may even bring a pain to the ears of the offender. A referee’s whistle.
Walter Cuthbert Knutsford
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