We have been getting calls from phone numbers we don’t know and it was time to find out who is calling me on 1300-305 515, 03-9982 3611 and 03-8306 5401 as they have been doing it pretty relentlessly for over a week now on our mobile phones.

These calls from this number had us stumped as me and the hugs n kisses have been getting them from around the same time, always when we answer nobody is there.

I know how a lot of the telemarketing computer programs work in regards to having a call already ringing ahead so the exact moment the telemarketer hangs up from the last person they are ready to go with the next call, if your inline at this point and they aren’t ready to talk, guess what, they hang up.

The duration of this timing is measured by the average length of call of the telemarketer, if it is 2 minutes per say, at 1 minute 55 seconds the computer calls the next person and has them ready to go, this is why sometimes you may get a delay but do get an answer and also most times the call centres are overseas too and this aids in the delayed response too.

Now we aren’t green when it comes to telemarketing calls as most people and households in Australia and here in Brisbane receive multiple calls daily, even if you are registered on the do not call register.

So finally I called back to see who was calling us from these phone numbers above.

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I thought I’d share this old man story from the other day when the family and I were at the local supermarket getting the groceries, hence the “Old man look at my life” title.

We were just walking into Woolworths and we had to go around an elderly gentleman on the way into the little gates that open automatically.

He was stationary and had one of those trolleys with two wheels on it that a lot of elderly do, I watched him as we went past because he was a pretty slow mover and I have a tendency to help old people out if they drop something or need something lifted etc, he was slowly going from pocket to pocket feeling for something.

First front pockets of jeans, then back, then pocket in shirt, then front pocket of the little trolley.

We had already entered the supermarket and I was still hawking him and said to the hugs n kisses “I bet he has misplaced his wallet, I hope it wasn’t stolen the poor bugger”, we started to feel sorry for him then as we had hit the fruit section and were starting to get vegetables and fruit, both of us were looking, well, more me looking and keeping an eye on things.

I was thinking to myself, should I go and ask if he is alright? Does he need a hand? How is he going to get home, did he come on the bus and now he will be stranded etc etc.

There were a fair few questions running around in my head.

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