Thank you for waiting. One of our advisers will be with you….
mainClassical percussionist Alan Drever-Smith, from Kingston upon Hull, called the taxman. Like everyone else, he was left listening to the music.
For forty minutes.
‘Spent so long on hold today that I transcribed it before they picked up,’ he wrote.
Now he’s famous. More than 800 people have shared Alan’s transcription and the Telegraph have picked up the story.
Maybe he’ll get a tax rebate.
Or make HMRC change its tune.
Has anyone checked their PPL/PRS license?
This is a good idea for the Department of Motor Vehicles here in the USA …
Also one’s health insurance company (Blue Cross Blue Shield in my case).
The bank that issues our credit card plays a loop of perfectly nice selections – an early classical piano sonata, the first movement of Eine Kleine, and a few others, but it switches from one to the other in mid-movement and mid-phrase. Even if I’m perfectly calm at the beginning of the call, I’m always ready to punch whoever comes on the phone by the time I’ve been through that.