I discovered quite by accident one day that if I called my prescription provider's tollfree Call Center's peeps and sounded REALLY old-- wavery, slow, tremulous old-lady voice-- they would do back flips to help the "dear old soul" out. They are so geared for the aged baby boom that they've been trained how to suck bucks off the eldery by "helping" us. Okay!!!

Well, the day I called, I had a bad cold making me sound that way; lingering laryngitis merely gave me a weird sound.


So now when I need UberHelp anywhere, via phone, I sometimes go into that mode on purpose. Then, at the end of the call, I revert to my real voice-- powerfully "present" I am told-- and say a perky, "Thanks for your help, [name]!"

Hey, when they pop my record up they usually have a birfday for me staring them in the face, and ask me to verify it. So if they think I'm 89 but born in '53, who de foo'?

~Susan