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Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: The Laughing Policeman on September 17, 2012, 07:25:38 PM

Title: Phone calls from the club.
Post by: The Laughing Policeman on September 17, 2012, 07:25:38 PM
About ten days ago I had a phone call from the club asking me if I'd considered having a season ticket this season. I think the lady I spoke to was called Donna. I explained that at the moment due to a serious illness in the family I was taking things on a match by match basis, and that was that or so I thought.
A few minutes ago I had another call from the club, this time it was a guy called Paul who told me the last time I went to a match was Arsenal last season, I put him right and told him I was there on Saturday. Then he wanted to know if I was going to the Baggies match and once again I had to explain my situation and that I just didn't know. He apologized to me for the call.
Surely when the club rings people and they explain why they can't get to every match a note could be made on their booking history to let others know not to ring again.
 
Title: Re: Phone calls from the club.
Post by: Rip Van We Go Again on September 17, 2012, 07:30:11 PM
They phoned me up about the away game at Newcastle, when I told them that I don't attend away matches, they said that 'They'd send somebody round to sort me out.'
Whatever that means.
Title: Re: Phone calls from the club.
Post by: N'ZMAV on September 17, 2012, 07:31:03 PM
They don't ring me :(
Title: Re: Phone calls from the club.
Post by: eamonn on September 17, 2012, 07:41:06 PM
Aren't our season-ticket numbers at their highest since '07/08? Doing pretty well considering the atrocious value for money last season.
Title: Re: Phone calls from the club.
Post by: Ghost of Pongo Waring on September 17, 2012, 08:21:36 PM
I had a call off Donna a couple of weeks ago as well, asking if I was interested in getting a season ticket as the seat I'd had for years was still available.

I explained that I'd had to give up work to become a full time carer but was hoping to go to as many home games as possible and might look at a half season ticket when they're available. I'd already bought 'my' seat for the games up to the Baggies game and asked her when the Norwich game would be available. She then offered to call me when it came on sale.

Tonight I got another call from her to say that the Norwich games now available and if I still wanted a ticket there would be no booking fee as they'd rang me. So I saved a couple of quid and she's going to call me on Thursday so I'll save the booking fee on the Man U game as well.

She's been very pleasant and helpful and gets a thumbs up from me.



Title: Re: Phone calls from the club.
Post by: Percy McCarthy on September 17, 2012, 08:41:00 PM
They phoned me and asked if I wanted a BMW. When I said 'yes' the bloke shouted 'you want a black man's willy' and I could hear them all giggling in the background.
Title: Re: Phone calls from the club.
Post by: Steve R on September 17, 2012, 08:50:16 PM
Some time last year I received a call for the club asking if I were interested in hiring corporate facilities.

I explained that I was retired and had a good laugh with whoever it was. Were the conference rooms zimmer frame friendly? Would cocoa be available at the bar?

What surprised me was that there was no mention at all of my lapsed season ticket.
Title: Re: Phone calls from the club.
Post by: PeterWithe on September 17, 2012, 10:04:28 PM
They've stopped calling me due to my heavy breathing and asking the caller what they are wearing.
Title: Re: Phone calls from the club.
Post by: peter w on September 17, 2012, 10:08:07 PM
They called me and asked if I knew Theresa Green. When I said the person grunted and snotted himself saying, 'ur urrrrrrrrrhhhhhhh' how can anyone not know that trees are green.
Title: Re: Phone calls from the club.
Post by: pauliewalnuts on September 17, 2012, 10:09:27 PM
They phoned me, but made the mistake of doing so on my landline, which we never answer.

Only old people (my parents, my mother in law) and telemarketing people call landlines these days.
Title: Re: Phone calls from the club.
Post by: bertlambshank on September 17, 2012, 10:11:39 PM
They rang me before the start of last season asking who should be manager.I said TSM.
Title: Re: Phone calls from the club.
Post by: not3bad on September 17, 2012, 10:21:44 PM
They don't ring me :(

Nor me. :(
Title: Re: Phone calls from the club.
Post by: The Left Side on September 17, 2012, 10:30:56 PM
I called them and asked if their fridge was running, when they replied it was... I said they had better go catch it then!! I am here all week.
Title: Re: Phone calls from the club.
Post by: olaftab on September 17, 2012, 10:34:23 PM
They don't ring me :(
It's not important but do they have your phone number?
Title: Re: Phone calls from the club.
Post by: Californian Villain on September 18, 2012, 05:14:10 AM
They don't ring me :(

Nor me. :(

Nor me...but they do incessantly email me with one piece of crap after another.
Title: Re: Phone calls from the club.
Post by: Rip Van We Go Again on September 18, 2012, 07:03:13 AM
Had the 3rd call from them in a week this morning, asking 'If I was a bummer tied to a tree?'
For the third time I replied in the negative and once again got an earful of 'Bummer on the loose!'
Title: Re: Phone calls from the club.
Post by: peter w on September 18, 2012, 07:36:11 AM
Sod's woke me up with 'Were you born with happiness'? I thought I'd outwit them and said 'no'. They started shouting and laughing down the phone saying, 'you just said you weren't born with a penis'.
Title: Re: Phone calls from the club.
Post by: QBVILLA on September 18, 2012, 12:00:30 PM
I had a call off Donna a couple of weeks ago as well, asking if I was interested in getting a season ticket as the seat I'd had for years was still available.

She's been very pleasant and helpful and gets a thumbs up from me.





You old dog!
Title: Re: Phone calls from the club.
Post by: villan from luton on September 18, 2012, 12:10:48 PM
I had a call off Donna a couple of weeks ago as well, asking if I was interested in getting a season ticket as the seat I'd had for years was still available.

She's been very pleasant and helpful and gets a thumbs up from me.





You old dog!

I can confirm that Donna is far from being an old dog
Title: Re: Phone calls from the club.
Post by: not3bad on September 18, 2012, 12:48:50 PM
FAO Donna

If I give you my number (If I give you my number)
Will you call (will you call)
Will you call (will you call me)
Title: Re: Phone calls from the club.
Post by: Percy McCarthy on September 18, 2012, 01:36:15 PM
Just for a change, I decided to phone the club when they were advertising a vacancy for a carpenter, and funnily enough, it was the delectable Donna I spoke to. She sounded lovely, so I affected a pronounced stutter to keep her on the line as long as possible.

Me: I'm r-ringing about the j-j-job in the puh-paper.

Donna: Ok, have you any experience?

Me: I w-w-worked at Mac-Mac-MacAlpine's for f-f-five years; W-W-Wimpy's for t-t-ten. I was a f-f-foreman at Wimpy's, I had t-t-twenty blokes working for me.

Donna: You sound ideal. I shouldn't really say this but if you bring your paperwork in tomorrow, the job's yours.

Me: Great. What was the job again?

Donna: A shuttering carpenter.

Me: Oh sorry, I thought the ad said stuttering carpenter.
Title: Re: Phone calls from the club.
Post by: Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle on September 18, 2012, 03:27:30 PM
*chortle*
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