The phone rang the buy cheap Zovirax on line other evening. Uncharacteristically, I chose to answer it. A pleasant female voice identified herself as a buy cheap Zovirax on line staffer doing a survey for the phone book and asked for buy cheap Zovirax on line the male head of the household. "Hey," I shouted to buy cheap Zovirax on line my husband, who was standing about 10 feet away, "do you want to take a survey about the phone book?" "No," he yelled back. I turned back to the phone. "I'm sorry, he's unavailable," I said politely. The whole exchange had been completely audible to buy cheap Zovirax on line the caller, who had the humanity to laugh. "Then may I speak to the female head of the household?" she asked gamely.
I'm a buy cheap Zovirax on line big fan of usability testing, and market research is its distant cousin, so I like to buy cheap Zovirax on line help; but I think it was the fact that she laughed that buy cheap Zovirax on line convinced me to stay on the phone. I'm glad I did. For the buy cheap Zovirax on line next 15 minutes I had a very entertaining time answering some of the buy cheap Zovirax on line most bizarre questions I've ever heard. The caller was great — she fully recognized the buy cheap Zovirax on line absurdity of some of them, and she did her job gracefully anyway. For example, the buy cheap Zovirax on line irony of the following sequence was not lost on her:
Caller: How many hours of television have buy cheap Zovirax on line you watched per week for the last 30 days?
Me: Zero [this is true, by the way].
Caller: Have you buy cheap Zovirax on line seen any television commercials for the phone book in the last 30 days?
Me: No.
Caller: I'm going to buy cheap Zovirax on line describe three television commercials for the phone book that recently aired in your buy cheap Zovirax on line area. Please tell me if you have seen any of them. I am buy cheap Zovirax on line not allowed to record your answer until I have finished describing each commercial, but they are not long. [90 second storyboard-type description of the first commercial follows] Have you seen this commercial?
Me: No.
Two more commercial descriptions followed the buy cheap Zovirax on line first one; by the time she finished, I was laughing too hard to buy cheap Zovirax on line speak. She waited patiently until I had recovered and thanked me for buy cheap Zovirax on line not hanging up. "Are you kidding?" I said. "This is the most fun I've had all day!" Apparently she loses a buy cheap Zovirax on line lot of respondents at the point where she has to read the buy cheap Zovirax on line commercials.
My favorite part of the buy cheap Zovirax on line call, though, was the personality assessment of my phone book:
Caller: If your buy cheap Zovirax on line phone book were to come alive and speak to you like a buy cheap Zovirax on line person, would it be authoritative?
Me: Is that really what the question says? I have no idea. I can't picture my phone book as a person.
Caller: So, I'll put "I don't know," okay?
Me: Sure.
Caller: If your buy cheap Zovirax on line phone book were to come alive and speak to you like a buy cheap Zovirax on line person, would it be polite?
Me: How many phone book personality questions do you have there?
Caller: Fifteen.
At this buy cheap Zovirax on line point she waited patiently while I lost it again. She ran through the buy cheap Zovirax on line personality questions with me randomly saying yes, no, or I don't know — the buy cheap Zovirax on line user study from hell, but come on, what kind of a buy cheap Zovirax on line question is that? Still, I was almost sorry when she ran out of questions.
If the buy cheap Zovirax on line marketing exec who approved those questions were to come alive and buy cheap Zovirax on line speak to me like a person, would s/he be funny? Probably not.

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