This has to be a new record...
I managed to keep a telemarketer on the phone, on 'hold' for forty-five minutes!

Someone from some bank or somewhere phones at around 6:45pm, wanting to tell me about some offer or something. I didn't get any further in to the spiel than that, when I interrupted and said I was going to put them on hold for just a moment while I fetched the householder.
Now, "On Hold" on my phone does exactly that, holds, and doesn't play any inane music, and unfortunately the speaker is disabled as well. So, it makes far more logical sense to me to put the receiver in front of my speakers, and leave iTunes on random.
Then I carried on doing what I was doing anyway, sometimes choosing an upcoming song (I particularly liked "How Long Must This Go On?" from Beauty and the Beast), and every now and then picking up the phone and listening, in the few seconds break between songs. Every time I did check, it was silent, until at 7.30, after 45 minutes of this, the earpiece was beeping to indicate a disconnected call.....
They hung up somewhere between 41 and 45 minutes of music, plus another half a minute or so talking before I began to subject them to this... Perhaps they have a call timer, and aren't allowed to talk longer than 45 mins per call, perhaps the marketer's shift ended at 7.30 and they gave up and wanted to go home, or perhaps they actually held on for three quarters of an hour to hopefully talk to me, and their patience finally ran out!
どっちょだろうさかい～結構楽しかった、意外と。
もう腹が減ってて、食べ物探しに行きやす。

Well, that's what you get for ordering things when you don't know what they are.
Also what one gets for following what Elli tells me to do...

Peoplewatching in Manuka this afternoon, we sit down for a coffee. I'm just about to order my usual style of coffee when I'm berated for having no sense of adventure... Fine, thinketh I, and scan the coffee list and my eyes fall upon something I've not seen before, have no idea what it is (other than coffee, of course), so decide to go for that. After all, it can't be too bad, can it? It is coffee, after all...


Half an espresso shot. HALF a shot!?!? The cup was so not full that I actually missed the coffee when I took that photograph of it..!
Elli is of course by this stage rolling around laughing, as her amply-sized iced coffee (there had to be nearly 400ml in that glass) made my tiny little cup look pathetic in comparison... Sense of adventure, eh?
I was forced to fill the rest of the mug up with cold water just to have enough to drink... my own little iced coffee... though some milk would have been nice...

Sigh...