Were they scared or bored?

[halleyscomet]

Hootiebird and I are home sick today. I just got a call from the "We're calling about your Windows computer" con artists. It's amazing how easy it was to provoke them into spewing out of strings of incoherent insults. When one person ran out of half remembered insults they passed the phone to the next grifter. I'm pretty sure they were just repeating back fragments other people had hurled at them. One of them asked me what I was doing home if I wasn't a loser. I told him I was not home, but at work, where I replaced the barrels on guns. He asked why anyone would want to do that, and I told him to ask his bosses at the call center as I was "sure you work for the kind of people who would know."

There was a few seconds of rapid discussion in what I suppose was their native tongue, followed by the call being disconnected.