Kubota Shoots Themselves In The Foot With Survey On My Experience

[Luke'sScreenName]

I like phone surveys the most. To be fair, I warn the caller that I'm not interested in the survey. They usually insist, and so it starts. There are two main approaches, one that I end up asking more questions than they do, so they get frustrated and end the call.

The second, and my favorite, is to tell them that if they will answer one simple question of mine, I'd be happy to help with their survey.
The question is, "What is the flying velocity of an unladen swallow?" Tricky question, as anyone that's seen Monty Python's Holy Grail can attest.
The right answer, near as I can determine, is 47 mph. That's important, because to be fair, you have to have the "right" answer in mind, just in case.
I haven't had to fulfill my promise to finish a survey yet.

But you never specified if it was a European or African sparrow!

 

[Chilly807]

According to my sources, there really isn't much difference in them, which knowledge would have saved the old man at the bridge. And not to be picky, but it was a swallow.. lol.
Try googling "flight speed of a swallow" sometime. It's really quite funny and vaguely informative. I say vaguely because it took me a fair bit of reading in some wildly rambling articles to come to the 47 mph figure.
The last time I used it on a hapless surveyor, there was a pause for several seconds, then she replied, "Ummm.. I don't know? " To which I replied, "Right then! Over the edge with you!!" in my best British accent and hung up the receiver.
I hope some day she gets to watch The Holy Grail and realizes where the question came from. Most phone harassers are either too young or of the wrong nationality to have seen the movie.

 

[check]

Not once, but TWICE a car salesperson asked me to return the survey BLANK to them personally!