AND FINALLY: A giggle at Google

A reader sent us the following, saying he was still laughing an hour after seeing it. Fair enough. But just remember, many a true word is spoken in jest ...

Caller: Hello. Is this Gordon's Pizza?

Google: No sir, it's Google Pizza.

C: I must have dialled a wrong number. Sorry.

G: No sir, Google bought Gordon's Pizza last month.

C: OK, I would like to order a pizza.

G: Do you want your usual, sir?

C: My usual? You know me?

G: According to our caller ID data sheet, the last 12 times you called you ordered an extra-large pizza with three cheeses, sausage, pepperoni, mushrooms and meatballs on a thick crust.

C: OK! Then that's what I want.

G: May I suggest that this time you order a pizza with ricotta, arugula, sun-dried tomatoes and olives on a wholewheat gluten-free thin crust?

C: What? I detest vegetables!

G: Your cholesterol is not good, sir.

C: How the hell do you know?!

G: Well, we cross-referenced your home phone number with your medical records. We have the results of your blood tests for the past seven years.

C: Okay, but I do not want your rotten vegetable pizza! I already take medication for my cholesterol.

G: Excuse me sir, but you have not taken your medication regularly. According to our database, you purchased a box of 30 cholesterol tablets once, at Drug RX Network, four months ago.

C: I bought more from another drugstore.

G: That doesn't show on your credit card statement.

C: I paid in cash.

G: But you did not withdraw enough cash according to your bank statement.

C: I have other sources of cash.

G: That doesn't show on your last tax return unless you bought them using an undeclared income source, which is against the law.

C: WHAT THE HELL?!!!

G: I'm sorry, sir, we use such information only with the sole intention of helping you.

C: Enough already! I'm sick to death of Google, Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and all the others. I'm going to an island without internet, cable TV, where there is no cellphone service and no one to watch me or spy on me.

G: I understand sir, but you need to renew your passport first. It expired six weeks ago...

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