I love incompetence

I was listening to something on the radio earlier when I hear a blip about how seniors seeking information about the new Medicare prescription drug program were being directed to a sex line.
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I was laughing my head off because this isn't the first time something like this has happened. I used to work a HIV/STD hotline. Our number was printed on the back of the Medicare cards. Whenever new Medicare cards were mailed out, I spent a week answering calls from seniors looking for Medicare information. I would have to explain that they had the wrong number which led to the "what's the number for" question. I loved the elderly ladies who called because when I said that I could answer questions about safer sex and such, I'd get answers like "oh honey, I don't need that anymore" or my favorite (and this lady called every month I think) "I haven't gotten any in so long that I can't remember what all the fuss is about". Even better were the people who said "well now that I've got you on the phone, let me ask you a couple of questions . . . "

ahhhh, I always used to bitch and moan about the Medicare calls, but in hindsight those were some of the better calls.