The telephone solicitor selling basement waterproofing must have thought
she'd died and gone to heaven when she reached my very polite and patient
son on the phone. At the end of her long sales pitch, she asked, "Do you
mind if we send out someone to give you an estimate?"

"Not at all," my son said.

"When would be a good time?" she asked.

My son answered, "Just as soon as I dig a basement."