Life Hacking with "$ave Money, Honey!"

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Afternoon SuperForesters!

The other day I heard a wonderful thing from SuperForester Nicholas.

He said that if I was ever to call, say, a bank, or an airline, or any company that would first route me through an automated menu process, there is only one sensible thing to do:

Press Numero Dos.

Here's why. You're an English-speaking caller and you need to talk to a human.
Chances are, there are a lot of English speakers also wanting to speak to a human, so you just end up in a long queue.

Now, if you press "numero dos" (as in the number two,) it will promptly bring you to a Spanish speaking operator. There will probably be no wait.

Chances are this operator speaks English as well as Spanish.

So you say: Hola! yo soy una... question.. para... Uh, hey, do you mind if we speak English? My Spanish is rusty.

And they say: Not at all, sir (madam.) How may I help you?

You just skipped to the front of the line.

You just $aved Money, Honey!

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This is funny: advice from April 6th of this year:




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