This wrong number text to the BBC’s Rory Cellan-Jones just kept getting weirder
The BBC’s technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones tends not to suffer fools gladly, as evidenced by the bone-headed pitches people make to him that subsequently appear on Twitter.
But this one was so weird that even he appeared mildly stumped by the whole thing.
Weird thing this morning- someone texts me wanting a quote on washing machine repair. Hilarity ensues pic.twitter.com/YqvSM8ptnR
— Rory Cellan-Jones (@ruskin147) January 16, 2019
It did, it really did.
It didn’t end there, by all accounts.
well, what do you think of it
— alex hern (@alexhern) January 16, 2019
He got a bit antsy when I refused to go there- which makes me suspicious
— Rory Cellan-Jones (@ruskin147) January 16, 2019
And it prompted some rather good replies.
he simply mistook you for a spin doctor
— Simon Craven (@Simon_Craven) January 16, 2019
That Laura Kuenssberg did a bang-up job on my power shower, though. Good as new, and only charged me £50.
— Rupert Goodwins (@rupertg) January 16, 2019
Do you fix Brexits?
— Pete Clarke (@creativeblock_) January 16, 2019
I especially like the “you there” when you didn’t reply immediately, like he’s a Victorian landowner
— Mandy Powell (@Minimorticia) January 16, 2019
Call yourself the BBC’s Technology Correspondent yet you can’t fix a washing machine? Bring back “Tomorrow’s World” I say. Michael Rodd would’ve been round to fix it for £20 cash on hand …
— Chris Marple-Wimsey (@SieurdePonthieu) January 16, 2019
