Needed: Phone "Actress"

For the past five years or so, I've received compliments on my phone voice. I never really thought about it until recently when it became a weekly thing. My now ex told me I had a great voice when we talked on the phone. When I got my first job at a call center they told me I sounded great on the calls. At my second job (at a much smaller, and way more fun) call center, I heard the same thing, from my supervisors, co-workers, and mainly, clients.

Over the year or so I spent in Client Service, I got asked to go skiing in Salt Lake, to run away with many of them (to exotic locales like... North Dakota), and I got asked for my phone number and email address more times than I can count. I learned how to dodge the flirtation with charm and humor from my other co-workers. I think if you have a job where you spend a lot of time on the phone with people, eventually it's just going to happen.

When I started my new job I was again in a position where I was talking to people from all over the country. I've been here three months, and below is a collection of the most memorable.

Ben, a real estate agent in Ohio who called me every day one week and admitted to making up questions just so he could talk to me. He asked me if I would call him at home. (Um, no. was my answer) When I would explain things to him, he would zone out. He told me that he didn't know how anyone could talk to me and not get distracted, because my voice was so amazing.

Lisa, an agent in Indiana told me that my accent was so adorable, and she thought I was the "cutest thing". It took me a while to figure out she was flirting with me, and when I did, I got so flustered.

Ray, an agent in North Carolina flirted with me unmercifully, so much so that all I could do was giggle. I couldn't help it, he was so charming and I'm not made of stone. He called me almost every day one week, and he signed all his emails to me "xoxoxo" (tee-hee-hee)

Curtis, a man from Utah, kept me on the phone for 45 minutes. He immediately started asking me where I was from, if I was married, informed me that with a voice like mine I had to be one of those "pretty girls" (okay, Curtis) and started calling me Sunshine. He asked me extremely personal questions that made me uncomfortable. I was trying to hurry him along, but he wouldn't hang up with me. My co-worker Lynne tried to help me by coming over (TWICE) to tell me servers were shutting down. I told him twice I needed to go? And he said "No." Finally I hung up with him. Josh and I call him Creepy Curtis. "Yeah, that guy's a jerk, but at least he's not a Creepy Curtis."

I have had about 4-5 men try to find out what my real name was. (Uh, it's Cookie) I've had many who just flirt with me, ask me where I'm from, if I'm married, etc. I use humor to get out of asking personal questions. I cute my way back to the subject at hand, and sometimes... I just go with it.

"So, Cookie, what do you do for fun?"
"For fun? I don't know.. read.. see how long I can go without answering personal questions.."
"Ha! Good one, you're clever."
"This? Is true."
"Hahaha, you are so cute."
"Also true."
"How'd you get to be so cute?"
"I was just born this way. It is my gift and my curse."
"Ah, I see, so you've always had this power?"
"I have. And with great power..."
"Comes great responsibility."
"Indeed."

And.... do you guys know that phone sex operators can work out of their homes and make a lot of money? Cause after a particularly weird and flattering week I felt the need to look into it.

If ONLY my morals were a little looser...