I'm a very community minded person

Every now and then I look at someone's user info and am intrigued by all the communities they read. So I thought I'd go through the hundred gazillion on my flist. I did this a while ago but the list is now three times as large. A lot of these I joined on a whim and they update so rarely that I never bothered leaving. Dead comms marked with a %, ones I get a lot out of with a *, but the majority of them are kinda dead and/or pretty cool :)
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How not to sell a house

So Cam and I are looking into buying a house. We first met a guy from Mortgage Choice. He was kind of weird.

We then met a woman from Aussie Home Loans, who was much nicer and suggested a much better sounding loan.

Just now Mortgage Choice guy rang up and asked for Cam. The entire point of his call? To figure out how to format a broken memory card.

I'm pretty sure one of the rules of salemanship is not randomly ringing up potential customers and asking them to do you a favour.

According to Cam it's one of the hazards of telling people you're a computer programmer. Which is unfortunate, since he hates helping people(*). Luckily while having a pure maths major got me lots of random "Omigodgrouptheortyishardandmyassignmentisduetommorrow" emails at uni it's not so bad now :) (That and I learned to say "Sure I'll help you, I charge $30 an hour")

(*)Well, helping them with their computers :)