‘Taking Calls’ – in general parlance would mean ‘willing to
receive telephone calls’.
The modern World has forgotten the art of communication,
though is talking more and talking more louder too. Most people do not seem to keep their mobiles
down, irrespective whether they are in public place, in theatre, Temple
Still, there are many calls which go unconnected – you call
someone urgently, it keeps ringing; you hear a song or caller tone which no
longer is pleasant or at times you get a continuous busy tone – you try calling
the no. again and again – then you think that the caller would return the
call……. Nothing happens – you are unable to communicate, curse the system, the
recipient and everybody else and try to shift the blame stating ‘you could not
get through’.
Remember that closer 2 decades ago, there were a single or
at best of couple of telephone lines for an entire office and still people
could call, talk, communicate, freely
exchange and make them heard in the manner they liked. How was that possible – one wonders !!
If you are the one to take the call at the first or next
ring, you could feel the annoyance of pesky unsolicited calls – asking for
personal details, offering personal loans and trying to sell products which you
would never require in life. There have
been announcements by TRAI that this menace would be curbed. There were reports that the Govt. last year,
disconnected over 51,000 telephone numbers of unregistered telemarketers.
Besides, 88307 notices have been sent to subscribers who have not registered as
a telemarketer but were doing the telemarketing activities till July, 2012 –
but the irking unsolicited calls and messages do continue, though reduced to a
large extent now.. understand that
‘140’ number series stands allotted to
registered telemarketers.
This is entirely different post…. !! – if this man had not
taken the call, it would not have been a news at all – after all no one wanted
him to carry a mobile and sure none would take the call at that time. The
daredevil person did !!!!
Yes, I do want to buy life
Insurance said this Frenchman, precariously balancing above a breathtaking
1,000 foot drop on a narrow highline; he even stopped to chat for twenty minutes.
Although he was wearing a safely rope, it was still an awesome spectre.
Here is a report as it appeared in www.dailymail.co.uk – by
Emma Clark.
They say it's good to talk but thrill-seeker Trancede Melet
could have been forgiven for letting this call go to voicemail. Despite precariously
balancing above a breathtaking 1,000 foot drop on a narrow highline, the brave
Frenchman was happy to answer the badly-timed call and even stopped to chat for
twenty minutes.
Vertigo free Mr Melet was caught on camera during the
dizzying stunt to cross a 20 metre gap between two cliffs, with just a harness
around his waist attached to a small rope to keep him safe.
Mountaineer photographer Alexandre Buisse looked on in
amazement as the professional daredevil crossed the line between two cliffs in the Dalles
'Tancrede is well known in France as a highliner and has
starred in a film about the sport, he just saw his phone ringing and decided to
answer it, he didn't mind the fact he was so high up in the air.
I personally wouldn't have answered it, or maybe put my
phone on silent if I knew I was going to do something like this, but not
Tancrede.' Alexandre, who travels the world documenting the amazing high-wire
sport, said he loved photographing it because of the contrast between the
person and the extreme background. 'Obviously the position of the person is
very exposed which just adds to the sense of danger you get from this, all they
have keeping them on the rope is a little piece of wire.'
A real dare devil indeed
With regards – S. Sampathkumar .
Photos courtesy : Daily Mail.
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