Wednesday, July 19, 2006

insurance

I have had a sudden change of heart.

I no longer consider insurance agents to be the bane of mankind (sorry jp, don't take offense hor. In my eyes, u are not a financial advisor/agent/pesky person. You are one of my preferred bachata partners! hehe).

Yes, i used to avoid them like the plague because everytime they see me, they will somehow, in the most magical sense, know that i hate insurance plans and then try to sell me something.

It's amazing how they can tell that i am under-insured and how they won't take no for an answer. I swear they have some special radar or something...else how would they know?

Anyway, i met up with Winston today and was pleasantly surprised. For one thing, I have been inordinately mean to him. I had been avoiding his calls (I labelled his name as "Do Not Answer" in my phone contact), ignoring his smses and when i accidentally picked up his call (he used a different number to call and I had to pick the call in case it was one of my clients), i was extremely terse, curt, rude and horrid. I figured that I ought to turn them off rather than give them a chance to turn me off.


And yet, he was super chirpy and didn't seem to take offense at my apparent rudeness.

Maybe it's part of the job (I guess you do have to be quite thick-skinned to be an insurance agent to handle all the rejection and rude people) or maybe not. But whether or not it was or wasn't, I was suitably impressed. Impressed because I am extremely turned off by rude people and if someone did that to me, I would probably snap at them.

Anyway, I was impressed enough to listen to him with my full attention.

Interestingly, he didn't try to coerce me into buying a plan. Unlike some other agents that i had been conned/forced/threatened into meeting. Which was very refreshing...because I don't intend make a hasty and half thought through decision of parking my $$$ for 2 decades.

Most agents that I have meet are the "hit-and-run" kind. The type that doesn't really really know what they are talking about. Ask them something and they will just give you a practiced and highly superficial reply...which isn't reassuring at all.

Harlow??!! It's 2 freaking decades and like at least 30 grand we are talking about here ok!

Anyway, turns out this guy is currently taking a Masters in financial services or something like that.

So, yeah, cool.

XxX,

audrey at 20:07

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