h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I have you ever had the phone ring right at the moment when you are about to put the choicest bit of the most perfectly cook steak you have ever had the pleasure to taste in your mouth. You put the steak down. Push the chair back, stand up and fall. Ring number 2. You look back and pull your shoelace from under the leg of the table, grab the phone and hear the infernal 3 seconds of clicks while the telemarketing team's computers try and get one of the damned ineffectient humans on the horn to sell you something you didn't know your life hadn't been so unfulfilled without.

Wouldn't it be great if once, just once, you got hear the unmistakable sound of a guilotine falling right as they are saying "hello, mr robbl..." Marie Antoinette's excutioner would be proud