BSNL Helpline

Me: Hello
Him: Hello
Me: Yea BSNL customer care?
Him: Yes
Me: Yea I wanted my telephone line to switch to tone dial.
Him: Kya??
Me: I want my telephone line to switch to tone dial.
Him: Ek min mai zara aapki baat karwata hun.
(another voice)
Him: Yes sir?
Me: Hello, I want my telephone line to switch to tone dial.
Him: Why?
Me: I want to connect to the internet through my telephone line.
Him: So?
Me: So the thing is that I need tone dial to do that.
Him: What do you have now?
Me: Pulse dial of course.
Him: Toh us se nahi chalega kya?
Me: Nahi.
Him: Why?
Me: Cos my modem doesn't support pulse dial.
Him: Switching to tone dial it'll work?
Me: Yes, can u do that now please (was kinda irritated up now)
Him: Tumhe kaise pata?
Me: I am doing computer engineering . I know. Aap bas kar dijiye.
Him: Well sir aapne bekaar hi is call me paise waste kiye. Iske liye to application lagegi.
Me: What ye toll free no. nahi hai?
Him: Nahi to.
Me: But yahan to likha hai ki 1547 toll free hai
Him: Aapne 1547 milaya hai kya??
(I hung up the phone)

This happened with me one year back trying to connect to internet through bsnl dial up. I did find a way somehow to switch my landline to tone dial but this was really a hell of a conversation. I swear if at all i meet the person somewhere I have a punch reserved for him.