Telemarketer’s

Does anyone else come home after a long day at work to find the phone ringing several times a night by some telemarketer’s firm wanting to ask you questions, sell you a warranty for a vehicle you have never owned, or a burial plot so your family does not have to make those decisions if something happens to you? Or the one calling offering you a great vacation or get away package?


I hate these companies!


I don't want to buy anything. I don't want to refinance my house. Don't you think that if I wanted to, maybe I would've called someone and already taken care of it?


If you must keep calling, please, at least stop asking if my parents are available as I'm in my 50's and my mother lives a half world away. If you really want to talk to her I'll give you her number but be warned she hates you worse than I do and has an air horn at the ready for the sole purpose of blowing it loudly in your ear. She’s in her 80’s and has time on her hands and a wicked sense of humor . . . and being half deaf the air horn doesn’t seem to bother her a bit.


I'm asking nicely Mr./Ms. Telemarketer . . . please take me off your call list for good. If you continue to call, just know that I lie awake at night thinking of things to get back at you. I may find time on my hands and let you do your whole spiel before letting you down with no sale wasting your time as you have wasted mine. Or remember that time at band camp . . .

Ice

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