I doubt you would have the integrity to say the same thing face-to-face to a neighbor of mine. She is single (her husband died of cancer), and raising two grade school-age children. She checks eight hours at a grocery story, then goes home to her children. Fixes them dinner, then takes them to her mother’s so she can go spend another four hours evenings working a telemarketing shift. One her days off from the grocery store, she works eight-to-ten hours in the telemarketing room, depending on how much baby-sitting she can arrange with her family. Holier-than-thou folks sort of me me sick
“I doubt you would have the integrity to say the same thing face-to-face to a neighbor of mine.”
I hang up on telemarketers. I also have NO sympathy for anyone who enters my home without an invitation, which is what telemarketers do. I’m on the do not call list (https://www.donotcall.gov/default.aspx), so they are entering my home in violation of a public notice not to do so.
I doubt that your saintly suffering widowed neighbour (sob! sob!) would have the nerve to attempt to sell me face-to-face the useless garbage she sells over the phone.