That's the way to do it. I give my number out only those I want to hear from and I will load their numbers into my address book so that I know it's them that are calling. If they use a different phone to call me or block their incoming number, they go to voice mail. I simply will not answer a call from somebody who I do not recognize and wish to speak with.
For some reason, older people don't want to do that. They think it's rude. For instance, even though my mother-in-law has been scammed a few times, she will still politely answer every phone call that comes in no matter what and she will allow any telemarketer to give his/her full pitch. I don't get it. But I guess she's the product of an earlier era when traveling salespeople would knock on her door and pitch things like vacuum cleaners and encyclopedias.
I don’t answer the door either, unless I’m expecting someone. If it’s important or the cops I’m sure they will make that apparent.
Yes. My mom has Alzheimer’s and we have a landline phone in the house only for emergencies. No one we know has that number. When it rings it is telemarketers or surveys. But she thinks we
Should run to answer it because it might be important. Generational thing. She still insists on reading the paper each morning as
If it weren’t full Of anti trump lying propaganda.