If it's an important call, they could leave a message, and you could return it when you are able. I rarely take calls from telemarketers. You can tell when they call. The first clue is the silence. Dead giveaway it's a junk call. Most people will talk to you right away. Second is, the 'please hold for an important call' recording. Right, how many have actually holded for that? The third option is to have your kids answer. They fight over the phone anyway. They tell them I'm dead or moved. I've finally learned that I am not a slave to my phone. If it rings, it's my phone, and I'll answer it if I'm able. I'm not going to drop everything I'm doing to try to answer it in 30 seconds. I have an answering machine, and that works fine. Maybe I'm just lucky, I don't get that many junk calls. But, I'm still not going to sign up for a government list. Who knows what hillary and her kind would do with it. Remember the FBI files? Maybe I'm stretching it, but I figure, the less government in my life the better.That's an excellent list of the many ways I can adjust to the harassment of others. But I don't have to. It's my GD phone, and in the event one of them does fool me long enough to speak to me, they wither. Again, though, telemarketing harassment is a public nuisance, and the 'public nuisance' has been part of Anglo-saxon jurisprudence for hundreds of years.
P.S. It's 'held' not 'holded.'
hahaha, holded=held, I knew that. (slaps forehead - what was I thinking????)
I guess I don't let telemarketers bother me. I just hang up on them if I get one on the phone. Like I've said, I don't rush to answer the phone. I will answer it on my schedule.