Posted on 02/06/2018 1:18:28 PM PST by huckfillary
Let's face it, nobody but my mother-in-law likes phone solicitors. She'll talk to them for hours and the Jehovah's Witnesses that knock on her door every Saturday morning. She once hung up on my wife because the Jehovah's witnesses were knocking on the door.
But this is mostly about handling phone solicitors. The phone rings. You know immediately it's a solicitor.
Homeowner: This is Chief Inspector Flanagan from Homicide. You've called in the middle of a crime scene investigation. The homeowner was found dead a short while ago. But while you're on the phone, let me ask you some questions about your relationship with the deceased.
In no time at all, the solicitor will have hung up.
This is classic!
No.
Of course not.
That would be Silly!
You’re projecting again.
Since they often call at dinnertime I used to ask them if they could call me back after they get off work and get home. They have no answer for that. :-)
I used to have a message in my phone answering machine...
“Hi, You have reached (blank’s) automated phone network.
If you like pressing buttons you may press one now.
If you don’t like pressing buttons press two.
If you’re confused press three.
If you would like to leave a message you may do so after the beep.”
Only your friends will bother to wait to the end to leave a message.
My mother used to put the phone down next to the radio and let them listen to that for a while. She’d walk away & come back later & hang up the phone.
I put the phone next to the TV and let them listen to that for a while. Then, I do the same thing my mother did.
LOL
Caller would be engaging in self contradiction if so. This sounds imaginary.
I might have agreed with you several years ago, when solicitors were just trying to be persistent in selling their product. Now, however, virtually every call I get is some criminal in India trying to scam people. That’s a very different situation, and those perpetrating these calls deserve no mercy. Tying up as much of their time as possible is therefore performing a public service as it at least slows them down a bit in their effort to defraud others.
You certainly are, and I feel sorry for you.
Thank you - wanted to post that
If that’s your conviction, then why not get the details and forward them to appropriate authority with a description of the unethical deal that was proposed?
Personally, I wish I could reach through the phone line like a cartoon character, grab the scammer's throat, slowly squeeze every last breath of life from his body, and then throw the corpse into a back alley where it would be devoured by rats and feral dogs.
And that's if they call me when we're not eating dinner.
I don't think any Freepers would get a bad rep for this. My guess is that there are millions of RINOs and liberals who feel exactly as I do.
“Hello this is Lenny”...the ducks quacking cracks me up every time!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSoOrlh5i1k
Use these files and do this yourself. Have fun!
http://www.soundboard.com/sb/itslenny
“————maybe a kind nudge could still say more than self righteous raillery.”
Can’t agree,but we are all different.
THEY disturb US,and they are no more deserving of a kind nudge than someone that keeps ringing you doorbell.
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Unless it's a collection agency that keeps calling about some “Margy Johnson” (spelled that way) that seems to owe money on a cable bill. It's been going on for 15 years, anyway, and we don't know, have never known, and will probably never know this person.
I can't repeat what I told the last collection agent that called about this woman, but if you are said Margy Johnson, please get this straightened out.
But my method works on other types of calls.
“Tying up as much of their time as possible is therefore performing a public service as it at least slows them down a bit in their effort to defraud others.”
Exactly right. I especially like the ones from Microsoft support that want to get into your computer. They get royally pissed when you play dumb. They also like discussing things in a pornographic matter when they get really mad. I’m thinking those guys aren’t getting enough from the goat herd.
Because there's no "deal", FRiend.
The whole point of the call is to get your credit or debit card number, so they can immediately vacuum as much out of the account as possible.
Have a friend who learned about three phrases (having to do with negotiating the price with a prostitute) in Japanese. Works every time...Caller (unless it’s one of his buddies) hangs up almost immediately...
I LOVE LENNY. I want to start a Lenny fan club. The ducks are a riot.
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