*Phone Calls

First somebody called me and aked for 'kaYla..
I replied, there's no kaYla at this # and hung up on her.
You don't pronounce my name right, you don't get to talk to me.
Period!!
Then,
I keep getting these calls asking for my deceased (since 1991) MIL.
Some cretin just called and asked for her, and I told him in a real snotty
tone,
"how dare you call someone who has been deceased for a # of years"?
Take her off your damn list!!"
Then he proceded to 'try' and talk to me,
not offering an apology, and I barked " I don't even want to talk to you!!
and hung up! If someone calls me next time and asks for her, I'm going to
demand to talk to the supervisor and give him a piece of my mind,
which there's not much of left anyway.
What is wrong with people???
I'm not usually snotty with 'phone people', as I've been there, done that
for a lot of years, and most of them are nice, and I politely decline their
'offers' tell them to have a nice day, etc. Yes, I have Caller ID, but
sometimes DH gets 'legit' 800 calls.
I hate the 'recorded' ones I get too, and I usually listen and hit #2 to opt
out of their lists. But they sell my # to other 'lists'. I don't even turn
the phones
on till around noon.
One afternoon, I was taking a catnap with my funny puuring Mosey and someone
called, asked for me, DH had answered the phone, as mine in the bedroom was
turned off.
Turns out they wanted to send me, a little old lady, some porn videos
He declined.
LOL
Sheesh
Anyhoooo
Hugs
Kyla

On Apr 2, 7:10*pm, "Kyla =^. .^=" wrote:
One afternoon, I was taking a catnap with my funny puuring Mosey and someone
called, asked for me, DH had answered the phone, as mine in the bedroom was
turned off.
Turns out they wanted to send me, a little old lady, some porn *videos
He declined.
LOL
Sheesh
Anyhoooo
Hugs
Kyla

What??!!! That was surely some kids pranking you!
It's a rare thing for us to get a solicitor these days. That no-call
list
really helped stop that for the most part.
Sherry

The no call list didn't help much where I live. Now, they are starting on
cell phone.

Funniest that I got said " Do to your excellent driving record, our records
show you have not had a ticket nor an accident in the last 10 years, you are
entitled to purchase this low cost insurance." I messed with them a bit
then said "How long has this been available to legally blind persons?" Can
you believe they hung up on me? THE NERVE!
"Sherry" wrote in message
...
On Apr 2, 7:10 pm, "Kyla =^. .^=" wrote:
One afternoon, I was taking a catnap with my funny puuring Mosey and
someone
called, asked for me, DH had answered the phone, as mine in the bedroom
was
turned off.
Turns out they wanted to send me, a little old lady, some porn videos
He declined.
LOL
Sheesh
Anyhoooo
Hugs
Kyla

What??!!! That was surely some kids pranking you!
It's a rare thing for us to get a solicitor these days. That no-call
list
really helped stop that for the most part.
Sherry

Granby wrote:
The no call list didn't help much where I live. Now, they are
starting on cell phone.

You can register your cell phone for Do Not Call the same as a land-line.
When I got here in January Mom's phone rang off the hook with telemarketing
calls. Now she gets the occasional auto-dialed call but those are easy
enough to hang up on. And in fact I've discovered if with those auto-dialed
recorded calls you can press 2 on your phone and it removes you from being
called back.

Jill

Funniest that I got said " Do to your excellent driving record, our
records show you have not had a ticket nor an accident in the last 10
years, you are entitled to purchase this low cost insurance." I
messed with them a bit then said "How long has this been available to
legally blind persons?" Can you believe they hung up on me? THE
NERVE! "Sherry" wrote in message
...
On Apr 2, 7:10 pm, "Kyla =^. .^=" wrote:
One afternoon, I was taking a catnap with my funny puuring Mosey and
someone
called, asked for me, DH had answered the phone, as mine in the
bedroom was
turned off.
Turns out they wanted to send me, a little old lady, some porn videos
He declined.
LOL
Sheesh
Anyhoooo
Hugs
Kyla

What??!!! That was surely some kids pranking you!
It's a rare thing for us to get a solicitor these days. That no-call
list
really helped stop that for the most part.
Sherry

That is mostly what I get. That and politically recorded junk.
"jmcquown" wrote in message
. ..
Granby wrote:
The no call list didn't help much where I live. Now, they are
starting on cell phone.

You can register your cell phone for Do Not Call the same as a land-line.
When I got here in January Mom's phone rang off the hook with
telemarketing calls. Now she gets the occasional auto-dialed call but
those are easy enough to hang up on. And in fact I've discovered if with
those auto-dialed recorded calls you can press 2 on your phone and it
removes you from being called back.

Jill

Funniest that I got said " Do to your excellent driving record, our
records show you have not had a ticket nor an accident in the last 10
years, you are entitled to purchase this low cost insurance." I
messed with them a bit then said "How long has this been available to
legally blind persons?" Can you believe they hung up on me? THE
NERVE! "Sherry" wrote in message
...
On Apr 2, 7:10 pm, "Kyla =^. .^=" wrote:
One afternoon, I was taking a catnap with my funny puuring Mosey and
someone
called, asked for me, DH had answered the phone, as mine in the
bedroom was
turned off.
Turns out they wanted to send me, a little old lady, some porn videos
He declined.
LOL
Sheesh
Anyhoooo
Hugs
Kyla

What??!!! That was surely some kids pranking you!
It's a rare thing for us to get a solicitor these days. That no-call
list
really helped stop that for the most part.
Sherry

"jmcquown" wrote in message
. ..
Granby wrote:
The no call list didn't help much where I live. Now, they are
starting on cell phone.

You can register your cell phone for Do Not Call the same as a land-line.
When I got here in January Mom's phone rang off the hook with
telemarketing calls. Now she gets the occasional auto-dialed call but
those are easy enough to hang up on. And in fact I've discovered if with
those auto-dialed recorded calls you can press 2 on your phone and it
removes you from being called back.

Jill


I'll have to try that. We are getting fairly constant recorded calls from a
couple of places. Like once a day.

Jo

Jo Firey wrote:
"jmcquown" wrote in message
. ..
Granby wrote:
The no call list didn't help much where I live. Now, they are
starting on cell phone.

You can register your cell phone for Do Not Call the same as a
land-line. When I got here in January Mom's phone rang off the hook
with telemarketing calls. Now she gets the occasional auto-dialed
call but those are easy enough to hang up on. And in fact I've
discovered if with those auto-dialed recorded calls you can press 2
on your phone and it removes you from being called back.

I'll have to try that. We are getting fairly constant recorded calls
from a couple of places. Like once a day.

Jo

It doesn't work with *all* of those recorded calls but seems to with a good
number of them. I only learned about it because one day I listened to the
stupid message all the way through, intending to get to a real person and
tell them to cut it out! At the very end the recording said something like
press 1 to reach an agent now, press 2 to be removed from our list.

Jill

We have 2 'pre-paid' cell phones, for 'emergency' only.
They ring 'sometimes' when they're being charged.
I make DH take his if he goes out without me, in case something happens/slow
traffic, etc, or if I forget to tell him to pick up whatever I forgot to
put on the list.
When we go to a big store together, we can use them for 'locaters'. I'll be
on aisle 20 in the catfood section and he'll be over someplace else, so
we'll meet in the
'produce' dept or something.
Text messaging is a whole 'nother matter altogether.
I can see how it can be used 'usefully' for those who are hearing/speech
impaired, or otherwise impaired,
but why do teen-agers sit there and text to each other when they can just '
talk'? Geez, that makes NO sense to me at all.

"Granby"
The no call list didn't help much where I live. Now, they are starting on
cell phone.

Geez Sherry. The NERVE of them indeed.
Good for you to mess with them like that EG
Hug
Kyla

Funniest that I got said " Do to your excellent driving record, our
records show you have not had a ticket nor an accident in the last 10
years, you are entitled to purchase this low cost insurance." I messed
with them a bit then said "How long has this been available to legally
blind persons?" Can you believe they hung up on me? THE NERVE!
"Sherry"
Geez Sherry. The NERVE of them indeed. Good for you to mess with them like
that EG

On Apr 2, 7:10 pm, "Kyla =^. .^="
One afternoon, I was taking a catnap with my funny puuring Mosey and
someone
called, asked for me, DH had answered the phone, as mine in the bedroom
was
turned off.
Turns out they wanted to send me, a little old lady, some porn videos
He declined.
LOL
Sheesh
Anyhoooo
Hugs
Kyla

What??!!! That was surely some kids pranking you!
It's a rare thing for us to get a solicitor these days. That no-call
list
really helped stop that for the most part.
Sherry

Text messaging is a whole 'nother matter altogether.
I can see how it can be used 'usefully' for those who are hearing/speech
impaired, or otherwise impaired,
but why do teen-agers sit there and text to each other when they can just '
talk'? Geez, that makes NO sense to me at all.

It can also be really useful for folks who just rally, raelly hate to talk
on the phone

My employer supplies me with a cell phone, and they don't object to me
using it for personal calls. But they don't want us sending personal text
messages, so I've got a 2nd cell phone, one I pay for myself, that is just
for text messaging. I know it's weird, but I absolutely hate to talk on
the phone.

Dan

Daniel Mahoney wrote:
Text messaging is a whole 'nother matter altogether.
I can see how it can be used 'usefully' for those who are
hearing/speech impaired, or otherwise impaired,
but why do teen-agers sit there and text to each other when they can
just ' talk'? Geez, that makes NO sense to me at all.

It can also be really useful for folks who just rally, raelly hate to
talk on the phone

I can't *stand* talking on the phone! When I did (phone) tech support for
such a long time, I'd turn the ringer off the moment I got home from work.
I don't have caller ID (I refuse to pay extra for it); these days I screen
calls via my answering machine. If I'm home and if you catch me in a rare
mood, I'll answer

My employer supplies me with a cell phone, and they don't object to me
using it for personal calls. But they don't want us sending personal
text messages, so I've got a 2nd cell phone, one I pay for myself,
that is just for text messaging. I know it's weird, but I absolutely
hate to talk on the phone.

Nothing weird about it, Dan. I'm with you. My friends (as kili can
attest!) preface calls by saying, "I know you hate talking on the phone,
but..." LOL I don't do the text-msg thing, either. I wouldn't even HAVE a
cell phone if I didn't travel. That's the only time it ever gets used and I
have a bare bones (very few minutes) plan.

Jill