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The phone rang....... I answered, saying: "Hello?" There was a pause, and I could hear the low rumble of call-center background noise. I steeled myself for the pitch...... A foreign male voice said: "Hello, can I speak to Belinda please?" I paused for a nanosecond--there is nobody named Belinda in my house....
I couldn't help myself..... It came out of my inner-being: 'THERE IS NO ONE NAMED BELINDA HERE, YOU SON-OF-A-BITCH!"
And then, I hung the phone up.....
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We are on both the national and the Florida Do Not Call list. Yet they keep calling. Robocalls telling us our neighborhood is under assault and we qualify for a free home security system. Robocalls telling us we qualify for lower interest rates on our credit cards.
You can press 3 to be removed from the calling list, but that never works. You can press to talk to someone, and ask them why they keep calling us, but that never works. Sometimes I tell them to stuff-it.
Then, at Christmas time, non-profits start calling and begging you for money. They are not covered by the Do Not Call list. There is no way in HELL I am donating to a non-profit that uses a call-center. Call centers would be wise to give their workers private offices, or find a way to tune out the background noise of a boiler-room--that noise is a dead giveaway and a total turnoff. I am going to be generous this Christmas to a good cause that I picked myself, without the aid of someone calling me, so Bug-Off, MF!
Postscript: As I was proofing this post, a guy named John called. He told me the reason he was calling was because we head either a Visa or a Mastercard.... I didn't tell this guy to F-off, but I did tell him I was not interested in listening to his pitch, and hung up.
Sometimes I just want to blow up the phone........
