Most of us are inundated with numerous obnoxious phone calls or recordings offering us credit cards, cell phones, chimney cleaning or free vacations to The Bahamas.
If it's a live person, you can request them to stop calling you, but it's rarely honored. Most recently, the marketers are using prerecorded messages. Even if you opt to speak to a live sales person to remove your number, the calls continue ad nauseam. You plead, beg, threaten, yell, scream, but those calls continue like clockwork. Usually the phone rings when you are in middle of scrubbing the oven with your rubber gloves up to your elbows or you are trying to catch up with some reading.
You can register your phone number with the State by placing it on the Do Not Call List, but that has rarely worked. Have you ever had roaches? You know, if you don't continue spraying on a regular basis, those critters will come back healthier than ever! In other words, new callers crop up who don't bother checking these lists.
Of course, you have the option of not picking up the line. You already know who is calling by seeing the same name and number on your caller ID, but rest assured, those calls will continue hounding you.
Occasionally, we feel pity for these poor souls and try to good humor them by asking politely to remove our number from their records. They always promise to do it, but next time it's another sales representative who is totally clueless!
What's the use of threatening suit? It's like uncovering a yellow jacket's nest. If you disturb it, watch out! They'll come after you and sting you again. No wonder so many people no longer have landline phones, but use cell phones exclusively. Even cell phone numbers are beginning to appear on network marketing lists. Watch out, they'll have your number soon...
Granted, people have to make a living. Some of the products that are offered may actually be desirable. It's only that most of us have lost our homes to hosts of invaders disturbing our serenity and privacy. There has got to be a better way!
Usually, I write strictly for my own enjoyment. Occasionally, I find it therapeutic.
Aija Pelshe 516-433-4137
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