Originally Posted by cmac2012

My niceness quotient has gone way down too. I just say, "Unemployed! Can't do it!" as soon as they mangle my name (sure tip off).

My sister's married to a guy with a French name (all right, all right) and her brother in law has a tactic. The name is Boudia, pronounced Bow-day, and when he gets a call where they say, "May I speak to Mr. Boo - dee -uh please," he says, "Hello...hello....(bangs phone against hand, then shouts to the side) Honey, we gotta get this damn phone fixed!"

I got on the "do not call" thing and it helped but I kept getting calls from about 3 Native American relief agencies, having made the mistake of sending one of them $20 about 7 years ago (that'll teach me). One day I said to the guy (I didn't like his attitude) "By the way, I'm on the do not call list," and he says, "that doesn't apply to us, sir" in this limp, snotty sounding voice and I said "Well it applies to me and if you call me again I'm gonna give you an ear fulla $h!t, you got that!"

They still call. Apparently non-profits are exempt (nobody consulted me about that) It's those damn fund raising companies - you're never speaking to an Native American - and these *********s don't know how to do anything else. I mean, Jeez, you'd have to give them $100 a year just to break even on the fund raising asses before a Indians get a penny. And what's worse, I keep getting these calls where my cell screen says "private call" and there's no one there. I'll get two or three of those in an afternoon sometimes, fishing my cell out of my pocket while I'm upside down under some cabinet, and then finally, same "private call" notation, there's the damn telemarketer. Turns out they have these machines that will call several numbers at once and they'll take the first one that answers (saves their precious time not having to listen to a bunch of calls where no one's home) but then they're kind enough to call you back so you don't feel left out.

WHERE'S MY BASEBALL BAT!!

I'm beaten.......damn.