Photo-A-Day #1928

One of the sunflowers in the side yard has now started to bloom. There are a few about ready to go but this was the first.

So, tonight I was washing the dishes as Allison was giving Eva a bath. The phone rang. I wiped off my gloved hands and picked up the phone. Long pause and then some telemarketer starts their script. I immediately break in on his talk and say, “We have asked you to stop calling us”. He said, “No, give me a minute”, and kept on with his script. I said again, “Take us off your list, stop calling us!” I then hung up. I am so sick of people calling and asking us to be part of a survey or donate to this cause or that one. Who actually wants to get these calls and who actually thinks it is a god idea to donate to some random phone caller.

Well, Allison and I watched a little Warehouse 13 on the DVR (great show on SyFy) and then we went to bed.

Midnight comes around and the phone rings, it wakes us both out of a sound sleep. Allison got to the phone. “Hello, we have asked you to stop calling us. It is midnight. Stop calling us.” On the other end of the line the guy says, “What if I don’t?” Allison hangs up the phone and gets back into bed. She tells me what he said.

The phone rings again. I get it. The person introduces himself as Aaron something. He asks if we want to take a survey. I tell him, “We have asked you to stop calling us, please stop.” He says, “And what if I don’t?” in a dead calm voice. I was rattled. I asked to talk to his manager. He said, “I am the manager”. I ask, “Why won’t you take us off your list?” He says, “Because you were rude to me.” I am irate. “How do you sleep at night!?” He says, “Because this amuses me.” I ask again, “Please do not call again.” He says, “And what if I do?” I said, “I will report this” He says, “To who and what will they do?” I say, “Probably nothing” and then I hang up. I get back into bed seething. My mind is reeling from the conversation and I cannot sleep, I grab my phone and tweet.

I am so sickened by this. I am on edge because the phone could ring anytime. We have no control in this at all. This guy can call every single night, every hour on the hour at anytime and there is nothing we can do about this save changing our number or finally getting rid of the useless home phone. The home phone is pretty much a direct line to every scumbag telemarketer out there.

The phone is pretty much irritation that we pay for every month. We pay for the aggravation of telemarketers, survey people and anyone asking for a handout. I really want to rip them all out of the wall and throw them in a wood chipper.

I also refuse to pay extra anymore for caller id, I got rid of that when we started getting focused on paying off debt. But caller ID would just tell me the call was unknown and I wouldn’t pick it up, that won’t prevent calls from coming in at all hours. If there was some way to say that all unknown callers would not be able to call from 6:30pm to 10:00am or something, that is service I would pay for. I’d also pay for one that sends an air horn through the phone to any telemarketer.