Telemarketers

Last night, we had some people who kept calling trying to get us to take some survey about how we get our news. Marc picked up the phone the first time, and told them he wasn't interested. Then they called back like 3 more times during the evening. We have caller ID, so we just didn't bother to pick up the phone.

They called a fifth time (like 10 minutes after they called the fourth time). Marc picked up the phone this time. Before the lady had even said two words, he said, "Yeah. You've called like four times already, and we've been ignoring you. Stop calling us."

Marc, always the blunt and honest one, haha.

I had a run-in with a telemarketer a few years ago. This guy kept calling my parents' house to hawk some student loans for my brothers. This guy had a pretty distinct voice, so I recognized him each time. The first two times he called, I'd barely gotten out the sentence "My parents aren't home right now, can I take a message?" before he'd just hung up on me. Totally rude.

Now, I'm not a nasty person by nature, but I was really put off by this guy. I mean, I'm being really polite by not hanging up on him immediately, and he actually has the gall to hang up on me. So he called again, and this time my response was, "Look, you've called a couple times before, and I know it's you because I recognize your voice, and you've been fucking rude each time." And then I hung up on him.

I only wish I had the guts to do this face-to-face with jerks like that. But it was still pretty gratifying.

Most of the time I don't begrudge the person on the other end of the line, because I know they're just doing their job. It's nice to have caller ID to be able to avoid it though.

Bandit and I finally got to go to agility class last night, after missing the last couple of weeks. He did awesome. We did some really nice jump sequences, and it still amazes me every time how good he is at reading my body language. His weave poles are looking really good too, he was flying through them. I wish we had a bigger yard so that we could practice more at home.

Lastly, check out this auction on eBay. It's for a 900 gallon aquarium. That's not even the funny part. The funny part is the second picture, which shows two people snorkeling in it!