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[dolari]

AWFW is all pencilled, and rather nice, I think.

There's been this lady calling our house. LEaves a message all the time, askign for "Shelly" to call her back. She never leaves a number, though, and she's been calling for a few months. I've been wanting to pick up the phone to tell her that the reason Shelly never makes it to the coffee house or what not is because she's calling a wrong number.

Anyways, someone calls and it kinda sounds like her on our machine going "Hello? Hello!" So I finally pick up the phone to tell her Shelly isn't here, and someone begins their "With MCI, you'll get cheaper long distance..." I tell her "I'm not interested" and go to hang up the phone...only to hear "YOU HAVE NO CHOICE! WE'RE MCI! WE'RE THE PHONE COMPANY! Now, you'll get cheaper long distance if."

I laughed at her, told her I wasn't interested, and hung up - you could hear her voice raised as I hung up.

Considering the lovely tactics used, I've asked Dean (who keeps up the phone bill) to make sure we weren't slammed.

Wow, the nerve of some telemarketers. :)

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[drkbish.livejournal.com]

That reminds me of this one time some solicitor called for me. My father answered the phone and said, "Scott, it's such-and-such... you want to take this call?" He was in the kitchen; I was in the living room laying on the couch and well within earshot of the phone, and I said back, "Tell them I'm not here."

My dad said to the telemarketer, "He's not here right now... would you like to leave a message?" The telemarketer just paused (as it was obvious she heard me in the background), and just said she'd call back.

:-)