One way of dealing with telemarketers

[AhhChoo]

I take my privacy very seriously. My home phone number is not listed and I never do business with people who solicit me over the phone. Any call that tries to solicit my business is a junk call and greatly infuriates me.....it's a serious invasion of my privacy.
I believe in being extremely nasty to any worm who invades the sanctity of my privacy.........telemarketing is a despicable, dishonorable line of work done, mostly, by lowlifes who deserve to be treated in the rudest, most unkind fashion. If telemarketers resent being treated shabbily by the people that the annoy, then it's incumbent upon them to find an honorable line of work.

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great story rhisiart... it must be a tough job to telephone folks at dinner time.

Always happened to me at dinner time. I forgot to say I had a very nice chat with a gal (great voice) who did a telemarking survey (this time I got the call in the afternoon....so I had a moment) concerning movies and the "in-planting of cinemas in malls. Yuk. Years ago, of course. I also told her to say I'm dead on her list, but she sounded so nice I was tempted to invite her out to dinner and say...no I'm NOT dead. When she told me her age (no joke) I said...." well it was nice talking to you. All the best dear and good luck."
SIGH.