Y’know, I’m just about at the point where I can imagine not having a phone at all. Not ANY phone!
These days a phone — especially a land line — is more of a nuisance than a convenience. This morning the f*kin land line jangled for the third time — BEFORE 9:00 A.M.! — with a**holes trying to hustle me. Last time, I took a DEEEEEP breath and SHRIEKED INTO THE GODDAM PHONE as loud as I could manage:
G-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-H…..
The convicts hired to hustle you over the phone are wearing headphones.
So when you SCREAM into the phone at the top of your voice, that actually hurts the bastards’ ears. And interestingly, the SHRIEK-a-thon technique has cut the number of pestering nuisance calls. Quite a lot: I’d say by about 80 percent.
Telephone soliciting should be against the law.
But that would put a dent in our “freedom of speech,” right? Free to bug you and me….
Seriously, though: if you blast each ba*tard who calls with the loudest noise you can muster, that DOES bite into the flood of phone solicitations. An air horn would do the job, if screaming is not your preference.
Many of the jerks calling you in the early hours of the day (and all the rest of the hours…) are calling from inside prisons.
Yes. Phone soliciting is a prison enterprise. Check it out: just google phone soliciting prison industry, and you learn all about a gigantic scam tailored for convicted scammers and other criminals.
Hey…you’ve got a crew of crooks. Why not put ’em to work doing what they do best?