Friday, June 30, 2017

Who Ya Gonna Call? EAR Busters!

I'm pretty sure I am single-handedly perpetuating  telephone scam opportunists. Not purposely, of course. I don't answer just so I can have fun and SCREAM into the phone, "THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH MY COMPUTER!" when those heavily-accented folks call to warn me about a problem with my Windows Computer.

No, I answer because I don't know the number, and I have two sons a couple hundred miles away at college. Just in case. I wouldn't want to be call-screening if there was an emergency.

Tuesday, somebody called to offer me a payment plan for my student loans. Well, I'll be ding-dang-donged! Ain't they just the nicest folks! Wanting to help me lower my debt, and they don't even know me. Out of the goodness of their hearts, I assume. It takes a village and several foreign countries to help Mrs. Hillbilly Mom pay her bills, I guess.

That selfless angel scratchy recording of an accented voice was so nice such a waste of my time that I didn't have the heart see the point of mentioning that I have never had any student loans. So I hung up halfway (or less) through the spiel.

Wednesday, an actual person called to offer the #1 Son help on paying down HIS student loans.

"He's not here. What? He has NEVER HAD A STUDENT LOAN, SO YOU CAN CALL SOMEBODY ELSE AND WASTE THEIR TIME!"

I know. It's counter-productive, really. Since now they know it's a working phone number. But I HAD to answer. And it felt pretty good to give them that little bit of information.


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3 comments:

  1. Sioux RoslawskiJune 30, 2017 at 6:58 PM

    OR you could have put them on speaker phone (so you could get something else done while talking) and you could have kept them on the line for a while, before revealing that your son doesn't have a student loan.

    That way, you wasted their time for a while...

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  2. AnonymousJuly 1, 2017 at 11:40 AM

    You could tell them you're interested & could they please hold on while you hang up the other line & then go out & get a 44 ounce Diet Coke!!

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  3. Hillbilly MomJuly 1, 2017 at 5:56 PM

    Sioux,
    How in the Not-Heaven am I going to figure out how to use SPEAKER PHONE without The Pony here to explain it? If only I was as adept at technology as YOU, Madam, I could have forwarded that call to you. Unless you were busy sitting on other people's chihuahuas.

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    fishducky,
    THAT I could do! But first, I would put the TV on one of Farmer H's car restoration shows for them to listen to while I was gone.

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