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
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.
3 comments:
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...
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!!
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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