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I hate getting asked for my phone number at check out. I just want my shit, I don't want to talk to them about it.

 

I feel for you, buddy. Our boy's doing great in NOLA.

 

Good. Be sure both of you think of me sitting in the tower with Lambda Lambda Lambda...

 

Dish Network called me 3-4 times a week. I begged them to stop. My wife put us on the Do Not Call list. Everything stopped for a while. Now they're starting again. Does the list expire? Do you have to renew it?
The worst one I get now is some asshole selling windows.
Riiiiinnnnng ...
Me: Hello?
Him: Good morning, are you interested in saving the environment?
Me: Uh, what?
Him: Are you interested in saving the environment? We have environment-saving windows and we're going to be in your neighborhood on Wednesday.
Me: It's not even 8 o'clock. It's too early for calls like this.
Him: It's never too early to save the environment.
Me: Fuck you.
Hang up.

 

This is why the ringer on our land line is turned off.

If it's important, people leave a message.

And our friends know to call the cell phone.

 

What about Omega Mu?

 

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When they start the pitch, ask for the salesman's name and company. Then ask for his company's telephone number.
Then tell him, he just cost his company 10K so they might as well give you the windows free because it's going to cxost more than that because he's just been busted...

 

I've always been tempted, if the cashier is a good-looking woman, to say that I'll only give my number if she would go out on a date with me, but I don't want to risk hitting on a 16-year-old.

Usually though, I just refuse to give it out.

 

Next time you get a call from the Sheriff's Benevolent Society or something similar, the first question you should ask is "How much of my donation actually goes to the beneficiaries, and not toward 'administrative' costs? Because if the answer's not '100 percent' there's no use continuing this call."

Most of the time they'll hang up.

 

A local politician in the town my parents live in got caught up in a scandal when the organization he worked for/with/owned (can't remember which) was soliciting for the Police Benevolent Association and only something like 8% of the money actually went to the PBA.

Where I live, there was a big scam ring pretending to solicit for the fire and/or police depts. (especially right after 9/11). Lots of people got taken in.

 

If it wasn't for DSL, I wouldn't have a land line at all. As it is, I turn off all my ringers anyway. Those in the know can call my celly.