I'm driving home from work a few weeks ago listening to my local sportstalk station. On comes a commercial advertising "4 winners tonight absolutely free on a recorded message." So....knowing better, but being bored & stuck in traffic, I call the 800 number.
After sitting through about 3 minutes worth of promotions for other numbers to call they finally give one game on the message.
Then the "fun" began !!
I keep my cellphone in my car....as in I don't carry it with me....and I therefore rarely get calls on it. Well THAT was about to change !! Every day for the next few days I noticed three to five "missed call - caller unknown" messages on the screen.
Then on a Saturday I was on the phone with my daughter, who I was on my way to visit, when a call waiting call came in. I asked my daughter to hang on. Those of you with daughters (as opposed to sons) realize that I had very little time to deal with the incoming call.
A loud voice comes on and says "MIKE" as if he has known me for years. I say "uhhh...and this is who?" And he says "IT'S YOUR BUDDY JOHN." ....uhhh who?? "YEAH....YOU CALLED OUR 800 NUMBER. YOU NEED OUR SERVICE, RIGHT??" Oh that.......no I was just calling becau "YOU WANT TO PLAY WINNERS RIGHT??" I say..."actually I was just talking to my daughter and you interrupted....and tell the truth I was just calling out of curiosity...and really didn't want some fast talking salesman calling me." He says "WELL YOU'RE A F*CKING ASSHOLE" at which point it became a pissing contest until I realized my daughter is on hold....so I told him to call back in 20 minutes. What the hell.....I had a two hour drive ahead of me and he was entertaining.
10 minutes later (finished speaking with my daughter by then) a different guy from the same place calls. This one is more polite. I told him about the first guy and he apologizes for his behavior....then proceeds to give me a pitch. I said several times that I would absolutely never use the service and he would better spend his time calling someone else, but he kept on pitching.
Long story short, I finally get him off the phone....but he left over a dozen voice mail messages over the next couple of weeks. I felt stalked !!! Finally I called him back and asked him which monitoring services he was registered with. He said none. I said that in that case we can never do business (not that I hadn't already told him that).
He proceeds to go into a tirade about monitoring services....insultingly tells me how little I know about them (actually he was right as far as that goes....I know nothing about monitoring services.....I was just hoping to use the mention of them to make him stop calling)....and insists he is "just trying to help me."
I finally said "please just stop calling." That didn't even make him blink. After a few attempts to ask him nicely to stop calling, none of which were acknowledged, I said in a loud voice "WOULD YOU PLEASE HAVE SOME MOTHERF-ING RESPECT!!??!!" He must have heard that because he said don't curse me, I'm not cursing you....and then he went back into his pitch....at which point I hung up on him.
I haven't heard from him since.....it's been about five days.....I'm starting to miss the little guy (haha).
Anyway......no real point to the story....just a story....maybe one question if anybody knows the answer and that is:
What is UP with these guys ????
After sitting through about 3 minutes worth of promotions for other numbers to call they finally give one game on the message.
Then the "fun" began !!
I keep my cellphone in my car....as in I don't carry it with me....and I therefore rarely get calls on it. Well THAT was about to change !! Every day for the next few days I noticed three to five "missed call - caller unknown" messages on the screen.
Then on a Saturday I was on the phone with my daughter, who I was on my way to visit, when a call waiting call came in. I asked my daughter to hang on. Those of you with daughters (as opposed to sons) realize that I had very little time to deal with the incoming call.
A loud voice comes on and says "MIKE" as if he has known me for years. I say "uhhh...and this is who?" And he says "IT'S YOUR BUDDY JOHN." ....uhhh who?? "YEAH....YOU CALLED OUR 800 NUMBER. YOU NEED OUR SERVICE, RIGHT??" Oh that.......no I was just calling becau "YOU WANT TO PLAY WINNERS RIGHT??" I say..."actually I was just talking to my daughter and you interrupted....and tell the truth I was just calling out of curiosity...and really didn't want some fast talking salesman calling me." He says "WELL YOU'RE A F*CKING ASSHOLE" at which point it became a pissing contest until I realized my daughter is on hold....so I told him to call back in 20 minutes. What the hell.....I had a two hour drive ahead of me and he was entertaining.
10 minutes later (finished speaking with my daughter by then) a different guy from the same place calls. This one is more polite. I told him about the first guy and he apologizes for his behavior....then proceeds to give me a pitch. I said several times that I would absolutely never use the service and he would better spend his time calling someone else, but he kept on pitching.
Long story short, I finally get him off the phone....but he left over a dozen voice mail messages over the next couple of weeks. I felt stalked !!! Finally I called him back and asked him which monitoring services he was registered with. He said none. I said that in that case we can never do business (not that I hadn't already told him that).
He proceeds to go into a tirade about monitoring services....insultingly tells me how little I know about them (actually he was right as far as that goes....I know nothing about monitoring services.....I was just hoping to use the mention of them to make him stop calling)....and insists he is "just trying to help me."
I finally said "please just stop calling." That didn't even make him blink. After a few attempts to ask him nicely to stop calling, none of which were acknowledged, I said in a loud voice "WOULD YOU PLEASE HAVE SOME MOTHERF-ING RESPECT!!??!!" He must have heard that because he said don't curse me, I'm not cursing you....and then he went back into his pitch....at which point I hung up on him.
I haven't heard from him since.....it's been about five days.....I'm starting to miss the little guy (haha).
Anyway......no real point to the story....just a story....maybe one question if anybody knows the answer and that is:
What is UP with these guys ????