HAMER524@ruby.vcu.edu (Robert M. Hamer) (10/24/90)
PAT (our esteemed Moderator) about telemarketers: >one on the phone and have to say no ... so frigthened by telemarketers >are they that they go to such extremes: published lines where are >never answered; non-pub lines which route through an answering machine >for screening first, etc. Do like Nancy: Just say no (and hang up). PAT] Hey, I'm not afraid to say no. In fact, I can get quite nasty -- I ask the caller for a supervisor and then ask the supervisor if I can have his/her phone number so I can call him/her at home to bother him/her. I use my answering machine to screen so I don't have to interrupt dinner to answer a telemarketer or wrong number, or get up from the living room to go to the foyer to answer. (Pat -- I may be a sort of telecom freak, but I only have five phones on the main line, and don't have one just under my hand while I sit in the living room.)