"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 10:11:46 -0500, jmcquown >
> wrote:
>
>> I'm not saying it never happens. I'm just saying in all these years
>> I've never had a telemarketer call me and say we see you bought this,
>> maybe you'd like this, too? <shrugs>
>
> When did you *ever* get a telemarketing call for weight loss? When I
> had a land line, I mainly got home repair type calls. Sure, I had one
> once for the ubiquitous vitamin pills everyone here talked about at
> the time... but I was in a silly mood that day and I don't think the
> person on the other end of the line liked his job - so we joked and
> BSed for a few minutes and that was that. I think he took me off the
> call list because I never got one of those calls again.

Years ago the main call I got was for the MCI phone company. Are they even
around any more? Every night at dinner time. Two or three calls. This was
before we had the Do Not Call list. I began screaming and acting totally
crazy. This after I told them repeatedly to stop calling me. They were a
horrible phone company. My boss made the mistake of getting them where I
worked. The power would go out and we'd lose our phones. Or we'd just lose
our phones randomly.