"Ophelia" > wrote in message
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> I agree about charities. We used to donate regularly and a few years ago
> we came into a nice amount of money and gave one charity a good donation.
> We learned later about the salaries the top bods were taking!! Never
> again. It makes me angry too that all those people are volunteering in
> those charities. Once they have your name and address, they constantly
> send begging letters. Now they go in the bin!

I got a phone call two days ago from a cackling, older sounding woman who
asked me if I was Michael? Well... Way to **** me off. I do not think I
sound like a male. She then went on to say that it didn't matter who I was,
she could still talk to me. She then went on to say that I was *really* hard
to get a hold of then laughed like she thought that was funny. Well that
****ed me off even further. One of my friends has been getting calls from
this woman. Neither of us work and we are home more often than not. So in
either case, not true but she didn't even know *who* I was! So an out and
out lie.

She went on to say something about her working for some breast cancer place.
I didn't quite catch the name but I knew it was bogus. So I snapped, "What
do you want?" Then she tried to tell me that they were the ones that sent
out post cards and I'd be getting one in the mail. I told her not to bother.
I didn't want it. I wanted to tell her that my dad worked for the REAL
breast cancer charity. That part was true. Obviously he no longer does as he
is no longer with us. But after his mom got breast cancer, he went out door
to door handing out pink ribbons. I gather they no longer do that. Anyway...

Today I get a phone call from a female who was very abrupt. Asked for
Michael. I thought it was someone he worked with as military people often
sound like that. But... He has a cell phone and gives that out as his home
number. Nobody ever calls the house asking for him unless it is some old
friend who doesn't have his cell phone number or some such thing. So I just
said he wasn't here and didn't offer to take a message.

Then she launched into almost the same spiel, telling me that it didn't
matter. She could talk to me and mentioned the bogus breast cancer thing. I
snapped at her and said that I didn't want to talk to her and Michael didn't
want to talk to her so she had better not call us again.

I don't care what people are selling or who they are collecting money for. I
don't deal with people like that who call me, come to my door or send me
stuff in the snail or e-mails. Exception being some of the animal charities
I have donated to in the past. I do donate to them once in a while if I can.
One has an account set up through Amazon and I can donate things like cat
litter, pet food, paper towels, cleaning supplies, etc. They keep a wish
list there.