i'm loving the new cell phone, our old land-line we didn't have any features installed and we had an answering machine which we used to screen a lot of the calls, most telemarketers wouldn't even leave a message. yay! saves me time answering the phone and hanging up on them.
now when someone calls, there's no answering message at all, on top of that if i do have the phone near me i can answer it and if it clicks over to someone else or i don't know who it is and they don't say so right away. well, i don't play games with them, i don't talk to them (that's a bad idea), i just hang up on them and block them.
the reason not to talk to them is that they may be recording and if they are unscrupulous they can take that recording and turn it into you saying something other than what you said.
do not say Yes, do not say anything else if you can help it. "Hello" and "Who is this?" is all they get from me.
we are on the do not call list, but for some reason the telemarketers don't use it.
the past few days i've been getting calls from "Restricted" which i don't know who that is, but i finally was able to answer it and find out it was a political poll of some fake kind and so i hung up on them just like anyone else i don't want to talk to. they're already blocked.
by now i have most of our regular friends and family numbers in there so when they call i know who it is. that is nice. sometimes i don't really want to talk to a particular person so i won't answer. this is to avoid me being rude to them when i'm tired or otherwise frustrated, i've found out through the years that it is better for me to not talk to them at certain times. except now i have another person getting into that zone with me and i hate it, but i also really just don't always want to talk and i also don't want to even explain that i don't want to talk. just because someone calls doesn't mean either of want to answer. i accept that in return too. if someone doesn't want to talk when i call them that's ok too. i certainly understand.
