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2009 Aug 27 anthy


Guy Blade Guy Blade---03:59:00


A direct line to hate
I've had a standard land telephone line since I moved out here over two years ago, as it was necessary to get DSL. I have not, however, bothered to install a telephone since I didn't really want people trying to call it. As such, I've had an active phone line that never would ring through to a real person. With my gaining of a Google Voice number, it became reasonable to have it as an extra ringing line in my bedroom so that I might be awoken by it (cell service is spotty in my bedroom). Since then, I've gotten about a dozen phone calls. Those that I can remember:

- Trying to sell me a newspaper subscription
- Trying to get me to donate to some random cause
- Robocall about car warranties
- Robocall about home mortgages
- Trying to get me to support some bus thing
- A wrong number
- Robocall with no explanation, just a number given and instructions to call it
- Trying to upsell my Charter service

Initially, I was somewhat polite to the people that called. Now, only 3 days later, I have started cutting people off mid-sentence with the phrase "Hold on one second, I don't care" about 30 seconds into their explanation. I then demand (1) to know how they got the number since I've never given it to anyone, ever and (2) to be put on their "Do not call" list. I'm especially irritated about the Charter one because their telephone system correctly recognizes my cell phone number as the one associated with my account, yet they still answered that the landline number was the one on my account when asked. This is, at best, a blatant lie.

I don't understand why this doesn't happen to my cell phone, but I'm beginning to regret attaching a phone to the line. If this continues, I may just disconnect the line again. It is quickly approaching the territory in which I ask myself "Is this really helping?".

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