Midlife’s A Trip

What Fresh Hell is This Award — Telemarketers

Posted on 16. Sep, 2008 by Karen in Resources

Author Dorothy Parker, celebrated as the wittiest woman in America,  was known to get very peturbed when someone calling on the telephone would interrupt her as she sat writing.  Urban legend has it that her favorite retort to unwanted callers was:

What fresh hell is this?

Well lately I seem to be getting more than my fair share of unwanted call from telemarketers.  Luckily my caller ID alerts me to the easily identifiable telemarketer numbers.  But they are still an annoying interruption to just about anything I might be doing.  So why are telemarketers still calling me.

I can’t figure it out.  I could have sworn I registered my phone number on the Do Not Call List .  Lately it seems I must have registered on the “call me all the time” list.  So on the outside chance that my midlife brain got this wrong, I went back and registered — again — on the “don’t call me anymore or this time I’ll file a complaint on you” list. 

Apparently it will take a month or so for my request to take effect.  In the meantime, if you didn’t register way back when and you’re being bothered by telemarketers on your home phone, cell phone or email, register now.  It takes less than a minute to fill out the form and submit it.  Then you have to click on the email links the government sends you to make it official.  Then the telemarketers leave you alone like you have the plague — or so that’s how it’s supposed to go.

I’ll keep you posted.

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