Ha- you're a trip, mama! My own real mama suffers from mental illness (though she's not quite at the Norman Bates level!) so I could reach back in my memory and pull some of her stunts on these damned telemarketers! You offer some fantastic quirky ideas that I just might just need to try out! Brook, you too! Cathy, maybe I'll have you all over for supper some night and we can just sit around afterwards waiting for the phone to ring and take turns answering it? What a hoot that'd be, huh? We'll make it pot-luck, and I'll supply the telephone! Hee-Hee! (once we're unleashed, those baztards ain't even gonna see what hits'em!)

I had a telemarketer call me - I told her off - her number showed up on my ID box - and I didn't think anything about it. I hung up on her - she called me back and hung up on me.

I went to infospace.com - reverse lookup - working out of her home -

got her name, and addy - called her several times - then she called me again - I called the company she was working for - got her fired

was it cruel?

SHE bothered me - I told her I was on the do not call lists - told her not to call me again and hung up

SHE called me back and hung up on me

she started it - I finished it

pizz me off - grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Good for you Mama ! I'm on the no call list too and it irritates me to no end when they call.

The ones that get me most are the ones who pretend you are on their customer list.

Let's see: Never heard of the company, never bought any of their products, but I'm a customer. Just a way to circumvent the no-call lists.

For them I reserve rather unladylike language.

Me too, Brook! Normally I'm fairly-well-behaved. But when riled, I can cuss buckets. And one of these days some poor unsuspecting telemarketer is gonna hear things that's turn'em ten shades of red!