The Do Not Call list is wonderful! It only takes a minute to put your number on it. Do remember, people you have done business with, political calls, and charitable organizations do not have to honor the list. Anyone else, threaten to report them, that should put an end to that.

This is sooo funny...welcome to MY World! I get my sanity back by going to my sewing room...leave me alone time! To the telemarketers and door knockers...this is MY Life and I will not let you control it....ring and knock away. I only answer it I know who it is.

I really feel sorry for people in the position of Sandybeach but I have a problem of different kind .
Dog owners will not want to hear this but I am ready to get a divorce because of 2 untrained dogs. Their barking controls my lifestyle more than any phone calls. Cannot have company to visit , be on phone or out in yard that they don't bark. Kind of duplex house with his relatives -- have to help them financially.
We take friends on boat to entertain which is limiting.We go to Fl for winter so get a break or when they go away.
Trying to think why I get so aggravated but I own one third of the house .They got dogs then told us-- so what could we do. There is no signed contract to renigociate
and they are brothers --been told.
They just don't get how much it bothers us. I've had dogs-hubby has cat.
Hope I don't regret writing/sharing but this is second marriage so I'm the outcast. Seems can share more here than going to therapist. Actually like the location and other facets of the lifestyle.

Know how you feel. Happens to me all the time and I have a hard time getting out of my recliner. We have politicians calling now and some one calling about credit cards.
They will drive us to drink(soda pop).

This thread is the best medicine I have had for stress in a long time. I am laughing all my stress away. What is so funny is that I can relate to most everything.

in the shower or worse just waking up-who calls at 8.30 am??

I let the phone ring unless I know who it is and even then sometimes let it go to voice mail!

I loved that, about fell off my chair. Some folks are so clever!

sounds just like me. were you here when that happend. except the knock at the door is the wind blowing the screen door. and the dogs to sit on the end of the recliner with me.

It's for those calls I kep my emergency whistle handy. Blow it once or twice and they hang up and don't generally call back.

Our telephone announces who is calling. I rarely even move when it starts ringing anymore unless it says it's my husband or one of the kids. Any other calls are usually telemarketers and I don't want to talk to them. If I do get a call from someone important, I can always call back.

But I did have to laugh a little with your story with what happened to me. The other day at work things were so crazy I just couldn't get away to use the bathroom all afternoon. Drove home after work (luckily it's only 2 blocks from home) and first thing I did was take the dogs out to the bathroom. By the time they were done and I got them back in the house I really was rushing to get to the bathroom and undo my pants, just about to sit down and the stinking doorbell rings. No way was I going to stop at that point and the stupid idiot kept ringing and ringing the doorbell. It finally stopped, but by the time I got to the door whoever it was was long gone. It was a salesman for the local phone company and came back 20 minutes later and said that he'd seen me pull in so he knew I was home and why didn't I answer the door the first time. The nerve of some people!!!

I can relate, but you forgot to mention as you run to get the phone you trip over the dogs and when you go to open the door with the phone at your ear all the dogs shove you out of the way to see who's at the door and wont stop barking :shock:

i keep getting the same tela marketer calling my cell which is on the do not call list.. so the other day I picked up the call and started talking gerbish in an angry tone they havent called back since

Love it!!!!!

I always check the Caller ID and if it is anything beginning with an "8" I do not answer....too many times someone asking for a donation...taking a survey, but actually trying to sell me something...etc. If they can't leave a message, they don't need to talk to me.
Michelle

You need to get on the 'do not call' list...

https://www.donotcall.gov/]https://www.donotcall.gov/[/url]

You won't be sorry after you put yourself on the list!

Yup - some days are like that...

Hmm just let the phone ring. If they really need you they can leave a message and you can call back in your own time. If they left no message they did not need to talk to you in the first place.

Don't open the front door. Who knows who is out there. I'd rather be quilting or snuggling with my children or pets any ways. LOL
;) :wink:

LOL You do not like calls from hawaii either (808 area code)?

Well, nobody from Hawaii calls me...but your are right...I probably would not answer...
Michelle

My husband speaks 17 languages...one of them is Japanese. We had a problem with a certain company and everytime he saw their number he would answer in a different language! I was ROLLING ON THE FLOOR! We had SO MUCH FUN with that. I mean, one day it was German, Japanese, Vietnamese, Puerto Rican... on and on....they did finally stop calling. BTW, I am on the do not call list and it seems to mean nothing. Now that he is in Afghanistan....I just don't answer...but it sure was fun. He will be home on R&R ON THE 12TH!!! so the fun will begin again....:).... you won't be seeing me on the board for 3 weeks, can't wait!
Michelle

Yes we can all agree to that one. Toxic workplace is a good way to describe it some days.

I found myself in a similar situation two years ago.
Jumped up to answer the phone, and broke both legs.
Yep you read it right.
Now I have one leg full of plates and screws, spent a week in hospital and 8 weeks in a wheel chair at rehab.
Now I dont care if the phone rings out, I will not rush to get to it.

So funny!!! Will show DH later! Good idea when we get called again! Have caller ID And the calling number shows up on the TV. So this helps.

DH has answered and told them to hang on, put phone down and just left them there. Came back few minutes later and they were gone.