Message #29025

[marcie175]

You know what I LOVE to do???  Answer the phone like you are the housekeeper who speaks a different language.  I did this once at my parent's house in spanish and had the guy on the phone all frazzled.  He was cussing and everything because he was so upset with me and he didn't think I knew his words.  I have never in my life laughed so hard.

The best part is that I know very little spanish, so I kept repeating the same things over and over again - no hablo ingles.  (I know I didn't spell that right - sorry!)

Another solution on your regular phone to look in to is a thing called privacy manager.  My parents have it on their phone (provider is Ameritech).  When an unrecognized number makes a call to their house, an automated system catches it before it rings to their house.  The caller is instructed that the person they are calling has privacy manager and if the caller wishes the call to go through, he or she must give his/her name.  95% of the time, the telemarketers won't give their names, so the call is never put through to my parent's house.  You would not believe the difference in the number of times that phone rings!  Oh yeah - and even if the caller gives his name, my parents still have a right not to accept the call.  Pretty snazzy.  I don't know if such a thing is possible on a cell phone or not.

Marcie