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Old 11-25-2013, 11:29 AM   #23233
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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe View Post
I am so very tired of getting phone calls from sales people. Today I changed the message on our answering machine. It now says, "Hello," (here I inserted a full ten second pause), "You've reached [our phone #]; please leave your name and number after the beep."

Friends and family will quickly figure it out. Hopefully my enemies (the telemarketers) are going to be royally ticked-off as they find the second part the message coming right in the middle of their unwelcome, unwanted, and disrupted sales pitch.
We have found a great way to get rid of them. After the fire we noticed that they don't get pushy when you tell them you just had a fire and you neither have the time nor the mood for them. After almost half a year we still tell them we just had a fire.
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