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Title: Does this make me paranoid???
Post by: bkg on November 24, 2009, 05:43:35 PM
Get a random phone call.

"Hi. This is xxxxxx. I'm a reporter with Channel 5 news...."

My first thought was "Oh shit... I wonder what hell I did.... "  :rotf: :rotf:
Title: Re: Does this make me paranoid???
Post by: Lord Undies on November 24, 2009, 05:53:27 PM
Maybe a little. 

I'm sane, so my first reaction would have beeen, "What the hell do YOU want?"

 :p
Title: Re: Does this make me paranoid???
Post by: thundley4 on November 24, 2009, 06:14:03 PM
Get a random phone call.

"Hi. This is xxxxxx. I'm a reporter with Channel 5 news...."

My first thought was "Oh shit... I wonder what hell I did.... "  :rotf: :rotf:

Did they want to know how it felt to win the lottery?  :popcorn:
Title: Re: Does this make me paranoid???
Post by: Hawkgirl on November 24, 2009, 06:31:45 PM
My standard answer..."No, I'm not interested."  hangup.
Title: Re: Does this make me paranoid???
Post by: Lord Undies on November 24, 2009, 06:33:52 PM
My standard answer..."No, I'm not interested."  hangup.

"Channel what?  Is that a television company?  I don't own a television machine."  :click:
Title: Re: Does this make me paranoid???
Post by: Tucker on November 24, 2009, 07:13:21 PM
Is it paranoia if they really are out to get you.  :uhsure:
Title: Re: Does this make me paranoid???
Post by: LC EFA on November 25, 2009, 07:02:31 PM
I usually answer my phone with a gag line (presently "Kahleeds Camel Repair"). If the caller tells me to go get stuffed - I know it's a friend. 

Most telemarketers and assorted other telespammers clearly decide it's going to be one of "those" calls so disconnect at that point as I get a lot more disconnections than I get told to get stuffed.

 
Title: Re: Does this make me paranoid???
Post by: Hawkgirl on November 25, 2009, 07:37:52 PM
I usually answer my phone with a gag line (presently "Kahleeds Camel Repair"). If the caller tells me to go get stuffed - I know it's a friend. 

Most telemarketers and assorted other telespammers clearly decide it's going to be one of "those" calls so disconnect at that point as I get a lot more disconnections than I get told to get stuffed.

 

I sometimes say "Domino's pizza, may I take your order?"  If it's a friend or family, they start their order...if not...I get a pause and then a "click".
Title: Re: Does this make me paranoid???
Post by: SilverOrchid on November 25, 2009, 07:50:26 PM
I usually answer my phone with a gag line (presently "Kahleeds Camel Repair"). If the caller tells me to go get stuffed - I know it's a friend. 

Most telemarketers and assorted other telespammers clearly decide it's going to be one of "those" calls so disconnect at that point as I get a lot more disconnections than I get told to get stuffed.

 

Sometimes I say "Thank you for choosing AT&T". Even more fun (since I live in CA) is answering "hola?'

Title: Re: Does this make me paranoid???
Post by: DefiantSix on November 26, 2009, 04:57:07 PM
I usually answer my phone with a gag line (presently "Kahleeds Camel Repair"). If the caller tells me to go get stuffed - I know it's a friend. 

Most telemarketers and assorted other telespammers clearly decide it's going to be one of "those" calls so disconnect at that point as I get a lot more disconnections than I get told to get stuffed.

I sometimes say "Domino's pizza, may I take your order?"  If it's a friend or family, they start their order...if not...I get a pause and then a "click".

Sometimes I say "Thank you for choosing AT&T". Even more fun (since I live in CA) is answering "hola?'

Usually I answer with "Mort's Mortuary; you stab 'em, we slab 'em.  Would you like to hear about our group rates? " Or, occasionally, a simple "Yes, Commissioner?", in my very best Adam West impersonation.
Title: Re: Does this make me paranoid???
Post by: NHSparky on November 26, 2009, 05:21:57 PM
Once I answered the phone with, "NORAD Missile Launch Command, understand launch is a GO!"

Dad wasn't too happy about that one.