Things I Hate #14 - Telephone People

I'm just going to lump all these in to one, otherwise I will be writing about things I hate for the rest of my life. Telephone people, both real and fake. I would like to direct everyone to my friend's blog for an idea of one type of telephone person I hate. The people who call you on weekends and weeknights during dinner time asking for a moment of your time to answer a few questions or to try and get you to buy something or do something. (If you also scroll down on that blog, you can see some beautiful PAINT pictures...)

My mom recently had a call where a man tried to convince her that she needed to renew her warranty on two of her cars. Funny thing, they already have warranties - all the 10000 cars my parents have. So she asked him which ones and he wouldn't tell her. He got heated and angry and repeated again that she needed to renew them. WHICH THEMS?!? Mom yelled. Then told him they weren't interested and hung up. Why the harrassment? Why couldn't he have just told her which cars? I smell a scammer, and a stupid angry one at that.

I also hate the fake telephone people. Those call menus that you get now when you try to call customer service. Those ones where you have to talk into the phone, it's never press a number anymore. It is always say your name. And then the fake person replies "Did you say Timba Green?" NO YOU STUPID IDIOT! "Did you say one? If that is correct say yes. Did you say fez? I did not understand you. Did you say done? I did not understand you." Why can't we talk to real people anymore? I end up just pressing 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 until someone finally answers the phone, annoyed that they might actually have to do some work.

So anyway, I hate telephone people. And telephone questionaires and public telephones because they are dirty.