# Quit calling me, Cingular!!!!!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quit-calling-me-cingular/270037>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [October 19, 2004, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quit-calling-me-cingular/270037 "2004-10-19T14:55:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2004, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quit-calling-me-cingular/270037/1 "2004-10-19T14:55:27Z")

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YES, I OWE YOU MORE MONEY THAN I PAID YOU THIS MONTH. I DON’T NEED DAILY PHONE CALLS TO REMIND ME.

My cell phone bill went (relatively) sky-high this last month, due among other things to having to evacuate from Ivan. Fucking hurricane. I didn’t realize quite how bad until I went to pay my bill and found that they wanted about $150 instead of the usual $40ish. I paid $40, because that’s ALL I FUCKING COULD. What with the evacuation, I am damn broke this month. But I did pay SOMETHING.

Now, if you people would just put a fucking HUMAN on the line I would TELL you that you will get the rest of your damn money next month, when I HAVE IT. I’m SORRY. I had to RUN FOR MY DAMN LIFE. Yeah, the storm missed, but it might not have.

LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE, I WILL PAY YOU ON THE THIRD. HONEST. SWEAR TO OG, I WILL.

Fuck. I’m not a lowlife who is running from a bill. I pay my damn bills. I’ve been paying you people for fucking years. You’re just gonna have to wait a couple of weeks for the rest.

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**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2004, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quit-calling-me-cingular/270037/2 "2004-10-19T15:06:23Z")

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Hey, at least they’re not calling you Shirley.

Ba-da-bump!

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**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quit-calling-me-cingular/270037/3 "2004-10-20T20:40:38Z")

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So, you’re mad at a company for trying to collect on money that you owe them?

The nerve of them!

:rolleyes:

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**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quit-calling-me-cingular/270037/4 "2004-10-20T20:49:10Z")

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Maybe you did this but it is _your_ responsibility to tell them why you underpaid. You could have put a note of explanation in with your check or called the customer care number to complain. You also could have called customer care (just dial 611 from your cell, I think) after the first recorded message.

Haj

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**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quit-calling-me-cingular/270037/5 "2004-10-21T15:47:53Z")

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Look, I was just frustrated, 'kay? And I’d talk to a human, IF they’d put a damn human on the line, but every call I get from them is from a computer. Screw that. (I HAAATE autodialers.)

I owe them. I know it. I paid them some. I will pay them the rest as soon as I can. They are annoying me. That’s all.