The !#@$*^% Cops woke me up this morning.

The bastards. I was having a heavenly dream about something or other that I can no longer place but they had to call. The telemarketer identifies himself as a police officer (Detective Something or Other) and calls me by the diminutive of my name (it isn’t common), throwing me off guard. They wanted me to donate money for some charity thing that would help find missing children.

I thought to myself, hey this is a decent cause since I was just out of my slumber. If I had been more awake I would have likely So I listened to the speech for a few minutes. I prudently never buy anything from phone solicitors. I have absolutely no trust in them.

So I said, “I don’t ever buy anything over the phone. Please send me a brochure that tells about the charity.”

He said, “So you want to be put down for a $50 commitment?”

I say, “No, I don’t make any fiscal commitments over the phone. Send me a brochure that tells about the charity and I will read it over and then make a commitment.” I am sure that he didn’t know that one of my good friends is on the city council and knows all of the police. I would have thoroughly checked it out through him before making a commitment and possibly make it a prosecutable offense if it were fake with proof of such.

He said, “So that is a $50 commitment?”

Damn this dimwitted fuckbulb was fucking pushy. I tell him, “No, send me a brochure that describes your charity so I can have it in writing before making a commitment.”

After going back and forth with this for a while he finally tells me that the company (it changed from police officers something or other to company) only sends out the stickers to those that make a commitment.

ARRGGHHH!!! “I told him I don’t want a sticker. I want a brochure describing the charity itself.”

He said, “So you want to make a $50 commitment.”

Not back to that again, moron such as he is doesn’t seem to be able to understand the spoken language. For some reason I stayed on the line, I guess that means the moron was me as well. I asked if he had a brochure that described the charity.

Suddenly he became defensive. He said, “We do, but we only send them out if one makes a commitment.”

I ask him, “ok then, so you are trying to scam me. I can’t trust anyone who won’t send me literature about their organization so I can check them out.”

He tried to protest but it was too late. I had finally hung up. Bastards who destroy my sleep make me very unhappy. Fucktards who destroy my sleep while trying to scam money out of me push me to the verge of homicide. I guess that would have kept the “detective” in business.

If I ever heard, “So, I can put you down for a $50 commitment” over the phone after I said nothing of the sort, then the next sound the telemarketer would hear would be ‘click.’ No matter how interested I might have been.

Amen.

Preach it, brother.

The Chicago NBC affiliate had an expose this past Thursday night about some organizations that collect money for various police and fire charities. Some employed - or were even owned by - convicted felons (illegal under IL law), and kept as much as 90% of the funds they collected. It made me glad that lately my husband hasn’t donated to any of them; I wouldn’t want the police not getting my money and an ex-con maybe deciding to commit fraud with our credit card number or something.

The pushy nature of that guy makes me suspicious, I have to say. Maybe he was just being a jerk, or maybe it was a scam.

Some idiot knocked on my door a few weeks ago, in a secure facility, secure so people like him can’t get in, except currently the front gate is broken beyond repair.

Anyway, he knocks on my door and the first thing he says is “Don’t worry! I’m not trying to sell you anything!”

And then proceeds to try and sell me something.

I don’t understand why they are asked to lie at their first line. How is that supposed to make me trust their company?

GuanoLad, that happened to me once. But it was someone w/ a church selling pancake breakfasts or something…

I looked up and said, “You’re the test subject right?”

“Test Subject?”

“For the new smallpox vaccine, we’re got the primate mortality rate down to 67%”

Apparently the department chair was looking for me later in the afternoon (I took a long lunch)

I hate telemarketers. I’m 15 and already I’ve had a few calls from insurance agencies and such,

“no, I do not want life insurance at this time. I can’t afford it.”
“We have plans that will meet everyones financial status! If you don’t mind me asking, how mch money do you make a week?”
"Allowance. I’m in grade 10. I don’t even have my sin number yet. "

Click.

Where the hell would they get my name from anyways?

sigh… people sure are fucked up sometimes.

(Oh, I got mysin number about 2 months ago, so ya never know, maybe I should look into that life insurance stuff!)

We’re supposed to get a number to sin?

Nobody told me that. I bet I’m breaking a rule.

My ageing mother in law got taken by the Illinois felons. Bastards! IF they ever call me, I’m going to commit to the $50 and get an address and track them down like the dogs they are.

I have no idea why I stayed on the phone so long. The telemarketer caught me when I was asleep and very groggy.