PHOTO PROMPT © IT’S MY CELLPHONE AND I’LL CALL IF I WANT TO
(To the tune of Lesley Gore’s It’s My Party)
It’s Chinese water torture! Drip! Drip! Drip! Like being nibbled to death by ducks.
Once, my telephone line was for MY use – to make calls to my friends, and to receive from them. Now, strangers on other continents want to tie it up for their monetary reasons.
If an election were held tomorrow, how would you vote?
We are a reliable company who would like to clean your ducts.
You owe the IRS $1500, payable in iTunes gift cards.
I think every scammer should have to pay 50¢ on my phone bill before they call me. I got their number.
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Archon's Den 
I hardly ever answer the phone anymore. I’ve said all I have to say to Rachel from card holder services.
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I get those too. It slays me that they claim they are from Visa/Mastercard, as if they are one and the same, or that they would have anything to do with each other. P T Barnum said There’s one born every minute. Donald Trump has raised the output to two. 😳
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Indeed. And many are robots planning on taking over the planet.
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Let’s have them call all the Christian Apologists, and they can irritate each other. I laughed recently at a woman blogger who asks if the voice on the phone is real, because her doctor told her not to listen to the imaginary voices. With caller ID, answering HELLO, You’re on the air. usually has them hanging up quick. 👿
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Great idea. 🙂
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I like the suggestion in the last paragraph.
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I feel it’s only fair. 😀
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Yea, those Scammers, they get upset when I ask if any rebates are available or how’s your mother I haven’t seen her for a while. Perhaps I have too much time to waste.
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If they waste your time and services, you should be able to waste theirs. I LOVE the, “How’s yer Mum line. After the BOOP, and the second of silence, I’m thinking of screaming, Thank God! My wife’s fallen in the bathroom and broke her leg, and bashed her head! There’s blood everywhere! Quick, send the ambulance to…. 👿
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I love it when they get angry. I ask if that is part of their professional training…
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You mean they aren’t closing down your Social Security account or canceling your driver’s license?
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No time soon. I wish that one of the perks of being poor is that con artists wouldn’t target us, but from 5000 or 10,000 miles away these scammers don’t know that. One of them could clean me out, i could declare bankruptcy, and still be $10 ahead. 😉 🙂
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Very clever story and now I have that song bouncing around me head! 🙂
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At least it’s not a Justin Bieber tune. Now his face is frozen. Way to go Biebs! Keep it up. 😯 😳
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Yes. It’s a very unfortunate development. Sometimes I long for the good old days when there were only landlines (just one phone per house) and our control of them was absolute. Your title makes me think of that.
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Good! That’s what I had in mind. 🙂
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Something we all have to suffer. I always ask them to hold on for a moment, then I put the phone down and leave them dangling!
Here’s mine!
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Amen to that. Not only calls, but texts, emails, and never ending piles of spam that wiggle their way into my non-spam folder.
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And people are surprised – shocked – that I refuse to own a cellphone. 🙂
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