<p>I have a similar response. “I don’t make any decisions over the phone. You’re welcome to send me the info in writing.” Somehow they never do.</p>
<p>I respond the same way as SBmom and mathmom. If they ask for my address, I tell them that if they were able to get my phone number, they should be resourceful enough to get my address. Then I tell them (nicely) to take me off their call list. That usually puts an end to it!</p>
<p>I had one actually tell me that I must have been a telemarketer at one point (I never was) because I had such a nice but firm way of saying no thank you!</p>
<p>I’ve never run into a family member’s car, but Mom60 and I can be friends. I backed into the garage door when I got in a bigger hurry than the garage door. I also ran into the garage door with the cartop carrier on top - yep, I forgot I’d been driving around with a carrier full of suitcases for a couple of weeks. And I’ve done that twice! I’m a slow learner. The repairman has done the best he could, but the door is definitely banged up.</p>
<p>MM: Are you getting calls from not-for-profits? They are exempt from the do-not-call lists, as are the pollers. I never give not-for-profits anything on the phone. I just tell them that if I decide to give I’ll do it on line. Then I hang up quick!</p>
<p>My friend accidentally drove through a car wash with her Christmas tree on top of her car. It actually came out not too bad!</p>
<p>weenie, that is hilarious</p>
<p>LOL weenie!</p>
<p>As for telemarketers, my late mom used to tell them we were in the middle of a funeral.That usually shut them right up. I always worried, when she passed away, that a telemarketer would call when people were over. That didn’t happen, but some a–hole realtor called a day or 2 after she died to see if we were selling the house. I was AMAZED that my dad was polite to them on the phone. I am not sure I would have extended the same courtesy.</p>
<p>I understand about the non-profits or political entities; these are companies selling stuff or banks with which I have not had any business in the past. That’s why it’s so puzzling.</p>
<p>I just say no thanks and ask to be placed on the “do not call” list. For what it’s worth. 
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<p>LOL – weenie! I’d love to hear the replay of her thought train that day…</p>
<p>Okay, dropped the dog off at the groomer, got the gawd#!! Christmas tree, now what’s next on my list? I’ve gotta get groceries before the kids show up tonight, but my car’s so damn filthy, I’ll just run through the car wash on the way home.*</p>
<p>Oh, man…how did she get past the guys who vacuum the car seats and steal the floor mats?</p>
<p>Hey, barflies – I’m on Page 16 in the January 29 issue of Newsweek under Politics. No, it’s not the article on Nobel Prize winners. :p</p>
<p>Here’s another idea to do with telemarketers:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9yWn8z017A[/url]”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9yWn8z017A</a></p>
<p>I’m crying with laughter!</p>
<p>mkm56 - HaHa…now I will be able to redeem myself with DD & DS when they see this telemarketer clip! (they caught me dancing this morning to the “Cute Application” clip with the Zombie music…:o )</p>
<p>Sluggbugg - Now I will have to rush out and find a Newsweek magazine!! :)</p>
<p>tom mabe…funny comedian who makes his living off of pranking telemarketers…</p>
<p>You’d have to know my friend to know how really funny the Christmas tree through the car wash story really is. </p>
<p>She’s one of these really frantic sorts - a workaholic who also does everything at home. (Husband is a psychiatrist - which is just perfect, isn’t it?) So, as I recall, she picked up a Christmas tree at a lot, they probably tied it on the car for her, and then she ran some errands. Now here in Rochester NY we have SUPER dirty cars all winter. So we zip through a car wash like most people zip through the drive up ATM. The car wash in our town is one of those laser washes - no attendants. You just pay at a machine, drive in, sit there, and it goes around washing your car. There are no scrub brushes, just jets of suds, water, wax, and blowing air. </p>
<p>Anyway, the funny part is her telling about how the wax made the tree really shine. She’s a nut!</p>
<p>well, at least that car wash took care of any clark griswold surprises…</p>
<p>Slugg---- I SAW THAT!!! I knew instantly… but then, I’ve visited the build and seen you there. 
Well done, everyone raise a toast to SLUGGBUGG THE FAMOUS!</p>
<p>Slugg - are you in the online version or do I have to horrors of horrors, go print?</p>
<p>One of our very own made it to the big time, a mention in Newsweek! And we get Newsweek, so I saw it with my very own eyes! So cool! I know somebody who is in a magazine! I’ll admit I still don’t understand the whole Second Life thing, but perhaps in time . . . Anyway, congrats on the fame!</p>
<p>I’m really curious—guess I’ll have to go to the newsstand!</p>
<p>Sluggie-
That’s just too cool! Can you post a link to your Pelosi avatar??</p>