Tikkabik

I'm on the state and national do not call list registries, so when I got a call from some service called "Care Free Homes" this morning, I was surprised. She launches into a brief introduction and then asks me, "Do you have an older home?"

My immediate response was to tell her I'm on the "Do Not Call" lists.

"Well, sir, we're exempt from that list ..."

Yeah, I'm aware that certain organizations are exempt from abiding by the do not call lists: Charities. Some non-profits. People running for office. Basically anyone who doesn't sell goods or services.

But this was just the wrong tack to take with me.

"I don't really give a fuck," was my response. "The point, which you're apparently oblivious to, is that I'm totally hostile to anyone who calls my house soliciting any kind of business whatsoever. Take me off your list. Do. Not. Call. Again."

I hung up the phone.

I don't know how much bloody clearer I have to make it to the outside world to leave me the fuck alone, unless I've invited you in. If I could hook up an electrical buzzer to the telephone to give these assholes a shock in their ear, you better believe I would.