I wouldn't even be sharing that, or the year you were born. Also avoid using the word 'yes'. You would be (or maybe not) surprised on how many different ways there are to scam you.
I don't usually answer unknown phone numbers, but if I do, and it's a telemarketer, I will sometimes interrupt them and say 'you are on a recorded line. I am legally required to tell you that." My ratio of hang ups is amusing.
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." -- James Madison
Are you familiar with Tom Mabe? He put out a number of albums of actual telemarketer calls that he received, and the mind games he played on the telemarketers. They range from the just goofy to the borderline cruel - like the time he convinced a guy selling pre-paid burial plans that he was holding a gun and about to commit suicide. You can find a lot of them on YouTube.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing. - Robert E. Howard
"Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas and not eat a chicken fried steak." - Larry McMurtry
I have seen so many people, mostly the elderly, ripped off by "tele-marketers. It's really sad.
I don't answer the phone if the number is not known to me. And if one slips by and I answer, I never give any personal information over the phone. I always tell them to send me a letter and I will consider answering the questions. I usually get hung up on.
Thanks, I will take a look. I enjoy humor of many flavors.
"Cruel" and the word "humor" rarely dine together so the shock factor is the hook that keeps them listening, imo
It's like my joke asking what you get in Arkansas for running over a family of five at a crosswalk.
50 bonus points ....
I'm yo.
This my brother yo
We yo yo
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing. - Robert E. Howard
"Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas and not eat a chicken fried steak." - Larry McMurtry
I am 75 years of age--not exactly a spring chicken--but I have no fear of being "ripped off" by telemarketers (or anyone else, for that matter).
I am extremely cynical!
(If I were to purchase a new car--and I probably would not, as I believe in purchasing a year-old car, and letting someone else take the hit on depreciation--I would actually feel sorry for the salesperson, regardless of how long he or she had been in the business.)
Excellent response!