The Buckets by Greg Cravens for December 11, 2016

You’re a nicer man than I am, Frank Bucket.

Ditto.

Alas, the option to send a high voltage shock to the caller has not yet been implemented.

my son actually turned the table and tried selling something back to the caller. It didn’t last long but it was funny. yeah, I know, the poor guy was trying to earn a living, too.

I once flirted with a telemarketer. She hung up really quick :D :D :D

This is an all too familiar scenario.

This could be a new thing – SMASHING PHONES!

For dudes my standard is “Try & find honest work, you bottom-feeding scumbag!” – click.For women? “What color is your underwear?”

Use Nomorobo. Phone rings once than it hangs up on numbers that have not called you before. I still don’t answer if I don’t recognize the number. Figure someone else in the house has picked up the phone on that number before. Callsare NEVER for me anyway, and I like it that way.

Learn just enough of an unusual foreign language to confuse ’em. Very few people even recognize Gaelic.

If you’ve called or contacted a company, they have the right to call you. Solution: Refuse to give a phone number, or put all ‘9’.

Let the answering machine pick it up. YES, I still have an answering machine.

I hate it even worse when a computer calls me, then puts me on hold.

I don’t answer the phone my old fashioned answering machine does so I avoid all this baloney!

My phone has a “block call” button and stores 300 numbers. I use it a LOT!