Ranting again...

[sleigh]

Time for a minor rant. Like most people who still cling to a landline, 90% or more of the calls we receive on that phone are pure garbage, enough that we no longer bother to answer the phone if Caller ID doesn’t give us a name we recognize—if it’s actually an important call, we figure they’ll leave a message. Why do we still have a landline in that case? I often wonder myself. But..

 

It used to be that nuisance/marketing/sales calls rarely-to-never came to my cell phone. Not anymore. As an example: this week on Monday, there were six ‘garbage’ calls; on Tuesday five, yesterday another six. I’m now having to deal with my cell phone the same way we dealt with our landline: don’t recognize the number or the caller, don’t answer. If they don’t bother to leave a message, block that number.

 

I’ve especially been getting garbage calls from some asshats using numbers within the local exchange of my phone number, as getting a call from an unknown entity who shares the first three digits of my phone number will magically cause me to answer. Denise gets the same on her cell with a different exchange number, and other people have told me they’re having the same experience.

 

Cell phones used to be the refuge from the garbage the landlines collected (and one reason—other than expense—why many/most people have dropped their landlines). Now we’re essentially carrying garbage-collecting landlines in our pockets.

 

So if you call me and you’re not already on my contact list, you’d damn well better leave me a message explaining why you called, or you’ll be another number on my exponentially-growing list of blocked callers.  Just sayin’...