So, like everyone we get our fair share of calls from various organizations trying to sell us their snake oil. My husband has a knack for saying just the right thing to get us removed from their call lists. Sometimes he will tell this long winded sob story. Other times it is unrepeatable. He enjoys thinking of things to get them person on the phone to feel uncomfortable and want to hang up. Then he gets a good chuckle and moves on to something else. The other night, I think he had the best response to a telemarketer yet. Here in our part of the Phoenix area we have two newspapers; The Arizona Republic and The Tribune. The Arizona Republic is a huge monster of a daily paper with monthly delivery fees. My husband hates this paper. Apparently their sports section does not report on hockey close enough to the front page because our local team is terrible. The East Valley Tribune is a much smaller paper, less stories, but decent enough reading. They also recently turned to a 4 day a week paper that is delivered free due to budget. I assume they make their money on ads. Even though they are smaller, one of their reporters won a Pulitzer prize for a investigative story about our ridiculous county sheriff (who is an ass, but that is just my opinion, but he completely is one).
So getting back to the telemarketing...the phone rang the other night and my husband answers. There is silence for a minute and then I hear
"..until you can give me a free paper and a Pulitzer...I am simply not interested...hello?...hello?"
The Arizona Republic was not amused. I was cackling.
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