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When I get a call I answer and hang up to stop the ringing. It's just a matter of pressing two buttons. We do get repeat calls occasionally. I don't pay a lot of attention to the caller ID as sometimes it displays my name.
 
I tell them that I AM very interested in whatever they're selling, be it an extended warranty on my car, or to pay off my college loan, or how I won a cruise because of a fictitious recent stay in some hotel, but then I ask them to hold on for a moment, then just for another moment, then again. They eventually catch on and hang up.

One guy kept calling me after that so I asked about the extended warranty on my 16 year old truck with 250,000 miles on it. He hung up.

Another guy called me back to talk about my college loans. I told him I graduated from Harvard and was in terrible debt. I told him that it's extremely expensive to go through the full course at the Harvard Driving School to get my driver's license. He hung up too.
 
I have never been good at hanging up on people, ever, no matter why or what, I just wasn't raised to hang up or be impolite in any way. So during the divorce my ex, for about 10 years, he was horrible and would threaten me or tell me he wouldn't follow the court order and how he would hurt our kids to get his way...I would get so weak and try not to show the boys that I was hurt by what was said. One day my teenage boy took me aside. This was when we had land lines with sturdy phones. He said, 'Look at this, when dad is dad, you SLAM SLAM SLAM the phone against the wall with all your might, THEN you hang up.' The next time it happened, I did, and I felt much better and the boys felt better too because I was handling the stress much better. Then we all kind of giggled and life was a little better. I'm not nearly as weak now. I shut down phone calls within seconds and never feel a pinch of guilt at being impolite.
 
Back in the days when we got obscene phone calls, I kept a whistle near the phone. Are those even a thing anymore, now that people are sending obscene pix?
 
taxlady said:
Back in the days when we got obscene phone calls, I kept a whistle near the phone. Are those even a thing anymore, now that people are sending obscene pix?
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"Back in the day" yup, well before cell phones, I would just put the phone down and walk away. These calls usually happened at night and therefore had go problem leaving the phone off the hook. I did not hang up, just put the phone down and walked away.

Doing so tied up their phone and they could not use it. :mrgreen::mrgreen:
as most of these calls were by kids - I envisioned the parent either trying to call home or even just trying to use the phone.

That no longer happens now as there is a cut off timer but I loved it! Once, in my studio where I had two lines, I left the line open all weekend, only hanging it up on Monday morning! :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO: I'll bet those kids got blistered! The only way they could get their phones back on line was to get in touch with Bell and convince them to disconnect it from.... me :angel:
 
With no caller ID on our land line, I had to hang up on many a spam call. Haven't had to do that in about four years, since we have only cell phones now. When my phone rings, my display will show the name of a caller if they're in my contact list. No name? No pick-up. I'll let the call roll to voicemail. I'll google the number to see if there are any reports on that number, then add them to my automatic reject list on my phone. I appreciate not having a land line the most during election cycles. No candidate calls, no issues calls - no problem. Sure keeps my blood pressure down. :LOL:
 
Just as soon as I think my 2 oldest boys are pulling their heads out of their butts they shove them back up there again!
The 21 year old quit his job and is now going to work under the table for cash. Because he decided he can cheat the system and not pay child support. We have explained his flawed thinking and but he gets mad and storms off. When asked what he is going to do when they take his drivers license he replied that he just wont turn it in. We tried to explain that is not how this works but he is right and we are all wrong. So I will just let him figure it out on his own.
The 19 year old got a pretty decent job and moved in with some girls. That is until he got drunk and crashed one of the girls cars. The only car for the whole house. He got DWI and is getting sued by the girls insurance company. They threw him out of the house so he had to back to live with his mother. Thank god nobody got hurt. Frankly I was surprised they didn't find and drugs on him. Dang kids just wont listen to anything.

Here is where the real rant starts!

Then people say oh Jon your boys are just like you! Really? Really? From the time I turned 16 I was pretty much on my own! I had 3 jobs in high school. I bought my own cars. I paid my own bills. I never did drugs. I did drink and I got in a little trouble. Ok I tried pot a couple times didn't agree with me. I was never in jail. I got custody of my kids until I let them go live with their mother. I have never wreaked a car. Son number one has totaled out 2 and ruined several buy just beating on them. Son number 2 just got is second at fault accident. Totaled out one car and be lucky if this one is not totaled.
But yea they are JUST LIKE ME. When people say that I just want tell them off!
 
But yea they are JUST LIKE ME. When people say that I just want tell them off!
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Jon, they sound like the kind of person that deserves to be told off. They clearly didn't know you at all.

Kids, when they get to those ages, make mistakes, and they will learn whether they want to or not because society will give them consequences. It's hard being a parent even after they leave the nest. Don't be an enabler of bad behavior and give yourself a pat on the back for setting a good example.
 
Hang in there, Jon..your boys are adults now and have to live with the consequences of their choices...you did your job by getting them to this age. Not much more you can do....just worry about making yourself happy..you've only got one life...
 
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The most amusing calls are scam calls. I usually play along with these types of calls. I don't hang up on these guys. With a heavy foreign accent I get a call at my place of business and the guy identifies himself as someone from the utility company and tells me that if I don't pay my past due balance my electricity will be turned off by the end of the day. So I play along, I don't ask for info on the account, and I just ask him how much I owe. And this is where it gets bizzare. He instructs me to go to Target and purchase a gift card, ($200, for example) and gives me a special call back number. So I tell him ok, I'll do that asap, and I hang up. I think IRS scammers operate in the same manner, but I haven't gotten a call from them yet.
 
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I don't bother playing games with phone jerks who just want to waste my time. Most of the time, I never even know they called because I use an app called Should I Answer? It uses a crowdsourced database of numbers associated with spam, nuisance and other unwanted calls that I can add to. If someone is legit, they can leave a message.
 
Farmer Jon said:
Just as soon as I think my 2 oldest boys are pulling their heads out of their butts they shove them back up there again!
The 21 year old quit his job and is now going to work under the table for cash. Because he decided he can cheat the system and not pay child support. We have explained his flawed thinking and but he gets mad and storms off. When asked what he is going to do when they take his drivers license he replied that he just wont turn it in. We tried to explain that is not how this works but he is right and we are all wrong. So I will just let him figure it out on his own.
The 19 year old got a pretty decent job and moved in with some girls. That is until he got drunk and crashed one of the girls cars. The only car for the whole house. He got DWI and is getting sued by the girls insurance company. They threw him out of the house so he had to back to live with his mother. Thank god nobody got hurt. Frankly I was surprised they didn't find and drugs on him. Dang kids just wont listen to anything.

Here is where the real rant starts!

Then people say oh Jon your boys are just like you! Really? Really? From the time I turned 16 I was pretty much on my own! I had 3 jobs in high school. I bought my own cars. I paid my own bills. I never did drugs. I did drink and I got in a little trouble. Ok I tried pot a couple times didn't agree with me. I was never in jail. I got custody of my kids until I let them go live with their mother. I have never wreaked a car. Son number one has totaled out 2 and ruined several buy just beating on them. Son number 2 just got is second at fault accident. Totaled out one car and be lucky if this one is not totaled.
But yea they are JUST LIKE ME. When people say that I just want tell them off!
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Jon, your story is like so many other parents with adult kids making bad choices, so you're not alone in that. I know that's no comfort at all and I really feel for you. I personally know of so many really good folks having broken hearts because of their kids and it's shocking and unfair. To those who say the kids are just like you..set them straight!! Don't be quiet about it. You deserve support, not criticism.
 
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