The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for January 29, 2021

I don’t even bother to answer UNLESS it’s someone I know.

I have an answering machine on my landline and voice mail as a part of my landline service. If someone calls while my phone is busy it’ll send that call to voice mail. More than once I have gotten a spam call that I let go to the answering machine and a spam call that went to voice mail. Caller ID is a wonderful thing. Whenever I get a call from say Tacoma WA or Ohio I know to ignore it. I just don’t have time to talk to all of those people. And I never ever answer it when caller ID says that the caller is me. I know there will be harsh words between myself.

About two a day. They never leave a message. Always different numbers. No doubt New Delhi calling.

That happens to me a lot as well.

Most of the time there is no-one on the phone if I answer. Want a free back brace, anyone?

I’m getting spam calls about a Medicare plan. I tell them that I’m not eligible for Medicare. They just hang up without saying a word.

That’s because sometimes these idiots call more than one phone number and only talk to the first person to answer the rest they hang up on.

Usually I don’t answer unknown callers, but sometimes do. I want to tell them to quit calling me. Usually it’s a collection agency looking for the previous owner of the number, if not some babbling recorded message in some Chinese language.

Yesterday I answered a call – from someone who called to tell me to quit calling them. So apparently my phone number is being spoofed. I reported it to the FTC.

I beat you Thorny! I get 3-4 hang ups in a row, they all call within a few minutes of each other

@Art and Chip Sansom – That is a funny punch line. I laughed aloud!

When even your closest friends won’t tell you.

They often hang up on me when I ask “What are you wearing?”, “where do you live?”…

Lucky you. I am forced to hang up on them, which, I actually like doing, truth be known…..

No, the proof is that you tried to have a conversation with it…

Ah yes, the robo calls. You’re better off Brutus. You could be listening to a computer generated voice telling you that the IRS is going to send the police to arrest you in thirty minutes. That is unless you pay a fine to them.

I get lots of calls from my good buddy, Scam Likely. How come I don’t get any from Spam Likely? (◔_◔)

Tell me how that works.

I guess there’s something to be said about being a born loser. Mostly better you then me.

Lucky you!!!

Brutus, what really makes you a loser in this case is that you answered the phone in the first place. There are a number of ways to avoid being the victim of robocalls.

Now, you’ll never be able to get the extended warranty for your vehicle.

Say what you want about him but at least Brutus has great self awareness. And that puts him ahead of a substantial part of the world’s population

me too.

My favorite was one threatening there was an arrest warrant blah, blah, blah. So, of course, I did the first logical thing and called my friend who works in law enforcement and ask her if I could hide at her place?