Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for June 15, 2022

10m of flat road and 9.99km of vertical descent.

Every once in awhile I listen long enough to get an actual human, at which point I cheerfully invite them to eat (you know what) and die in agony.

There should be zillions more of them lined up.

This should be mandatory!

Big time spectator sport

I get calls regarding my expired car warranty, for a car I haven’t owned in 12 years!!!

telemarketer crime scene prank

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttrzG5F4R3o

Lately I have been engaging them in discussions about what a better job for them would be. I usually start out by saying that they seem to be talented at phone work (this is only for those who are genial, personable and intelligent) and then tell them a bit about my experiences and successes and, mainly, salaries doing marketing phone work, where you just do surveys to get opinions. :D they wind up thanking me profusely and we part, both happy.

While not a complete cure, I signed upo for the Federal “Do Not Call” list, and that seems to have cut down on calls quite a bit.

(Most) competitors are not repeat competitors.

Pie in the sky always keeps lots of food trucks on the road.

Inspired by lemmings?

Watch that first step. It’s a doozy!

Uh-oh. It is to be hoped it’s not one of those title-sponsored sports events.

Wiley you are so clever and a master at drawing what people have on their minds, thank you Master

10k, straight down.

That’s 10K mm.

I don’t get telemarketers – I get robocalls, sometimes in Chinese.

I get that telemarketers can be annoying. However, try to remember they are people trying to make a living.I’ve done telemarketing myself, during desperate times. It’s not easy work, and management often treats you dirt.

If politicians really wanted to accomplish something they could find a way to stop the fraudulent calls.

I desperately want to be at the finish line to see who wins. Pleeeze!! (Anyone know what a Buffalo Jump is?)

Make it ransomware hackers and I’ll make the popcorn.

Love it!

Is 10K the height of the dropoff?

One could easily change out telemarketers for “texters”, “lawyers”, “helpline workers”, “Rachael from Card Holder Services” … etc.

Caller ID – best thing ever.

I assign unique ring tones to people who are important enough to talk to me.

Can’t be the “1st Annual” if it hasn’t happened a second time yet. It’s instead the “Inaugural”.

The telemarketers were doing something legal. We don’t have telemarketers any more. We have scammers.

“Does you mother know what you do for a living?” long pause “No, bye”

Will they find serendipity?

I just tell them thanks for calling and I would like a large pepperoni pizza

I work in a school computer lab. The kids like to put on the headsets and talk into the microphones as if they’re fighter pilots or something. I tell them they look like telemarketers. That tends to quiet them down.

The irony is, those guys could never run a marathon because they sit on their butts all day long and are in sorry shape

How many telemarketers does it take to change a light bulb? Only one, but it has to be at meal time.

All proceeds to go to a charity for the clueless. Seriously, there are always other jobs – floor cleaning, mob debt collector, nuclear reactor polisher – any other job.

Watch that first step! It’s a doozie!!!

Bravo!!

Is that a cliff or a wall?

Just use the starter’s pistol and get ’em before they get to the edge!

it needs to be a MUCH bigger field of runners

If there were only 5 telemarketers left in the world,there’d be no need for the race.

And I do NOT need solar paneling!!

Well…I have told them to take a long walk off a short pier quite a few times.

Annual? Can’t we make it hourly?

I answer, “Aloha” and they hang up.

It looks more like a .01 K run and a 9.99 K fall.

Looks like the end of the road.

Oh, I would pay good money to watch this event.

I just say pleasantly, no thank you, and hang up. No bad feelings. The strip Is funny, however.

People will just hit fast forward.

Of course I get the ‘expired car warranty’ shtick. Also I get calls from ‘Internal Revenue Services’ (not the IRS; they never phone you), or ‘credit card services’ (same thing; my CC balance is zero anyway). Be aware of these little nuances.

No, as to actual humans telemarketing maybe, I could (with a Sicilian accent) say “This is Tony Di Lucca. Who d’ya want popped?” Or just mutter gibberish, and see how soon they hang up. (I’m assuming they’ve heard it all anyway). I like the CIA thing.

In the context of ‘If I could have any superpower’ I often think it would be nice to be able to mete out swift justice on scammers. They make me hate my phone and email.

More like 10 paces than 10 kilometres.

I don’t know about viewers but people should be lining up to sponsor entrants in the race.

Where did they find a 10K Cliff?

Even the Grand Canyon is only 6,000 feet deep at its deepest point. That’s only 1.8K.

The Grand Canyon would certainly get the job done. … Leaving cleaning up the mess. …But composting agriculture and the environment would benefit.