I’ve come to realize that answering the phone during the day brings only telemarketers, surveys, and bill collectors. This said, unless the caller ID says “mom” or “mother-in-law,” I barely answer and the moms are lucky when I do.
But today for some reason, I answered.
uber-friendly recorded female voice: “Hello! We’d like to invite you to take part in a short survey about your feelings on abortion.”
Ummm…. Me thinks I’d like to take part in THIS call.
extra-uber-friendly voice: “If you’d like to take part in this survey, please hold the line.”
Holding….
extra-uber-friendly voice: “If you are Pro-Life and believe life begins at conception and want to see that all babies, born and unborn, are worth saving, PRESS ONE.”
Holding….
non-friendly sad-lady voice: “If you are Pro-Choice and believe that a woman has the right to end the life of her baby at any time during her pregnancy, PRESS NINE.”
Pressing NINE
extra-uber-friendly voice: “Thank you for choosing Pro-Life and believing that a baby’s life begins at conception! If you’d like to help our cause, pleae contact….”
HANG UP
Um. I’m sorry. Is my Pro-Choice-self that dumb that I confused the number NINE for the number ONE? Or are you self-righteous crazies** altering your “survey” to reflect YOUR beliefs to prove your inaccurate point?
Cause, I missed something here.
And I’m PISSED.
*My memory’s not like it was in the Mensa days, so some quoted words may not have been exactly correct in the exact order written, but you get the gist.
**I do not believe all Pro-Lifers are self-righteous crazies - just the people (pro-choice and pro-life alike) who alter their ’surveys’ based on inaccurate information.
I would have been fucking pissed off, too. *seething with you*
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“at any time in her pregnancy”? Really?
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I would have been pissed off too… I would have *69′d the call and called them back!
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seriously, my blood is beyond pissed that this really happened..
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Fuckin’ loonies.
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The questions are not even asked fairly even before blatantly skewing their own results. It’s possible to be pro-choice while believing that life begins at conception, and pro-choice also doesn’t mean pro-at-any-point-in-the-pregnancy. But, THEN, to switch it all around anyway? Ugh. Annoying. Crazy people suck.
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Hmph. Maybe their phone system was just messed up?
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Are you serious!? What a scam!
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I’m with you…I never answer the phone during the day:P
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Never fall for the telephone survey. There are no good phone calls during the day. Repeat. There are no good phone calls during the day. That is why caller id is my god.
On a side note- I like that your posts are short and sweet. I don’t have time in the summer to read long blog posts. Plus, it makes me feel better about myself since I can’t get a coherent thought out this time of year.
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Did I spell coherent correctly?
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I guess I’m naive because that really shocked me.
Wow.
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These are the exact phone calls that make me not answer unless I know the number!!! I am fuming right here with you!!!
Stoopid Loonies!!!
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I never, NEVER listen to those ‘recorded’ phone calls. And I NEVER respond to survey calls - if they want my opinion, they can pay me to get it. And they can TALK TO ME. Or else they can piss off.
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Seriously, only in America.
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Oh my! I’ll be sure to not pick my phone up during the day from now on! Grrrrrr!
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Exactly what Xbox4NappyRash said!!!
Only in the “land of the free” can you REALLY have ‘one choice’!!
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Ding, ding, ding. Here’s the Matron, dialing 9. She’d be pissed, too.
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[…] I was doing some blog hopping earlier because seriously, what’s better than catching up on the blogs you love to read but sometimes are too busy to visit as often as you’d like? I was reading A Whole Lot of Nothing and came across this post. […]
Crazy pro-life loony assholes! I’ve been hearing so much about pro-life hypocrisy (because come on, it’s staring us in the face with every other sentence that comes out of one of their mouths) and this is just getting ridiculous. If you’re going to conduct a survey, at least take the info generated from said survey into consideration. I blogged about this with lots of links to this post, I hope you don’t mind.
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Yep. This is pretty much why I don’t answer the phone during the day. I always end up pissed.
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Did you happen to get the number they called from? Give it to me… I’ll call them every day giving them a piece of my mind. Nobody is taking my right to choose away!
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I hate them with a passion!!! I tried “talking” to a group of them picketing once. BIG mistake. They’re a bunch of fucking lunatics!
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