[tmctguer]

i use telemarketing calls as an opportunity to do crank calling in reverse. usually, my wife hangs up on them. but if i get them, i do all i can to mess with them. in the past, i've:

1). told a telemarketer plugging credit cards that i am a chicken plucker and make $12,000/year. i could hear them laughing in the background, but i kept up the act for 15 minutes.

2). sent sears on a wild goose chase to find my trailer in the middle of a nearby county in CA. i gave them real highways for awhile, then started making them up. i ended up with a description of a cattle guard they must cross, but warned them to honk when they find my trailer due to my very mean pit bull. the dumb*****s called me back 2 days later because they aluminum siding rep couldn't find my trailer. i made up awhole new set of directions. they never called back.

3). acted very, very old and senile and agreed to meet a painting service in my home. when i asked if they would paint my furniture and dogs, they figured i had alzheimers and hung up.

4). when asked to put the lady of the house on the line, i called out to my wife, and just raised my voice to a soprano level and started yapping away. they finally hung up when they figured out i was really a man.

5). got a credit card in the name of some wierd woman whose first, middle and last names were spelled with letters i just pulled out of my *ss. it was a hyphenated muslim-hawaiian-russian sorta name. i still get letters from the credit card company.

there are many others..........i just do it to get a laugh. my wife and kids (when the kids still lived at home) used to be rolling on the floor while i goofed on these idiots.