Comments on: Lori’s Pet Peeve O’ the day…

By: Lori

Lori — Sat, 09 Jul 2005 23:41:42 +0000

We are in general a bunch of tough chicks! How cool is that? Would you believe in Montana they use your social security number for your driver’s license number? (at least they did when I lived there.) And I can’t say how many arguments I have gotten into with medical record type people or phone company type people who expect me to give them my social security number just cause. Maroons.
But, Alyssa, Lynn and Teresa, DON’T help with the furniture!! Be rude!! If I read about you being abducted and chopped up into tiny pieces I am going to be really hacked off at you. (you are afraid now–aren’t you?)

By: Alyssa

Alyssa — Sat, 09 Jul 2005 16:54:03 +0000

OK, I think that lotion guy should have been beaten with a big bottle of lotion until he was blue. (I’m not really violent, but just hearing what he did makes me angry.)

As for the questions:

1. I ignore them.

2. Wish I had caller ID. Since I don’t, I usually either screen calls through my answering machine or hang up if I pick it up and there’s a long pause before the person responds to my hello. That’s a sure sign of a telemarketer.

3. Hmmm. A stranger, huh? I would probably tell them I was in a hurry and couldn’t help. (Is that mean? I just don’t think I could say yes, not after reading Imitation in Death.)

4. I never give out my social security number unless applying for a job or for credit.

Interesting post.

Alyssa

By: Mary Stella

Mary Stella — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 15:10:14 +0000

I answer the door and find out what they want. If I’m not interested in hearing about their religion, buying what they are selling, etc., I politely turn them away.

If it’s a telemarketer, I listen for the introduction. If they’re soliciting funds I tell them that I don’t respond to telephone solicitations and to please take me off their call list. If they’re trying to sell me a service, I say no and ask them to take me off the call list. That’s the trend.

I, too, remember the Ted Bundy/Silence of the Lambs thing. I won’t help someone lift heavy furniture — but I help senior citizens with unwieldy shopping carts or if I see them trying to lift cases of soda or water and other heavy stuff in the supermarket parking lot.

No, no, a thousand times no. I NEVER give out my social security number. That’s an invitation to let someone steal my identity!

By: Teresa

Teresa — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 01:10:41 +0000

1. Nope. I don’t answer the door.
2. The machine is wonderful and that’s who answers here first.
3. The helping with the furniture . . . depends I guess on my mood. What time of day it is. If anyone else were around.
4. I never give out my social.

And those mall guys are a pain! Totally.

By: Lynn Daniels

Lynn Daniels — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 22:03:37 +0000

First, I’m wondering what about the bookplate requests sets off your alarm bells. And I totally related to your attack at the mall. Now, on to your questions.

1. I’m a wimp about that. I answer the door and talk to them. Sometimes I give them the “I’m sorry, but I don’t have time now” excuse, but not always.

2. Caller ID is a wonderous thing. If my phone rings and comes up “unknown” or shows an 800 number or some other I don’t recognize, I let it go to the machine.

3. Yes, I’d help, the whole time remembering that scene from “Silence of the Lambs” and getting the heebie-jeebies.

4. I never give out my social security number. Never. Period.