John’s Ramblings

Like most folks, we don’t like the telephone ringing through the evening with calls from telemarketers, charity organizations, or the occasional survey. We’ve taken what steps we thought were prudent to stem the bombardment, including registering our number(s) with the national do not call registry.

We still get the occasional call, mostly from charitable organizations that don’t have to pay attention to such things since it is their primary source of funding. Once in a while we’ll get a call to participate in a market research survey. We got such a call a couple of weeks ago, and the call was a bit later in the evening than Terri thought appropriate. She let them know, politely, that even if we did want to participate in their survey about radio stations, we wouldn’t want to do so at this late hour. End of conversation.

Apparently not entirely. The research firm sent us this letter of apology, along with two dollars. I’m guessing we’re going to hear from them again in the near future, and the call will be earlier in the evening. Too bad, because I’m about 1.5 apologies away from buying a new spare inner tube for my bike with this new income stream.

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