War on Drugs has reached a new low

[cheezz]

I used to say 'I'm not interested' and hang up, but after one particualr call, I felt the need to annoy them back.

Almost a year ago, I was sleeping one afternoon,(midnight shift again) when the phone rang. Normally, I don't hear it, but this time I did, because the wife left the phone in the bathroom before she left the house. I am a slow riser and quite groggy when I wake up. I lay there half asleep, waiting for the answering machine to take the call so that I could go back to sleep. For some reason, it never did, and the phone wouldn't stop ringing.

I was still half asleep when in a huff, I threw back the covers and jumped out of bed to silence the dang phone. Next thing I know I'm sitting Indian style on the floor roaring in pain at the top of my lungs. It seems that I fell on my foot somehow. I did serious damage to my foot. The doctors told me that I would have been better off to have broken it. I sprained the foot, all the toes, damaged most of the tendons, broke a blood vessel, and still somehow managed to rip half the skin off of my big toe. My foot was swollen and deep purple for a month. To make matters worse, my place of employment has some safety rule saying that no employee can work on the maufacturing floor with any type of brace, cast, or crutches. For a long time, I had to stuff my swollen foot into an unlaced boot and hobble around on it for 12 hours a day.

When I first got back from the emergency room that day, I looked at the caller ID record to see who needed me so bad. It said 'out of area', which it only ever says when the telemarketers call. So I bought the airhorn a week later and probably blasted about two a week until the can ran out of air. My pain lasted much longer than the can did. Then I went back to hanging up, except now I tell them to F___ off.

There are probably thousands of telemarketers out there, if not tens of thousands. I don't really give a crap what they make. They made it their priority it annoy people. They probably assume that they can get away with it because they are out of reach of the folks they annoy. I make no apologies for my actions, as I feel that they were warranted.