A kind of torture
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The phone rings in this house
Starting about 9am.
It just rings and rings.
If I answer all I get is silence or quiet mechanic clicking noises.
"oh right, its one of those auto-dialers, now Ill get a telemarketing call"
Yes, that would seem logical, except the telemarketer never calls. Just more silence and clicking. If I don't answer they call until it rings out, not a few rings and give up, no no never.
The pattern goes like this;
Phone rings for 2 whole painful minutes.
Then it stops, and I breathe a sigh of relief.
The silence seeming more silent than its ever been before.
Then 3-4 minutes after the previous call rang out
It starts ringing again.
When this ringing pattern starts Ive never picked up and gotten a telemarketer.
Answering and hanging up doesn't stop the calls.
Ignoring it and letting them ring out repeatedly doesn't stop them either.
Sometimes it goes on for over an hour.
It may stop at the end of the hour but it will start again at about 2 in the afternoon.
Many times Ive just taken the phone off the hook to preserve some remaining shreds of sanity. Remembering to put it back on is tricky.
It doesn't happen everyday.
One week it might happen once, the next three days in a row.
This calling thing petered out and stopped late last year.
I forgot about its menace.
Today it started again.
We don't have caller ID
and if you do that Call-back thing it says its a private number and you cant return the call.
This is only heightening my telephone anxiety problem.
I think the thing on the phone is trying to kill me by driving me to suicide.
I think thats the only reasonable logical explanation.
Oh god! Its trying to kill me!
MAKE THE RINGING STOOOOOOPPPP
Starting about 9am.
It just rings and rings.
If I answer all I get is silence or quiet mechanic clicking noises.
"oh right, its one of those auto-dialers, now Ill get a telemarketing call"
Yes, that would seem logical, except the telemarketer never calls. Just more silence and clicking. If I don't answer they call until it rings out, not a few rings and give up, no no never.
The pattern goes like this;
Phone rings for 2 whole painful minutes.
Then it stops, and I breathe a sigh of relief.
The silence seeming more silent than its ever been before.
Then 3-4 minutes after the previous call rang out
It starts ringing again.
When this ringing pattern starts Ive never picked up and gotten a telemarketer.
Answering and hanging up doesn't stop the calls.
Ignoring it and letting them ring out repeatedly doesn't stop them either.
Sometimes it goes on for over an hour.
It may stop at the end of the hour but it will start again at about 2 in the afternoon.
Many times Ive just taken the phone off the hook to preserve some remaining shreds of sanity. Remembering to put it back on is tricky.
It doesn't happen everyday.
One week it might happen once, the next three days in a row.
This calling thing petered out and stopped late last year.
I forgot about its menace.
Today it started again.
We don't have caller ID
and if you do that Call-back thing it says its a private number and you cant return the call.
This is only heightening my telephone anxiety problem.
I think the thing on the phone is trying to kill me by driving me to suicide.
I think thats the only reasonable logical explanation.
Oh god! Its trying to kill me!
MAKE THE RINGING STOOOOOOPPPP
4 comments:
That sounds incredibly irritating. This is one of the reasons I don't give out my home number to people, so you don't have to deal with horrible home phones and you can control who is calling you a bit more easily. Having said that, I guess home phones do need to be picked up sometimes.
Oh god, I feel your pain, that used to happen to me at an old house, and I'm pretty sure it continued for the whole 2 years I was there. I would have to roll out of bed and make the trek to get it, then *click* there was no-one there. I would get so furious sometimes and just scream down the phone.
This is before I had a mobile, too, so I couldn't just leave it off 24/7.
I dont give out the house number at all, I use my mobile. I dont think my other housemates really do either, except for relatives.
Depending on your carrier, you can report them and with any luck have something done. Keep in mind that even if you can't see the number, your carrier can.
For Telstra.
For Optus.
Failing that, you can always try phoning your provider and asking what their policy is.
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