MistressRosalyn
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ORIGINAL: LadyMondenschein Another time, someone from an insurance agency called when I was staying with my mom. The sickly sweet voice of the woman on the other end asked for my father. (he'd been deceased five years). I told her I would take a message and asked what company she was calling from.. She told me and advised that it was urgent that she speak with him. I told her that he was not interested in what she was selling. So she replied, "well, I don't know that, DEAR> I haven't heard from him". I told her that if she'd wanted to hear from him, she should hold a seance because he's been dead for five years and proceeded to hang up on her audible gasp. Happy New Year When my father passed away, my mother left the phone under his name, because back then, having a woman's name in the phone book was like painting a big target on your back. (Incidentally, she left it under his name for about 12 years, then switched it to her name, and it's STILL in that name...but she hasn't lived in that house for over 30 years! Just shows how lazy my brother is!) So if someone called for "Roland", we'd know that they were telemarketers...clever, eh? We'd usually say that he was not expected in, and could I help them...but one guy was REALLY insistent, and was trying to act like he knew "Roland" and that "Roland" would want to hear from him. Well, it had been a bad day, and I was getting a bit upset, so I finally told him, "Excuse me, but you're barking up a dead tree!" and I hung up. Unbelievably, he had the nerve to call back! When he asked what I meant, I explained how long my dad had been gone (something like 7 years at that time), and he quietly said goodbye and hung up. The nerve of some people! And actually, I have to say that my brother leaves it in my mom's name for similar reasons, it sure clears out the telemarketers, but also, when her old friends pass away, their kids want to contact my mom and let her know...and her number is right there. ****************************** Merc, you are positively evil!... I like that in a man! Keep the stories coming folks! Reading them has reminded me of other classics that have long been lost in the cobweb covered corridors of this old brain. I used to have a memory, really I did, but it was lost somewhere in the fallout from the '70's. Ahhhh! The '70's, when good brains went bad.
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