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    How to handle those anoying telephone solicitors....

    As often happens on a weeknight, the phone rang and Jon picked it up first. We had been having Tacos for dinner, and I had wet hands ( I was doing dishes), while Fizz was begging the last bites of hamburger and cheese from the remainder of Jon's dinner.

    Expecting it to be Grandma calling, I waited for Jon to call out for me to pick up the phone - but instead, after a moment or two, he came back to the kitchen and said, "there's this guy on the phone with a foreign accent who wants to talk to you - he asked for "Mr or Mrs Taubein" (a bad mispronunciation of our name) but he thought at first that I was "Mr Taubein" and not a kid, do you want to talk to him? i bet it's a salesman. "

    As I have told Jon often; if someone calls with a difficult accent, and can't pronounce our very simple name, and isn't aware that there hasn't been an adult "Mr." in our household for over ten years, then it's a telephone solicitor, and no, I DON'T want to talk to him - so hang up!

    So Jon went back to the living room to hang up the phone, and burst out laughing -

    there was Fizz, lovingly licking and slurping the phone mouthpiece, and the man on the other end was questioning, "Sir? excuse me, Sir? are you there?"

    When Jon managed to control himself enough to grab the phone from Fizz - he just hung it up - but I bet THAT salesman will never call here again! LOL!

    Laura, Jon and our goofy, kissy girl - Fizz!
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    Hehehe, that is so funny! Thanks for sharing that cute story
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    HAHAH! Good girl Fizz!

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    That's one way to handle them.

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    He he he he......Way to go, Fizz!
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    Hey, that's a great idea!
    Next time someone like that calls me, I'm going to put peanutbutter on the phone to make my dogs lick the phone!

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    lol! leave it to the puppers

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    Good one, Fizz!

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    Ha Ha!!!!! That's a great story, Laura!!!!

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    I've left it up to my dogs to handle telemarketers too. When I saw unavailable on the caller ID I picked up the phone and ran into the living room where all the dogs were crated. That got them all excited and started barking like crazy very loudly as I held out the phone. Whenever they pronounce my name wrong, I say no one by that name lives here. Then there are the times when I answer in spanish "bueno.....bueno?" After saying hello a couple of times they give up and hang up. I'm doomed the day one of them actually speaks spanish.
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    LOL LOL Thanks for the laugh this afternoon!
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    LOL!!! I like that idea.
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    What a great story! I'll have to remember that next time

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    LOL! What a great idea to handle phone solicitors.


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    I've never thought of letting the dogs handle it! I always tell tele-marketers that I am really busy at the moment, but if they give me their home number, I'd be happy to call them back. Of course, they always respond that they are not allowed (or do not want) to give out their home phone numbers. I then ask if that is because they don't want to be bothered at home. This usually ends the conversation rather quickly!
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