Originally Posted by
baragabrat
My husband gets to answer the phone occasionally and he has been known to listen to the whole spiel. And he has a hard time too, being hard of hearing. Anymore, he listens to see if he can tell who it is and then just hands me the phone if he thinks it's a solicitor. (we have to listen because the doc's office calls just before our appts. and we want to make sure nothing has changed and so we can verify them, but it's not life or death if we don't.) Anyhow, I then proceed to tell them to take our phone # and all our info out of their database. I'm decent about it but not overly friendly. Succinct and to the point.
But 'diabetes management' called one day and hubby answered and he told the caller that he didn't have diabetes. The caller replied, "then why did you answer the phone?" Like, huh? Finally I told them that was my husband was dead. We haven't heard from them since and they used to call 1-3 times a week.