December.  Telemarketers.  The combination of these two things has dredged up the need to rant so here goes:
To all telemarketers, charities, and anyone else who uses my phone to solicit anything:  Don't waste your time!  Save your money and time and do not call me because:

I NEVER buy anything nor give money to anyone soliciting over the phone.  I do not need another credit card.  I do not need a lower interest rate.  I do not need anything that you can produce, think of, conjure up or whine about.  Just stop using my phone, which I pay for, for doing your business. 

Which brings me to the phone companies.  If the internet email providers give me the ability to block unwanted email addresses for free, then why do the phone companies not provide that service also?  Why is it ok for people to use my phone, which I pay for and for my own convenience, to solicit business?  

I pay extra for call display.  If I want to have an unlisted number, I have to pay extra again.  If I want to be on a "do not call" list, which in itself is an advertising of my phone number, I have to take the time to renew that every year.  The onus is on me to protect my phone privacy. 

Phone companies are abdicating their responsibility to protect our privacy, or to at least protect us from the harassing calls of telemarketers.   There should be an easy few numbers to press to block any further calls from that number, or any number, for that matter. 

So come on people, get on the band wagon and spread the word.  If everyone stopped buying from telemarketers they wouldn't exist.  Personally, I don't know of anyone who buys from a telemarketer or donates to a charity over the phone.  Do you?

By the way, it is like a spring day here today.  The sun is shing, the sky is blue and the snow is melting.  Time to go outside!

bye for now.