You have given me a solution.
While shopping at our local market, not too very long ago, The Oscar Meyer Wienie truck was there. They were handing out souvenir wienie whistles. When I shared with the driver my reason for wanting one, he chuckled and gave me several! My next to youngest granddaughter was with me and she was thrilled to acquire some as well.
I brought my treasure find a home and tucked them in my desk for safekeeping. After all, I wanted to be sure to find them when I needed to use them.
It took about a year or so and l and behold my favorite insurance scam artists started their daily calling. You know the ones, Can you hear me? Am I clear enough? Etc. Etc. wanting to sell you Medicare supplement insurance you never will use. They are persistent and will call daily, sometimes two or three times daily. They never let you talk and they will talk right over the top of you. The main objective is to get you to say yes when they ask "can you hear me o.k.?" This will get you signed up. Never, ever, ever say yes to any question a telemarketer asks you! I always answer, " did I ask you to call me?" They will just keep talking over the top of me.
This is a very annoying phone call and it is daily, Sundays and Holidays are no exception!
I have tried pressing one to be removed, cussing at them, asking them why they don't get a real job?, Asking them if they kiss their mother with that mouth, asking them if they just got out of prison, telling them to not call again! You name it, I tried it!
Finally, Oscar Meyer gave me the solution! Lo and behold when I got my call from the pushy, annoying, rude insurance scam artist again, I let him have it, but good! I grabbed my handy, dandy little Oscar Meyer whistle out and blew that bad boy into the receiver of that phone, not once, but three long loud whistles!, Surprisingly, he did not hang up. Instead, he waited and asked why I did that. I responded I did not do anything. That was merely my Bullsh@t detector and when it senses Bullsh@t it goes off!
I have not gotten another call since that day. Amazing how solutions are right there in front of you when you really need them.