TheBanyanTree: FW: Please stop

[Monique]

Today's letter to the editor of our local rag.

 

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From: Monique [mailto:monique.ybs at verizon.net] 
Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2006 12:10 PM
To: 'opinion at seattletimes.com'
Subject: Please stop

 

Please stop calling me, every other day, or every third day, or every so
often, or now and then, or as the mood strikes. I know it's not you, not
really you, I know this because the calls come from a different area code
altogether, they come from some remote call center where the notion of no is
nothing more than a memory of times past, a memento of a time when no meant
no, not "call me back in two days, because by then I'll have reconsidered
and changed my mind," and I didn't think, the first time I said no to the
statement (it wasn't really a question at all) that the Seattle Times would
like to send me 13 weeks of a free weekly papers to supplement my apparently
meager subscription of weekends only that my response, my emphatic, "No
thanks," would be interpreted as anything other than "No thanks, please move
on to your next victim," but my response was interpreted differently, it was
interpreted as "Not today, but perhaps tomorrow, so please call me back, and
when I say no tomorrow, call me back again, and again, and again, and
eventually you shall wear me down with your persistence and eventually I
shall give in and take your paper every day whether I want it or not,
because it is easier to give in." 

 

But I shall not give in. I will instead ignore calls from that area code
altogether. Your call center is doing you no favors. Asking me once is one
thing, but in the past week I have been asked four times. Four times. The
last time I was rather rude and just hung up as soon as the caller started
with his little, "I'm calling from the Seattle Times . . ." because I just
couldn't bear to spend more time telling the same people no again and again
and again. 

 

I am not fond of playing a broken record player. When someone says no,
kindly move on to other phone numbers and do not recycle my number for a
callback in two days. It won't work. I shall not take your free newspapers.
Why I shall not take them is my business, so I won't bother to say why. 

 

Have a great day.

 

 

Monique Young

19915 Bothell Everett Hwy #1109

Bothell, WA 98012

I'd give you my phone number, but apparently you already have it, in the
massive database where such things are stored.