Fairly Dumb-Assed

It never hurts to update your states revised No-Call-List. New glitches emerge from the proposition cesspool on occasion. We voters aren't usually aware of these little clauses that are discretely attached to an otherwise harmless looking check box on our ballot. Apparently, enough of us Missourians voted "yes" on...something. After my emphatic delivery of the good sense with which I backed my vote, I felt ...fairly dumb-assed. Yes, I had helped write in a clause to allow phone companies to call with sales pitches and survey calls(sales pitches incognito) and non-profit organizations can call at dinner time and just beg for food.

Since I re-upped our standing, I haven't gotten another of those calls (knock on oak-colored-laminate-particle-board-wood).

Another little thing, I got one of those emails from a friend, that sneakily doesn't really tell you what your in for, only that someone that supposedly loves you wants you to see it. I went to check it out, since it was someone I loved and discovered a really tiny clause under the "retrieve message" that said "By clicking here you agree to let us sell your personal information to every dick with a buck and receive an endless barrage of junk emails that are sure to fill your box every time you download, AND you agree to let us call you at dinner time and beg for food."
I bowed out of that site quickly, if not gracefully. So, I have no clue what that was, but I figure, I didn't know I needed it before I got the email so I guess I can continue to live without it now. I got dumb-assed twice in one day.

I believe that if we were given an outright concise option to vote on whether or not we, the people, want to give those telemarketing companies the freedom to bother us at home, I think the questionnaire would look something like this:

How do you feel about giving the tele-marketers and other money wholes the freedom to call you anytime they like at home or at work or even while youre doing the nasty?
[check the circle next to your choice].

O a. Sure! I'm lonely and will talk their ears off.
O b. No thanks, may they burn in hell.
c. Yeah okay, I wouldn't want to miss out on an opportunity to give my money away to complete high pressure salesman strangers.
(still looking for that circle? No check spot available on option c. because if you think you want to put your mark here you have an IQ of 12 and it's for your own protection).

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2/11/2005 1:46 AM