#49789 by
fisherman bob
Tue Dec 16, 2008 8:08 pm
That reminds me of a couple of episodes I had with people calling. I was over an old guitar player's house one evening rehearsing when he got a call from a bill collector. He saw it on his caller ID and wouldn't answer the phone. I asked him if I could answer it and he said yes. It was from MCI, they were the worst phone company in the history of mankind, I had numerous problems with their bill collectors as well. Anyway I answered the phone. They asked for John, I told them to hold on I'll see if he's in a condition to answer. Then I said "the sonofabitch has been drinking again, does he owe you any money?" They said "we can only talk to him abou it." I said hold on a minute "hey John are you able to talk?" He yelled out something about his girlfriend needing to come over and sit on his face. I told the gal on the phone "sorry about that, he thought you were his girlfriend. Damn it John why don't you clean up all these damn beer cans. I can't even walk in here any more. Hey lady John spends all his money on booze. I don't know if he can ever pay you anything." The lady said "that's okay we'll call back another time." John yelled out something about his whore girlfriend again and I hung up the phone. MCI never called him back again. Years earlier I was rooming with three women and one other guy in a big house (was quite the fun at times). One of the gals was getting obscene phone calls all hours of the night. The other guy was threatening to beat him up if he found out who it was, but the calls kept happening. One night I answered the phone (about three a.m.) and just happened to have a nautical air horn in the room . I used to keep one in my boat if I was fishing. Anyway you can hear the horn up to five miles away, that's how loud it was. I told the phone caller to hang on I got something for you to listen to. Then I blasted it right into the mouthpiece of the phone. He never called back! So if any of you have problems with telemarketers just blast them with a nautical air horn, it'll do the trick.
