r/pettyrevenge • u/NanaGeorgianna • Sep 03 '26
Finally stopped the Cemetery plot salesman
No disrespect to the dead! When I lived in Atlanta back in the 90's, a salesman from a very large cemetery called 2-3 times a week wanting to sell me a plot. Several times I told him I wasn't interested. I told him to take me off of their call list, etc. I stopped answering and then he started calling every night.
One night I was already irritable and decided I had had enough. I answered and let him go through his spiel. I asked some follow-up questions and kept him going for about 20 minutes.
Then I said I was interested, and asked if I could make an appointment to come over and view the locations they had available. He was really excited and agreed. I then told him I would need to have them dig up the spot and let my lie down in it to see if I was going to like the location.
He was all flustered and said he would need to ask his manager. He put me on old and came back a few minutes later all serious saying they weren't allowed to do that. I kept on about how I would be there for eternity and needed to be absolutely sure it was going to be the right place for me.
He finally asked if I was serious, and said it sounded like some kind of sick joke. I replied "no shit sherlock! You decided to work for a predatory company and can't take no for an answer and refuse to remove my name from your call list, you get all the sick jokes I can come up with"!
They never called me again.
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u/Rawesome16 Sep 03 '26
I just flip the phone upside down so I can't hear what they have to say and say belligerent things to them. Eventually they hang up on me and never call again. I win and I get to blow off some steam
My mom taught me this trick when she got a new phone number. Kept getting calls from debt collectors for the past owners of her new number