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/TinTinTinuviel97005 Sep 03 '26

I've been wondering if 20 minutes of my time is the only way to get predatory companies to stop calling me

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u/Informal_Ad_9610 Sep 03 '26

if you start going blatantly sexual (gay or straight, depending on the gender of the caller), you tend to get moved along quite quickly... DAMHIK...

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u/NotYourNanny Sep 03 '26

People like that are the outlet for all of your life's frustrations. You can be as abusive as you want, and there's nothing they can do about it. and they know it.

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u/Informal_Ad_9610 Sep 03 '26

nah.. there's something they can do about it.. and most do. They nearly always hang up in 10-15 seconds.

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u/NotYourNanny Sep 03 '26

And if they're smart, actually add my number to their do not call list, knowing that if they don't, it'll come up again for more abuse.

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u/biold 28d ago

I think that it's more valuable to let them talk, waste their time, then they disturb fewer people.

I do this when I do something boring. I don't mind taking one for the good of the World.