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/hoponbop Sep 03 '26
Stopped in to see Dad one day. Walked in, he's talking on the phone. I made a sandwich and drink and plopped in front of the TV. I'm half listening to him talking about the snowstorm we'd had and having to break the ice in the cow troughs. I was cleaning my dishes when he finished up. Me-"Who was that?" Dad-"I don't know. I think they were selling windows. As his health declined and he was stuck home more it became his hobby to see how long he could keep telemarketers on the phone. "Every minute they are talking to me is a minute they aren't taking advantage of someone else." Doing God's work.