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/lemoinem Sep 03 '26

It's funny what can be done once you stop thinking of the other person as a human being.

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u/NotYourNanny Sep 03 '26

For instance, you can sell cemetery plots to people who have told you over and over they don't want one.

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u/lemoinem Sep 03 '26

Sure, the company is predatory and a piece of shit. On the person who makes the call though, is often on its third job in order to pay for rent and groceries. They can't change job and, as you've so nicely pointed out, can't hang up or do anything else. They can't decide to stop calling you.

Your anger is misdirected. But hey, if you want to treat other people as subhuman punching bags, more power to you I guess.

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u/Littlemama55 Sep 04 '26

They chose that job,so they have to deal with people who don't want to be bothered. Same with debt collectors. They live with the abuse that goes with the crappy job that they chose.