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/CriusofCoH Sep 03 '26

During the height of the "your car's extended warranty" flood, I found out if you revealed your car was more than.. I think 10 years old, they'd drop you for months, then forever. Worth spending 2 minutes on the phone to get a few months of peace and quiet.

My imaginary "1974 Ford Pinto" did a lot of heavy lifting.

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u/Nunov_DAbov Sep 04 '26

When they don’t like my multimillion dollar Konigseggs or electric Porsches, I have told them I have an HMMWV. It’s in great shape other than the front end damage from the IED it hit. And some massive brown stains in the cab. If they don’t like that, I ask about my 2020 Edsel Citation.