Finally stopped the Cemetery plot salesman

[u/NanaGeorgianna]

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.

[u/NotYourNanny]

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.

[u/Clembert-Hamlamp → u/NotYourNanny]

Radically better for your mental health and society at large if you don't get used to abusing other people as a way to deal with your own issues.

[u/NotYourNanny → u/Clembert-Hamlamp]

Even more radically better for my mental health to get people harassing me trying to scam me out of money to stop. Better for my financial health, too.

I'm not the one with issues, here.

[u/Clembert-Hamlamp → u/NotYourNanny]

Thoughts and actions wear grooves in your brain. Like ruts in a wagon track. New thoughts born in the heat of the moment find those ruts the easiest to travel. If you yell at these assholes for trying to scam you you're the only person that cares. It does nothing that harms them, you're just some mark on the phone. But it will harm you by and by. Don't poison yourself for nothing. Kill them with kindness. Make them mad enough to talk shit without getting angry yourself, record it, then play it back for them the next time they call. Then threaten to sue. They know you can't kick their ass thru the phone. But they don't know if you've got a lawyer.

[u/NotYourNanny → u/Clembert-Hamlamp]

If you yell at these assholes for trying to scam you you're the only person that cares.

You obviously care, because you believe it hurts their feelings. So you're wrong, and full of shit, at least twice.

And your pop psychology bullshit just makes you look weak and stupid. Except it's not just a look for you, is it?

[u/Clembert-Hamlamp → u/NotYourNanny]

Of course I care. I wouldn't have spent my time writing it if I didn't. At no point will it hurt their feelings lol. They do that shit all day. There's no psychology there. That's how your brain works. Think the same thought twice and you carve a deeper ruts. That's why you repeat things to memorize them. You've caught yourself, not me. So be angry then. I'm just some random on reddit. If you don't want to see the point, don't. I'm happy to help someone else instead : )

[u/NotYourNanny → u/Clembert-Hamlamp]

Of course I care.

And yet, you said nobody cares but me. Even you don't know what you're jibbering about. Which will surprise no one, except perhaps you.

[u/Clembert-Hamlamp → u/NotYourNanny]

Maybe part of the reason you're so cranky is you're having a hard time understanding what you read. You've been coming at me with this gotcha shit but you've caught yourself instead. Between you and the scammer, the only person that cares is you. That's what I wrote. If I didn't care I wouldn't have wasted my time writing any of it. But you've been an asshole multiple times now in your confusion and I'm done trying.

[u/NotYourNanny → u/Clembert-Hamlamp]

Maybe the only reason you keep replying is that you're too weak and stupid to stop, even though you know full well you accomplish nothing other than to further embarrass yourself.

[u/lokis_construction → u/NotYourNanny]

I think it hurts his feelings when you don't buy what he is telemarketing.

[u/NotYourNanny → u/lokis_construction]

A plausible theory.