Naked Hobo

I almost got myself hornswaggled.  I am too crafty though.  Companies send out these mailings that look like bills.  They are not bills though, they are sign ups for services you currently don’t have.  If you pay what you think is a bill they got you.  I got one recently from some phone book company.  Now if I had been busy and not paying attention, $326.83 would have gone out the window for a phone book add in the Chicago area.  We operate in Milwaukee, I don’t see anyone traveling the 90 plus miles from Chicago for our services.  The whole scam thing tells you that you need to send the money now to keep your ad current.  For me, keeping an ad current only works if I already have one.  I have taken it as policy now that I call theses people and find out what the charges are really for.  They told me on the phone that it was to keep my ad current.  I said I got that from the letter, I was asking what ad this was.  They then tell me it is for the yellow pages.  I say I already paid for my yellow pages ad.  They then finally tell me it is for the Chicago yellow pages.  I tell them I am not interested as our business is in Milwaukee.  Their response, some people in Milwaukee use the Chicago yellow pages.  I repeat I am not interested.  Their reply, Slam down the phone and hang up on me.  So you try to scam me and then your are rude when I catch you at it.  Jerkwads.

What you do here anyway? Interesting question. This was proposed to me by some lady walking past the board game store I work at. I informed her that we sold board games as well as some card games and war games. She replies, “oh, like Nintendo stuff.” No I say, none of our games are electronic. “Oh, computer stuff?” No, I say again, board games, like Monopoly, with dice and cards and a game board where you move pieces around by hand. “So I can’t play it on the tv?” No, for the third time, just board games. “Oh, that crazy, who do something dumb like that.” Have a nice day, then I return to the inside of my store where people are a little less stupid.