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The Do Not Call Registry notwithstanding, both my husband
and I get too many robocalls. Because many of the seniors in our community have
kept their out-of-state phone numbers, we can’t always ignore calls from
numbers we don’t recognize. Oh yes we could let it go to voicemail, but then we
have to go and listen to the voicemail and clear it out. So we answer the
calls, listen to the beginning of the spiel.
We get offers of free trips, calls to sell us things like health
insurance, new windows for our home, and car repair coverage. We ain’t
interested. Then there are those that tell us they are from "your credit card
company." Oh, really? Ain’t interested. We end the call.
But yesterday morning there came a call that was amazing. It was
an 800 number. That was really unusual, but when I flipped open my phone and
listened (yes, Warren Buffet and I still have flip phones) I heard a woman
speaking Chinese. Chinese? Mandarin, or Cantonese, I couldn’t tell you, but the
inflection made me guess it was Chinese. I can count from one to ten in
Chinese, but that’s just something I learned, and probably remembered
incorrectly, from childhood.
Why would we be getting robocalls in Chinese? Anyway, it’s all Greek to me.
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