Don't call me.... let's see if it works

After my recent rant about junk calls, I now know about the Telephone Preference Service. Thanks, Anne-Marie Simpson.

For anyone as ignorant as me, it can be found at http://www.mpsonline.org.uk/tps/

Having signed up to that, I trust that it will filter out all the crap. All I will have to be irritated about then is the answerphone itself. I’m increasingly irritated by the tone it is taking.

When there had been no calls it used to say ‘You have NO messages’. Now it says ‘You don’t have ANY messages’ in an even more contemptuous manner. And there’s no way I can respond. It makes you want to track down the person who made the recording and say: ‘Do you really think I’m worried? I couldn’t sodding well care less. I LIKE having no messages actually…’

How pleased I am you called

I have never had much inclination towards violence, but if I could get hold of the gentleman who keeps leaving messages which start ‘Please don’t hang up, this is a public information message’ and goes on to try to flog me a way of cancelling credit card debts I would punch him up the throat.

The most irritating thing about automated messages is the fact that you can’t respond to them. I have heard the actor trying to tell me about how I can get out of my (assumed) debts about two dozen times now, but he will never hear my cheery response. Even so, I can’t resist telling him how I feel about him before I smash the phone down.

Legislation ought to be introduced to force any company putting out junk messages to include the home phone number of the person who has made the recording. That would put a stop to the whole thing pretty fast.