Dead grandma qualifies for picture phone! Yay!

[Tria]

a bit off topic this is, but......once my mom got a telemarketing call for one of her cats.

Santos L Helper. *Offers points for reference*

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Santos L Helper. *Offers points for reference*

It's Santos L. Halper.

Please do not try to out-Simpson me.

[protege]

MY father-in-law has been gone for sixteen years and we still get mail for him. The weirdest is some life insurance company who keeps offering him a second chance(to buy coverage). Yeah, I was definitely weirded out the first time one of those came in the mail!

Now that's just messed up

My grandfather died in '89, and Grandma's still getting mail for him, along with phone calls from a place rhyming with "Tears" usually about aluminum siding. Not as much as she used to get, mainly because she moved last year. But still.

Sorry for your loss, Nephy.

[BookstoreEscapee]

a bit off topic this is, but......once my mom got a telemarketing call for one of her cats.

For some reason this reminds me of the Gilmore Girls episode where Lorelei collects all the catalogs and whatnot in the house and calls to take her name off the mailing lists. They all have different, crazy names that she made up just to see what kind of stuff she'd get to that name lol

[mariamousie1]

EW: Hello and how are you?
Me: Not all that great.
EW: Well that's great and fabulous!

What??

I'm sorry you had to go through with talking to this woman in such a stressful time.

[wagegoth]

I'm sorry, Nephy. My grandmother passed away in January. If I had gotten that kind of call I think I probably would have burst her ear drums with my screams.

Kinda off topic: Many years ago while temping, I was doing callbacks of people who had sent in short application cards for credit cards. Just a year before I'd lost my first husband, so I was still having my own issues. Twice in the first week, I got the spouses of people who had applied and just died. One man started raising his voice, saying, "Is this some kind of joke? Who are you? Why are you calling for my wife? She's dead. This isn't funny." I apologized profusely, definitely not the Sprint bitch, but I was so upset with those calls and what I had gone through that I ended up leaving the assignment.

[blas]

I really don't understand why that call lasted as long as it did. Usually when you tell a telemarketer or rep on the phone "This person is deceased", that should be the end of it. It'd be a nice courtesy to say "My condolenses, have a good day, goodbye". I can't believe that woman kept going! "But she's STILL eligible!"

My head hurts now. Maybe she's done this for so long she's indifferent to things people say.

Hell, my grandpa died in 1990 and my grandmother lived in the same house until this last spring. She kept getting mail for him. Way to piss off an old lady folks. I hope it makes you feel really big and bad, knowing you have been making an old lady cry since 1990. Assholes.

[Becks]

A woman I used to work with has her phone still listed in her deceased husband's name.

Why?

Because telemarketers call asking for HIM. She gives them what-for.

She's evil. I love her.

[protege]

Somewhat along those lines...shortly after my grandfather died, the phone listing had his name as "Albert." From then on, whenever someone asked for "Albert," we always knew it was a telemarketer. Just about everyone called him "Ab" or "Abby."

[Andara Bledin]

It's obvious from the first response that the Sprint lady wasn't even remotely listening to the responses she was receiving.

^-.-^