One thing I like about being a stay-at-home mom (or a work-at-home mom, if you prefer) is that I don’t have to be bothered by people I don’t want to bother with. Like the ahentes (from house and lot to funeral plot, and everything else in between) who just want a few minutes with you in the office.
They intrude, right? And it’s for that very reason why I abhor telemarketers. Not only do they infringe on my privacy, they waste my time too. I get credit card offers over the phone every single day. And I tell them all I’m not interested and I’d sue them if they called back. They won’t, naturally, but there will always be others.
The worst part is that the intrusion has reached my cell phone.
Let me be more specific.
From +639213794895:
Thank you 4 ur inquiry re CASH LOAN, 1% up to 1.7% interest per mo. Pls. give lndline discuss ko po requirement. 3 to 5 days po proces. BABY
And I replied:
Excuse me? What cash inquiry? Why don’t you give me your landline instead. 2 hours only.
Here’s another from 09103778531:
We offer 30k – 1M CashLoan for emplyd/self-employd@1% up to 1.7% mo. NO COLATERAL nided. Ds s random tx, F ur intrestd pls txt ur name & lndlne f nt dsrgard or save 4 rfrens. Tnx.
My reply:
“cash loan”
“employed”
“collateral”
“needed”
“this”
“is”
“text”
“if”
“you’re”
“interested”
“landline”
“not”
“disregard”
“reference”
“thanks”I CAN SUE YOU.
Haven’t received any similar messages since. But then the last one was only yesterday. 
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