Reminds me of when I used to mess with telemarketers. My goal was to see how long I could get them to stay on the phone, thinking that the more of their time I

Reminds me of when I used to mess with telemarketers. My goal was to see how long I could get them to stay on the phone, thinking that the more of their time I wasted the less profitable telemarketing would be (how much of an affect could one person really have though?). I was very successful with a variety of techniques and it turned into a fun game. I almost regret having changed my number, no longer getting these calls now. One good one was when I had this lady first describe her work environment, finding out she was working with her fiance. I had her describe him and their relationship and somehow got her talking about her willingness to engage in a threesome. After almost 15 minutes she politely told me that she had to go, being at work and all. Maybe 10 minutes later her supposed fiance called me back asking why I was talking 'rubbish' to his girlfriend. I talked with him for a while and got him to tell me about their relationship, that they had been engaged for 5 years, got engaged when she was 15! He started describing her physically but finally hung up when I tried to get him to tell me how much she weighed (I was really curious after he told me she was 5'4"). That one was during work and by the end of the conversation I had the entire office sitting around listening. Another time I was walking home when I received a free satellite tv installation offer (during the recorded intro to these calls, before pressing '1' to speak to someone, is the best time to prepare what you're going to say). When the guy came on the line I got him to describe in as much detail as he was willing the contents of each of the porn channels that was included in the service. It's fun to imagine what their going through on their end of the call (sometimes I would get them to yell into the phone claiming I could barely hear them). I think it's really entertaining when they get mad at me for wasting their time! This usually happens when it's a get-out-of-debt scammer. I answer all their questions and they get excited when they hear my monthly credit card bill (never bothering to find out that I pay off the entire balance each month) but then get real upset when I try to convince them that I'm not in need of their 'services'. Half the time they don't believe me, trying to 'comfort' me by telling me that it's ok to be in financial distress, everyone is in debt and are experiencing tough times right now. I tried to think of ways to promote this kind of behavior, figuring if one in ten of their calls were to people like me then telemarketing would be much less profitable, but I never tried to follow through with anything. Now that I don't get these calls anymore I kind of miss it. Over the years I became much more comfortable, confident and competent dealing with telemarketers in this way.