Got the weirdest phone solicitation of my life Saturday morning.

I’m not on any Do Not Call lists, against my principles, but I only occasionally get the stock “important message about your mortgage” and “you’ve won a cruise!” recordings, more often dead air where some robocaller realized it didn’t have anyone free to patch through. Most of my weird calls are for a woman named Tuesday who used to have my number down in LA and apparently left a bunch of debts - first day I had the number I got some downright thuggish guys cursing me out, since then just professional collectors, every so often her debt must get sold onto someone else ‘cause I have to tell a new wave that she hasn’t had the number for years.

Also for a while I was constantly getting shit from the DNC since I donated like $25 to Obama in the '08 primary, not making that mistake again.

This one though. It was 9:30 in the morning, I was asleep, phone starts ringing on the floor next to the bed. It’s a weird area code, doesn’t even list a location (looked it up, turns out to be Las Vegas), and I pick it up, all groggy: “Hello?”

It’s this chipper sounds-to-be 30s-40s woman: “How’s the line?”

“What?”

And she responds in a perfectly conversational tone, doesn’t sound like she’s reading from a script or anything.

“Sports betting! There’re a lot of college basketball games today…”

I just cut her off “that’s not my thing” and hang up.

In hindsight must be some bookie drumming up business now that football season’s over, maybe trying to make up from playoff losses or expanding with bowl profits, but it was unlike anything I’d ever heard before.