Got the weirdest phone solicitation of my life Saturday morning.
I\u2019m not on any Do Not Call lists, against my principles, but I only occasionally get the stock \u201cimportant message about your mortgage\u201d and \u201cyou\u2019ve won a cruise!\u201d 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\u2019t 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\u2019s a weird area code, doesn\u2019t even list a location (looked it up, turns out to be Las Vegas), and I pick it up, all groggy: \u201cHello?\u201d
It\u2019s this chipper sounds-to-be 30s-40s woman: \u201cHow\u2019s the line?\u201d
\u201cWhat?\u201d
And she responds in a perfectly conversational tone, doesn\u2019t sound like she\u2019s reading from a script or anything.
\u201cSports betting! There\u2019re a lot of college basketball games today\u2026\u201d
I just cut her off \u201cthat\u2019s not my thing\u201d and hang up.
In hindsight must be some bookie drumming up business now that football season\u2019s over, maybe trying to make up from playoff losses or expanding with bowl profits, but it was unlike anything I\u2019d ever heard before.
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