[speaker001:] Wendy how'd you like to start off and
[speaker002:] well um they said talk about um gee oh heavens
[speaker001:] everyday occurrences that
[speaker002:] that annoy you okay I don't mind these phone calls but I hate the uh sales calls
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] but and what about you
[speaker001:] um for an invasion of privacy I feel like uh when I use write a check then they want my driver's license and they write down my number or or when I use my Visa card they want my phone number and they put that into their computer then they can look up yeah and they look up where I live and uh then they mail me stuff and
[speaker002:] they can sell it sure get all sides yep all kinds of demographics just from that info and anymore you know uh you don't have to give out your well you know how they used to ask for if you wrote a check they would ask for your credit card number but they can't do that anymore or at least you're not legally um you know have to give it to them
[speaker001:] you know what uh we have is we've got our credit card number on our uh guarantee card so they have to write down
[speaker002:] what's a guarantee card
[speaker001:] it's a card that says this check is good for up to a hundred bucks to the merchant
[speaker002:] oh I don't I I we don't use that that I know of here
[speaker001:] on ours it's just on the back of our Visa and it says guarantee
[speaker002:] oh uh-huh
[speaker001:] and you might wanna check out your Visa it might have one that on there already
[speaker002:] okay
[speaker001:] uh so do you
[speaker002:] but particularly what I was speaking of are the telemarketing phone calls you know at odd hours that I get yeah
[speaker001:] buy computers
[speaker002:] well and not necessarily computers you know it can be the people sometimes the people are worse than the computers because you can just hang up on the computer but the person you know will do anything to keep you on the line
[speaker001:] yes
[speaker002:] and um you know I I I don't like to be rude to people but I find myself becoming more and more um abrasive because I just don't you know feel like they should be calling me on my own personal private time
[speaker001:] what do you think about that uh caller ID when you call in like on an eight hundred number or something or uh to buy something and then they know who you are and uh where you're calling from and your address and all that and
[speaker002:] well I have to say that you know if you're going to do it then you have to realize the consequences
[speaker001:] but see most people don't know that that information's recorded
[speaker002:] yeah well I I I I suppose that's true but I know that you know whenever you're giving that kind of information out particularly when you're buying something you know your name automatically goes on a list which is sold sold to a hundred other companies
[speaker001:] yep you seem well informed
[speaker002:] well I've I I've studied advertising in college and that um you know that's one of the areas I suppose that we covered but I I I would never do telemarketing as a job I can't stand rejection
[speaker001:] no that's kind of a a bummer I'm looking forward to the time when uh my phone at home can tell me who's calling
[speaker002:] yeah that would be nice
[speaker001:] and then I don't answer it if I don't wanna talk to you
[speaker002:] I suppose the day will come I
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] well any others that you can think of
[speaker001:] we'll see another invasion of privacy uh everyday occurrence I can't
[speaker002:] well I mean unless you go to the extremes like uh people coming up to you I had this lady come to me in the mall and said jeez you look just lovely I just wanted to tell you that by the way I'm a Mary Kay representative and here's my business card can I set you up for a facial and I mean I was shopping for Christmas presents in the mall and I found I found her tactics extremely rude because she was preying on my uh you know uh everybody's self esteem you know gee somebody thinks I'm pretty you know
[speaker001:] sure and gosh they wanna tell me I look great
[speaker002:] that's right by the way here's my business card let me set you up for a facial and get you to spend fifty bucks
[speaker001:] you know as a consumer we have to be wary of all that type of propaganda
[speaker002:] exactly and I was very flattered until she told me she the company she was with
[speaker001:] oh what a bummer that would be a kind of a deflator
[speaker002:] yeah she goes to everybody in the mall and says the same thing so I wasn't too flattered
[speaker001:] let's see I took something back to one of the stores today a Christmas gift and uh I had to show my ID and uh blood type and because I didn't have a sales slip and it was interesting
[speaker002:] oh what a bummer did you even have the tag on the item
[speaker001:] yeah uh uh no
[speaker002:] so they were particularly uh well uncooperative
[speaker001:] they were and uh I guess the time to do it I talked to the with the guys at work is right after Christmas because they're too busy to give you a rush yeah
[speaker002:] they're so swamped they let you get by yeah
[speaker001:] well I don't have anything else to say
[speaker002:] I think we've covered it
[speaker001:] well it's been a pleasure Wendy bye
[speaker002:] and you too bye-bye