[speaker001:] Well, let's see.
[speaker002:] So what,
[speaker001:] As far as I'm,
[speaker002:] So what gets you?
[speaker001:] Well, the thing I think that annoys me the most is, I have, I have young children, a baby in the house and, and inevitably as soon as they're asleep, someone calls on the phone trying to sell me something.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] And I think that, that is probably the most aggravating [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] Uh, you know, it invades my time. I'm the one that pays for the phone. Uh, if I want to buy something, I'll take the initiative and, and go find it, you know. And that just really does [breathing] aggravate me. Uh, what do you think?
[speaker002:] Well, I mean I, that's exactly the kind of thing I would have said. Although in my case it's my wife and I both work, we come home and just as we're preparing dinner or eating dinner
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] the phone rings and it's one solicitation call after another and, you know.
[speaker001:] Your time is, is
[speaker002:] Yeah, it's, it's
[speaker001:] valuable, and,
[speaker002:] like you say, very annoying and, uh, why, why do we let this happen.
[speaker001:] Oh, I, that's, that's interesting. I the, the market seems to just be growing, too. I, I guess enough people are not speaking out. I'm not speaking out, that's for sure. I just get aggravated about it. And,
[speaker002:] Would, would you, I mean if you could legislate something, what would you legislate?
[speaker001:] [Breathing] I really don't know. I'm, I'm not into [breathing], uh, heavy government legislate-, legislating of a lot of different areas, but I [breathing], I don't know. I just, I do particularly find it annoying. Uh, [NOISE] [lipsmack] I'm really not sure. I haven't given that a lot of thought if, if it should, should go, you know *slash error
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] to be,
[speaker002:] It, it seems, it seems to me that we should have the ability to designate with the phone company that we don't want to receive calls like that. *sv
[speaker001:] Well, that, yeah, that might,
[speaker002:] And the people making these calls would be obliged to c-, compare
[speaker001:] Identify themselves, yeah.
[speaker002:] the, their lists
[speaker001:] Right.
[speaker002:] that they're going to call against this list of people who don't want to be called.
[speaker001:] Well, that would be a good
[speaker002:] Uh,
[speaker001:] an interesting way, yeah.
[speaker002:] And, that, that way, those who want it can have it and those who don't want it, don't have to have it.
[speaker001:] Right.
[speaker002:] Sort of like an unlisted number where you haven't gone to the trouble of enlisting yourself.
[speaker001:] Right, you're,
[speaker002:] Except even unlisted numbers aren't safe now because they have these things just sort of dial through all the numbers.
[speaker001:] Oh, is that right? Oh, that's interesting.
[speaker002:] Uh, automatically and,
[speaker001:] And they just get everybody.
[speaker002:] Right.
[speaker001:] Oh, boy. Well, I, I do wish that it would stop on my end
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] because it, it seems to happen at the worst possible moments. And I, I guess the next one is, is door-to-door
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] solicitors. I don't mind the children when they're selling things for school. I have kids and, you know, that's just kind [breathing] of
[speaker002:] Yeah [faint].
[speaker001:] part of it but when it's adults selling a variety of things and especially when men arrive at about ten o'clock in the morning
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] uh, that really, it makes you not feel particularly safe
[speaker002:] Yes.
[speaker001:] and, it's annoying as well.
[speaker002:] And these, and these people may in fact be just looking to s-, find an unoccupied house to rob.
[speaker001:] Right, you just, you really don't know, so I, I find myself being a l-, a bit abrupt and a little bit ruder than [breathing] than I might normally be
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] but, I do feel like it's a, an invasion of my space.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] And, uh,
[speaker002:] What about these telephone callers. Sometimes they're door-to-door but usually they're telephone callers who, who want you to basically help them fill out a questionnaire. *two utts
[speaker001:] I've never quite understood the purpose of that. Yeah, I, uh,
[speaker002:] Well, I think these people were hired by, from, from different sources.
[speaker001:] Just be-,
[speaker002:] Uh, with, you know, and so, therefore, there's no one answer. But, but, yeah sometimes it's a market sur-, basically it's a market survey
[speaker001:] Just a survey.
[speaker002:] but they never say who, who they're really working for or what [throat clearing], you know, what
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] what, what questions are, you know,
[speaker001:] There have been a couple of times when the, the, uh, whatever the subject was, I guess caught my interest and I went along with it and then there have been several times when I just said, well, I just really don't have the time, you know
[speaker002:] Yeah [faint].
[speaker001:] to deal with it at that moment.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] But, uh, I don't get too many of those.
[speaker002:] Yeah [faint].
[speaker001:] I've had just a few.
[speaker002:] Yeah [faint].
[speaker001:] Uh, generally someone's trying to sell me something or,
[speaker002:] Right, well, and sometimes that's, this is just the lead in to a sales pitch
[speaker001:] Right, right.
[speaker002:] too. Other times [baby crying] it's, you know, wasting your time
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] to collect the data they want for their [LAUGHTER]
[speaker001:] Right.
[speaker002:] marketing purpose. For which, if they would just pay me enough money
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] I would be willing to consider.
[speaker001:] That's right.
[speaker002:] But, but a dollar isn't it, you know, it's,
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER] Oh.
[speaker002:] Uh, and I also sort of worry that, you know, that sometimes people giveaway personal information. Uh, when, [baby crying] when the call comes and, and they, uh, you know, sort of seductive, to, you know, somebody is asking me my opinion on all of these things, and so I start answering and then you, you know, you go down a path
[speaker001:] Right.
[speaker002:] uh, and you don't know where it's going to end.
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] Uh, *slash error
[speaker001:] Well, we,
[speaker002:] In fact, you don't even know what you've eventually, you know, the totality of what you've revealed *sv and, you know, *slash error
[speaker001:] That's true.
[speaker002:] This isn't, you know, prob-, most likely not to, going to be used against you, but it could and,
[speaker001:] Yeah, you just never know, I guess.
[speaker002:] And that seems to be something that should, should really be outlawed.
[speaker001:] That, yeah, I, I,
[speaker002:] Because it's subject to abuse and it,
[speaker001:] Asking for information is, is, I can't really see that, I think they ought to, if, if nothing else, they ought to spend money for a postage stamp and, you know, when it arrives at your house, oh, I,