stephanie is: 
tired…
we have been busy today. we went out and bought our washer and dryer. they were much cheaper because we bought them at sears instead of paying $1600 for the ones that we could get with the house. and i bought danny a power tool set. we went to the house and measured all the windows so that we can buy blinds from home depot. we can’t afford to have those blind place come do it. for lunch i had a burrito (rice, black bean salsa, and guac). it was yummies.
i had a terrible headache when we got home so i took a nap for a while. a dumb discover card person called me trying to get me to buy something. all my new credit card people call me several times a week. bleh. i was cranky and kept telling him i wasn’t interested. at one point i shook the phone and growled and when i put it back to my ear he was like “um hello? you still there?” i told him at the end “no thank you i don’t want it” and he was like “what?? why not???” grr. i said “i just don’t want it. no thank you.” then he caught himself and gave me the number to call if i come to my senses.
cooking dinner now. oriental rice and a veggie mix. i can’t eat much of the veggies cause broccolli is mixed in and i am super allergic to it. last time i ate too many of those tiny broccolli poops that were floating in the sauce and i spent an hour after dinner in the bathroom 🙁
I tell them politely, Please remove me from your list. If they respond negatively, I simply hang up the phone.
At first I thought this was rude, but after about 2-4 calls per night, I no longer feel that way.
Yes, this is what you should do. They’re used to this and they have a take-me-off-your-list speech prepared. They’ll tell you it’ll take 4-6 weeks, but ultimately you won’t get any more calls.
Hanging up quickly is a kindness
If there’s no chance you’re going to respond to a telephone solicitation, being polite is not really being polite in my view — the sooner you’re off the phone the sooner they’re bugging someone else (and maybe, if they’re lucky and somebody’s naive, they actually sell something).
When I get a call like that, I hear just enough to determine it’s a telemarketing call, and then I say “not interested” and hang up immediately. I don’t even wait to find out what kind of telemarketing it is — as soon as I can tell it’s telemarketing or a survey of any kind, the phone goes down: e.g. “This is XX Credit Card…” “not interested”
It’s a kindness, actually. Unless your object is to delay the torture of the next number in the phone book…
I realize how annoying telemarketers are, but I have respect for them since I worked as one for awhile. I’m not saying I liked it, but I was just trying to earn a living like everyone else. So please be nice to those poor telemarketers – they’re people too. No reason to get rude with them.