Email unless I'm really close to them, and want to talk. Most of the no-message calls, maybe 99% that I've found tend to be telemarketers or wrong-number collection agencies anyway.
I think you're probably right about the telemarketer/wrong number thing. But you'd think, after calling the same number six dozen times and always getting the same answering machine message, you could figure out that you'd either dialed wrong, or I really don't want to talk to you, so go away already. The thing that irritates me about one particular number that keeps showing up is that I'm pretty sure it's my Citicard account. At one point, because there'd been an absolute blizzard of calls by them, they'd finally worked my last nerve, so I picked up to confirm who it was. The guy on the other end (whodathunk, it was Citicard) was like "Oh...so do you want me to take you off our call list?"
*Headdesk*
And I'm totally current on my account. They call solely for the purpose of trying to sell me "credit insurance" or "other services we provide".
Yah but I think the repeat ones are computer dialled, then the "person" answers in time to speak to you or leave a message on the machine, then if they don't put anything in their little computer log it keeps dialling and you get a different knob (or person) each time. That's been my theory and sometimes experience. The only thing in collections are my student loans and at the 7 year mark in June they don't call anymore. Just the 'other' annoying non people.
You too, hunh? I find e-mail safer, partly so I can think through my answer, but partly so I can think through what I'm responding to and make sure I'm understanding it properly. Apparently, I miss signals and took forever to understand certain basic patterns of thinking that a lot of people take for granted. Probably the bipolar.
The last couple of years, though, I've been doing the can't figure out the word thing. So frustrating -- I'll want the word "respect," for instance, but although I can come up with, "Starts with 'r' and sounds like 'inspect,'" I just can't get a grip on the word. And sometimes in conversation I'll know the word -- I can even see it in front of me -- but it's as though there's a short-circuit between my brain and my mouth. I don't know whether that's the bipolar, the meds, or something completely unrelated, but for someone who has had the world of words on a string for as long as I can remember, it's terribly frustrating.
That's exactly what happens to me, frequently. I can see the word in my mind's eye, but somehow it gets "lost in translation" between my mind and my mouth--I literally can't say the word right away. Could be the hydrocephalus, could be the 17 brain surgeries, could be the meds, could be a combination of all of the above...who knows?
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*Headdesk*
And I'm totally current on my account. They call solely for the purpose of trying to sell me "credit insurance" or "other services we provide".
Grr!
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The last couple of years, though, I've been doing the can't figure out the word thing. So frustrating -- I'll want the word "respect," for instance, but although I can come up with, "Starts with 'r' and sounds like 'inspect,'" I just can't get a grip on the word. And sometimes in conversation I'll know the word -- I can even see it in front of me -- but it's as though there's a short-circuit between my brain and my mouth. I don't know whether that's the bipolar, the meds, or something completely unrelated, but for someone who has had the world of words on a string for as long as I can remember, it's terribly frustrating.
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*Shrug*
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