A telemarketer called me the other day. I was politely trying to ask to be taken off the list. She talked over me. Nobody hears the other when both people are talking, so I was forced to say "Shut up. Shut up." She shut her mouth and let me talk.

I was trying to be nice and polite. I really was. But sometimes you have to be nasty.

The fraudster who was bugging me earlier this year still calls occasionally. Usually they are TRIGGERED and hang up when I ask the name of the company. Once I actually got someone to stay on the line with me after I asked that question. He was TRIGGERED and hung up on me when I asked for the address of the company.

If you won't even answer these basic questions, then you are almost certainly a criminal trying to steal from me.