who's there

On Halloween, when the doorbell rings you can check to see who it is (young kids, tick or treaters for UNICEF, parents holding their small kids on their first Halloween or large groups of surly teens) and decide if you want to answer. When the phone rings you have less foresight.

Which is why, even before the election moves into the final phase we have decided to simply just not answer our phone and let the machine pick it up. Partly because the phone is on the other side of the house and partly because most of the time it is simply not a call that we want to answer. The most annoying was the robocalls that would leave voice mail on my mobile phone. There was a number at the end of the call supposedly to opt out of receiving more of these calls but a check of the leading site where you can Report Annoying Callers showed that they unwilling to do so.

The calls did stop after about a month or so, I believe as a testament to all the users comments about calls from certain number. Even before they did stop it was comforting knowing that other users had similar calls from that number.

If you get a sales call or a wrong number, you owe it to everyone to log it at reportphonenumbers.com and together we can make a ringing phone something worth paying attention to.