What is pissing you off this time?

[Gravdigr]

Don't work around here.

Rock flew off the rock quarry truck, and dinged the parents' Park Avenue windshield real good. The windshield with the rain detection and the this and the that, and the little different-looking place for the HUD to shine on...

The quarry ppl said sorry about your luck.

$700+. Used. Safelite guy found him one, with all the plugs/wires still attached, and installed it for $450.

Safelite guy rocks.

[orthodoc]

Wow, good news for sure, Glinda! We've had multiple windshields destroyed by trucks flinging debris and the companies wouldn't touch it. They aren't compelled to, so good for your gravel company.

Agree with Grav, the Safelite people are fantastic - have helped us out a few times.

[xoxoxoBruce]

When the phone rings I look at the caller ID and If I don't know who it is I don't answer. Today it reads CVS Pharmacy so I answered. A recorded message from "Microsoft" saying my PC is infected and don't use it before I call a phone number. The motherfuckers are pranking the caller ID now.

[Carruthers]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

When the phone rings I look at the caller ID and If I don't know who it is I don't answer. Today it reads CVS Pharmacy so I answered. A recorded message from "Microsoft" saying my PC is infected and don't use it before I call a phone number. The motherfuckers are pranking the caller ID now.

Slight UK variation on the theme...

These scam calls send a false number but do not usually clone a legitimate number.
A quick internet search usually reveals more information.

However, recently I have found that searches increasingly result in a nil return.
I have formed the distinct impression that they generate a false number for each call.

A grade one pain in the arse.

[limey]

Originally Posted by Carruthers

Slight UK variation on the theme...

These scam calls send a false number but do not usually clone a legitimate number.
A quick internet search usually reveals more information.

However, recently I have found that searches increasingly result in a nil return.
I have formed the distinct impression that they generate a false number for each call.

A grade one pain in the arse.

Carruthers, buy a phone with BT Call Guardian on it (you don't have to have a BT contract). You'll never look back.

Sent by magick

[Carruthers]

Originally Posted by limey

Carruthers, buy a phone with BT Call Guardian on it (you don't have to have a BT contract). You'll never look back.

Sent by magick

Thank you! I shall investigate further and forthwith!

After somebody reversed into my car and put a large crease in the backdoor, I was plagued for months by claims handling firms.

One firm spoofed numbers from around the UK and one call appeared to come from a very remote location in the Highlands.

However, I noticed that the last three digits were always the same no matter where the call was purportedly from.

I believe that the firm was finally put out of business.

Found it...

A Bolton-based personal injuries claims management company has gone into liquidation after being fined £80,000 by a government watchdog for plaguing householders with nuisance calls.

In a deluge of consumer complaints about Direct Assist – which offers access to solicitors for claims – 801 concerns were registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office and the Telephone Preference Service between January 2013 and July 2014.

Every single complaint came from individuals registered with the TPS – an opt out register from unsolicited sales or marketing calls – and who had not given permission for the company to call them.

One household reported being called 470 times by the company, while another was told by Direct Assist that they were likely to be called for three years until they made a claim, despite repeated requests for their details to be removed.

Link

[Gravdigr]

They say my Windows license is about to expire, but, they can renew it for me.

Just get my credit card, and....

[xoxoxoBruce]

I've gotten a bunch of calls where it says Microsoft and didn't answer because I knew it was a scam. But now they're pranking the caller ID I can't count on it.

[Clodfobble]

For a while around here they were cloning real numbers, and I kept getting calls from people saying, "Yeah, I missed a call from this number?" and then I'd have to explain cloning and some of them would just keep insisting that I had personally called them and... didn't want to admit it for some reason? Once my sister-in-law got a cloned number that was, by complete coincidence, my actual number! Her cellphone filled in the contact info and told her it was me, so she was gobsmacked when a recording started telling her about debt reconciliation.

[BigV]

Not pissed off today, just drained of my ability to give a shit.

I understand important things are important...

No feelings like that today. Not angry or upset, just empty.

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by BigV

Not pissed off today, just drained of my ability to give a shit.

I understand important things are important...

No feelings like that today. Not angry or upset, just empty.

Goddamn, I hate trying find the smilie I'm looking for.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

Goddamn, I hate trying find the smilie I'm looking for.

I appreciate that man. Thank you.

I woke up feeling this way, it was unpleasant. I found out later this day that my Uncle G died that night. He's my favorite Uncle, we had a great relationship, I loved him very much. He..

listen. I find myself stumbling over the language. shifting to the past tense each time is like another little stab.

He lived in Florida. I am not going to be able to make it to the service.

It's ok. We talked frequently and we ended every call with I love you. I know he loved me. I know he knew I loved him. That part's not in question. The process, I mean the sequence of events .. why is this even something I'm thinking about? It was a surprise. He wasn't that old "just" 70.

I don't know.


Kiss and love your family. Don't delay.

[Glinda]

Originally Posted by BigV

I appreciate that man. Thank you.

I woke up feeling this way, it was unpleasant. I found out later this day that my Uncle G died that night. He's my favorite Uncle, we had a great relationship, I loved him very much. He..

listen. I find myself stumbling over the language. shifting to the past tense each time is like another little stab.

He lived in Florida. I am not going to be able to make it to the service.

It's ok. We talked frequently and we ended every call with I love you. I know he loved me. I know he knew I loved him. That part's not in question. The process, I mean the sequence of events .. why is this even something I'm thinking about? It was a surprise. He wasn't that old "just" 70.

I don't know.


Kiss and love your family. Don't delay.

Hear hear.

Sorry, Big V. It's a cruel fact of life that, the older we get, the more people we lose.

It sucks, man.

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by BigV

We talked frequently and we ended every call with I love you. I know he loved me. I know he knew I loved him. That part's not in question.

The last words my grandmother and I spoke to each other were "I love you." I can't begin to tell you how many times that fact gave some comfort.

Invaluable.

And now I'm a wet eyed drunk.

So sorry for your loss, V.

[Gravdigr]

Every day I get a call(s) from a number that comes back to Southern New Hampshire University. Somehow I'm a-thinkin' that ain't Southern New Hampshire University.

They start at about five minutes after 8 (in the am). I finally saved the number as a contact and then I gave it its own ringtone.

A very quiet ringtone.