Call from Barb Taylor

We have a land line telephone here in Florida.  We don’t have cell phones.  Barb is always complaining about how much it costs for the phone and we almost never use it.  Barb does all her communication with her Pickleball friends by email, iMessage, or facebook message.  It is the same with the girls back home in Canada even though we pay $5 a month for unlimited North American calling.  I get the occasional call from people in the park to come over and help them with their computers or from my softball coach about any changes to the schedule because of rainouts, etc.

Mostly we get crank calls or sales calls.  These calls can get Barb very angry.  Fortunately, for them, the callers are usually robots.  So they don’t hear her response to their messages.

I usually don’t answer the phone and let it go to the answering machine.  Then the robo calls usually don’t leave messages and if anyone really wants to get in touch with us they will leave a message.

We also have “call display” which Barb finds useful to some extent.  However, most of the time the only information it gives is the State the call is from.

Today, she got a call from Barb Taylor.  She found that a really novel way to get us to answer the phone but of course it was just a robo call.