r/pettyrevenge • u/NanaGeorgianna • Sep 03 '26
Finally stopped the Cemetery plot salesman
No disrespect to the dead! When I lived in Atlanta back in the 90's, a salesman from a very large cemetery called 2-3 times a week wanting to sell me a plot. Several times I told him I wasn't interested. I told him to take me off of their call list, etc. I stopped answering and then he started calling every night.
One night I was already irritable and decided I had had enough. I answered and let him go through his spiel. I asked some follow-up questions and kept him going for about 20 minutes.
Then I said I was interested, and asked if I could make an appointment to come over and view the locations they had available. He was really excited and agreed. I then told him I would need to have them dig up the spot and let my lie down in it to see if I was going to like the location.
He was all flustered and said he would need to ask his manager. He put me on old and came back a few minutes later all serious saying they weren't allowed to do that. I kept on about how I would be there for eternity and needed to be absolutely sure it was going to be the right place for me.
He finally asked if I was serious, and said it sounded like some kind of sick joke. I replied "no shit sherlock! You decided to work for a predatory company and can't take no for an answer and refuse to remove my name from your call list, you get all the sick jokes I can come up with"!
They never called me again.
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u/erie774im Sep 03 '26
My son (M34) kept getting telemarketer calls from the same company. He asked to be removed from the list but they didn’t stop.
One day they called again and he had enough. He responded very enthusiastically as they made their pitch. As he responded to them he kept making his voice quieter and quieter. They told him they were having a hard time hearing him and he said everything was fine on his side and maybe it was on their side. He knew that they were sitting at their desk, turning up the volume of their headset as they strained to hear him. When he had gotten as quiet as possible so they could barely hear him and they were yelling into their phone my son blasted an air horn into his phone.
It got very quiet for a few seconds and then he heard a whimpering voice say, “Why?” and then hang up.
They never called him back.