Sarah Mlynowski Quotes

So I rang up British Telecom, I said 'I want to report a nuisance caller', he said 'Not you again'.

The do-not-call list puts the responsibility where it should be: on the telemarketers. If they want to make the calls, they should be the ones doing the work to ensure fairness.

I don't get on the phone and prank people and things like that on the phone with people, no.

Telemarketers tell me I sound like Bill Cosby.

I've occasionally wished I had Caller ID. Even telemarketers, I hate to hang up on them. I try to explain I'm not interested, but they have all these canned responses so I end up having to hang up on them anyway.

Recently, I have come to assume that any call to my landline is from a telemarketer or an automated call from Terminex, letting me know that our regularly scheduled pest-extermination service will occur on its regular schedule. So I usually ignore my home phone.

Old-fashioned girl that I am, I still have a landline, though it rarely rings - and when it does, especially without warning, there's rarely anything good on the other end.

Who, other than a crazy person, does anything besides hang up on a robo-call? Any call, any person, anywhere, under any circumstances.

Everyone believes that artificial or prerecorded calls - 'robocalls,' as they're known - are awful. They're intrusive. They're unwanted.

Repeat after me. 'Robocall' is not a bad word.

For too long, Americans have been plagued by unwanted and unlawful robocalls. For too long, they've found unauthorized charges and changes to their phone service on their bills - practices commonly known as 'slamming' and 'cramming.' And for too long, some phone calls that are placed to rural residents have been dropped.

For illegal robocallers, the goal isn't always getting you to answer. Sometimes, it's getting you to call back.

Scammers and spammers use spoofing to disguise their identity, to trick consumers into answering unwanted calls, and to hide from authorities.

Crank-calling people is the oldest bit in the world.

Oh God, I've done telesales. It doesn't get much lower than that, really. That's the job I enjoyed the least.

There is no such thing as a good call at 7 AM. It's been my experience that all calls between the hours of 11 PM and 9 AM are disaster calls.

The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look.

Form follows function straight to hell.

An accident, a random change, in any delicate mechanism can hardly be expected to improve it. Poking a stick into the machinery of one's watch or one's radio set will seldom make it work better.

Noah's wife, who said to Noah, Don't let the elephants watch the rabbits. Never got a dinner!

Most things don't work like they are supposed to work.

Strange is the man who practices his religion.

If you had a jetpack you'd be like I have the shittiest jetpack. Who's your service provider on your jetpack? Did they make the new one? I hate this thing.

There was too much going on here -- too much that strayed from odd all the way over into seriously weird.

I put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed.