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This evening, I received a call that began with the caller saying "Deputy Sheriff's Association" at the very moment I answered with a simple "Hello". He didn't wait for me to finish speaking that single word and he didn't greet me. He did, however, repeat "Deputy Sheriff's Association" in a tone that said to me "I am calling lots and lots of people including starving students such as you to beg for donations for well-compensated public servants even though your telephone number is on the National Do Not Call Registry". I have received several such calls since having land-line telephone service connected for my home office—Police This and Fire That and Sheriff The Other.
Before I could finish a single sentence explaining that I cannot presently afford to make any donations, the caller hung up. There was no "Thank you for your time", no "Have a nice day", and not even an attempt to guilt-trip or otherwise persuade me as a similar previous caller or two has attempted; the son-of-a-bitch just hung up. That alone makes me somewhat glad that I could not afford a donation tonight; if their telespamming representatives won't even extend basic conversational courtesies, they are very rude indeed and as far as I am concerned, such rude people and their associations do not deserve any kind of support from anyone.
