> > > I find several things surprising about "Ann", the volunteer:
> >
> > Another, of course, is the tragic fact that such a
> >harmless moment of frivolity bothers her so much.
> >Sad, really.
>
> I gotta figure if my job was to randomly call people who probably don't want to listen to what I have to say, who often hang up on me before I can finish what I have to say, and who often aren't even home, making it so I have to listen to hundreds of "clever" answering machine messages, I'd probably hate the world as much as this woman apparently does. To make it worse, she claims to actually believe in what she's doing and wants to get the word out, so it's probably even more frustrating.
>
> Still pretty funny, though.
>
> -- Dave

My son used to tell them to get a real job, and then hang up. But we aren't troubled by telemarketers anymore, thanks to the do-not-call list.
Howard