How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?

[Ed Anger]

Got a call at breakfast time. Gave the phone to one of the twins and told her to tell the man about my little pony.

I just hope that's not a euphemism

No.

It is a real show, and my girls are addicted to it.

[Eddie Teach]

I have learned the hard way that the best way to deal with them is to hang up.  Without fail, all of them are far too long, and the person on the other end of the line will say any blatant lie to keep you on the phone.

That may be the best way, but it's not the most entertaining way, which is I think what Ed is looking for.

[Valmy]

Got a call at breakfast time. Gave the phone to one of the twins and told her to tell the man about my little pony.

If it was a Brony, you just made his day.

[Viking]

Serious answer:  either tell them you WILL vote for the candidate, or tell them you are a dedicated voted for the opposing candidate.  The keep calling because they have you on a list of "undecideds".

I tell them point blank I am not voting for brown. They just won't stop. Nice Ed tried to be polite. Now evil Ed has been awoken.

ah, I get it now, you're trolling US not the callers.

[DGuller]

I have learned the hard way that the best way to deal with them is to hang up.  Without fail, all of them are far too long, and the person on the other end of the line will say any blatant lie to keep you on the phone.

That may be the best way, but it's not the most entertaining way, which is I think what Ed is looking for.

Meh.  I doubt that many people grow up wanting to call people up all the time and interrupt their dinners.  It has to be one of the crappiest jobs you can have.  Somehow that knowledge doesn't get me in the mood to fuck with them.

[Eddie Teach]

I'm sure the people doing it for political campaigns are volunteers.

[Grey Fox]

Retreat is the only option it seems. Tell them you'll vote for their guy.

[CountDeMoney]

I have introduced unrestricted pony warfare.

That's the spirit.  Give all the phone calls to the youngest ones. 

[derspiess]

I'm sure the people doing it for political campaigns are volunteers.

Depends on the campaign.  Some are volunteers and some get paid.  The ones who get paid do not get a lot of money for it, though.

That's the spirit.  Give all the phone calls to the youngest ones. 

Tommy will randomly answer the phone when someone calls and if it's not his mom, my parents or his cousin Jake he hangs up & tells me it was nobody.  So I always have to check the caller ID afterwards.

[CountDeMoney]

Tommy will randomly answer the phone when someone calls and if it's not his mom, my parents or his cousin Jake he hangs up & tells me it was nobody.  So I always have to check the caller ID afterwards.

I used to drive my sister nuts when she was a teenager;  phone would ring, I'd sit there and have a 5 or 10 minute conversation, then hand it off to her because it was one of her teenybopper girlfriends. 

[Eddie Teach]

Were you older or younger?

[CountDeMoney]

Were you older or younger?

Older, of course.  That's the burden big brothers must carry.

[Ed Anger]

Now that I made a thread on it, the number of calls dropped off the cliff.

[Maximus]

 

[Admiral Yi]

Older, of course.  That's the burden big brothers must carry.

Perving out on your little sister's friends is hardly a burden.