I’m Rude

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The phone rings. I pick it up. “I’m so glad that I caught you at home,” a woman says. “I’ve been trying for weeks to get ahold of you.” That is a lie because I have caller ID and this number had never come up before. “You have earned 6,758 points from staying at our XYZ* hotels.” “That’s fantastic!” I say. “But I’ve never stayed at any of your hotels.” This woman must be hard of hearing because she just jabbers on. “You have been selected from our pool of guests for a trip to the Caribbean.” Since this woman is hard of hearing I’m rude and I hang up on her. How could I be selected from their pool of guests when I have never stayed at their hotel? I had never heard of the hotel chain she mentioned so I knew I had never stayed there. (Besides that I have not stayed at a hotel since the 1990s.) Another thing the woman never said was my name so there is no way for me to know if she dialed the wrong number or if it was a scam. The fact that she did not mention a name pretty well tells me it was a scam. Or at least something that wasn’t entirely legal. And when I said I never stayed at any of their hotels and the woman ignored that fact also said something wasn’t right. When I was a child I was taught not to just hang up on someone because it was rude. But in today’s world sometimes you have to be rude and hang up on people. There are so many people out there that are trying to rope you into scams that in many cases the best thing to do is hang up on them. *XYZ was not the name of the hotel chain. I can’t remember what hotel name was given so XYZ is just letters to indicate the name.