Noon-Air wrote:

"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
...

That sounds like a local HVAC company that called me 35 times in one
week, insisting that I "Needed" their "Central air tune-up special" I
told them the fist 34 times that I didn't even have a window air
conditioner, let alone a central air system and not to call me and tie
up my business phone line again. The last time she called, I asked her
how many phone lines they had. The woman wanted to know why, so I told
her that if I got one more call that I was going to contact a lot of
people to have them make repeated calls about their services, then to
have them come out to give a price on a new central air system before
telling them they had changed their minds. She yelled that it was
harassment. I laughed and told her, "Now you know how I feel!", and
hung up. They never called me back.

Sorry you got caught in the telemarketing loop.... I only do mail-outs....
and even then at the most only once a month.... The only time I call is the
the night before a scheduled appointment, and again when I am enroute. There
used to be an HVAC company here that did the same telemarketing routine that
you got... their agreements were'nt worth the paper they were written on,
and they had done more damage to the folks systems than they repaired. I
gained a lot of customers from them. FWIW, I have *never* done a "tune-up"
special..... Thats a real good way to end up on Dateline, or 60 Minutes.
:-)


I wasn't trying to imply you were that bad, it just reminded me of
some of the low lifes around here who change their business name more
often than they replace their trucks. I grew up in Ohio where MOST
trades people took a lot of pride in their work. I now live in Florida
and I have NEVER seen one good drywall job. My dad and step mom bought
a new home two years ago. The *******s sold them a heat pump, and
installed central air with heat strips but no heat pump, before they
disappeared.


I have a firm rule: I NEVER do business with any telemarketer.
Everyone in my subdivision got a letter for a realtor informing them
that their property had gone up 37,000 in the past year, and claiming to
have been in business for 25 years. I have access to the county's
property database, and not one home in the subdivision had gone up that
much, except one that was replaced after the hurricanes the year before.
Like most of the homes here, my property had gone up less than $2,000.
I checked out the "Realtor" to find that he didn't even have a listed
telephone the year before. I should have turned him over to the state
for fraud.


You only have *ONE* DD214?? I have 4 of them... did 22 years in the US Coast
Guard. I just hung around until it wasn't no fun no more :-)


I only did one tour in the US Army in the early '70s. They were
phasing out my MOS, and hiring civilians. I was offered a civil service
job at Ft Rucker, but I turned it down. My MOS was "TV Equipment
Repairman", which meant that I was a broadcast engineer for AFRTS. As
far as having fun, I nearly caused a riot at Ft Greely Alaska, when I
transmitted out station ID in color on a completely monochrome
facility. I couldn't let the base information officer get away with
telling me, and everyone else that it was impossible to use anything at
the station for color. To add insult to injury, I did it at 6:00 PM, at
the start of our live newscast to make sure that the maximum number of
people would see it before I hid the evidence. NEVER tell the engineer
what he can do! ;-)


The sig file is there to be in the face of a moron who has been
stalking me on line for some time, and a couple idiots who don't think
much of the US military, and veterans in general.

BTW, the quarterly memorial for Veterans who have died in marion
County Florida in the past quarter is this morning, but I'm not well
enough to attend.


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida