Are you lonely and need to talk to someone?

Lonely and no one calls you? Here is an easy idea to get some phone calls. My phone doesn't ring much, I don't like talking on the phone. Well that's not true I have been known to talk to someone for hours, but that was in the days before I got sick.

In any event, I got my escrow statement indicating that my mortgage payment was going to go up. I noticed that it was going to be over $1000. This was primarily due to the cost of homeowners insurance going up. I went to my auto insurance company to see what kind of deal I could get having them for homeowners insurance. Somewhat satisfied with their online quote I decided to try a couple other agencies. I did one and came up with a similar quote. So then I tried one of the online quote factories. I was hoping for maybe six quotes online. Well I filled out the forms and expected to get a comparison page with some companies to choose from. BUT NO that is not what happened. I got a page saying agents would contact me. Well cool I would get some emails that I could relax and compare at my leisure.

Whoops, I forgot that I put my phone number on the form. About ten minutes later my phone rang Verizon showed me the number, one I did not know, so I didn't answer it. About two minutes later the phone rang, I looked and it was another number I did not know. For the next hour the phone rang constantly, all with numbers I did not know. Some of them left voice mail. Geez, I could have been gabbing all day to new people.

Rather than listening to the phone ring I got on my bike and went for a ride to the lab to have the vampires suck out blood. I cruised around for a while afterwards and came home to the phone ringing and a bunch of voice mails. I made some popcorn and went out back and read a book, Clive Cussler's "Black Wind", I could still hear the phone ringing in the house. Around six the phone stopped ringing.

It's 9:00AM right now and the phone started ringing at 8:30 this morning. Rather than hearing the ringing any more, well that's not true, my ears ring 24 x 7 anyway, I turned off the ringer on my phone.

Now here is a thought. Do you have a lonely relative? Why not put their number in the phone number box, to spice up their holiday? They will know that you are thinking of them and they can have a little excitement. If you are old like me you might remember Arlo Guthrie and "The Pause of Mister Claus" where he talks about the last guy and calling the FBI for some excitement. I think in the future I will enter 876 5309 for my phone number.

Now to all the insurance agents that sent me a quote via email. I promise to weed through them and pick the ones I like. I also promise to send your quotes to the other agents with your same company that quoted less for the same insurance coverage. I especially like you folks that responded without a quote but promise to give me one, then get one to me a minute later.

For those of you that simply sent your phone number I will simply put your email in the trash. Sadly there is no way to recycle email those electrons are lost forever. You might try recycling them.