People often ask me how come I don’t post telemarketer theater plays that much anymore. It’s not that I don’t want to. I haven’t gotten bored with doing them or anything like that. The problem is that I just haven’t gotten any in a long time. At least not from a live person that I…
You know what’s sad? Push-pollers. Push pollers just don’t have the right kind of sticktoitness to be really effective. They need to take lessons from the phone scammers who normally call me. They have to work harder and really dig in there and try to convince me. Because this just went poorly. INT. PITTSBURGH HOME…
I need some new scenarios to run phone scammers through for telemarketer theater. What makes them really good is when I can keep them on the phone for a long time. The last couple I’ve tried getting directly to the point with just to see what happens. Here’s the most recent one. CALLER: Hello, this…
I’ve been wondering if the Telemarketing Scammers have been on to me. I haven’t gotten as many calls lately. And when I have they’ve been pretty quick to hang up on me. Here’s the one that happened today. INT. PITTBSBURGH HOME – DAY STEPH is watching TV and eating breakfast as the phone rings. MAV happens…
I know it’s cliche, but I write a lot of things in the shower. Somehow, it’s just a good place to get a lot of ideas sorted out. I don’t necessarily know what I am going to be writing in the shower, but I do have a lot of ideas there. Today, I was planning…
I was working on my computer when I heard line ring in the other room. I yelled for Steph to pick it up, since usually the landline is her mother calling. But Steph looked at the CallerID and said “yeah, I’m not getting that.” I ran in to double check. The Call is from 1-800-000-0000…
3-23-07 (Photo credit: chrismaverick) This is kind of an epilogue to my most recent Telemarketer Theater. So if you haven’t read that yet, you probably should. in any case, SPOILERS and stuff. This is like after the film and after the credits, only instead of Nick Fury coming and asking…