It seems my phone doesn’t ring until I am either sitting down to eat my dinner, or getting settled to watch my favorite TV show.  I have tried answering and politely saying it’s a bad time, we are just sitting down to dinner.  I wonder what makes people take that kind of job in the first place.  If they are not trying to sell you something, they are taking a survey that will only take 7 minutes of my time, according to them.  We even had one who wanted to know if we had any bankruptcy questions that they could help me with.  Telemarketers can be real insistent people.  I try not to be rude because I understand, or try to anyway, that everyone is entitled to make a living.  But, it’s time for us to eat dinner!  Don’t they understand this?  It’s even worse when you get up to answer the phone, after just sitting down and picking up that fork full of food, and there is a recording on the other end asking you to please hold for an important message, and then you are serenaded with elevator music.  So, what I have been forced to do is simply unplug the phone!