Mothering Many

The guy from Family Movies called me this week. He always sounds like a recording, and he always starts with
“have we done something to offend you?” He actually called twice. He had called while I was teaching and after I said I was busy, he said it would only take a minute. Umm, no, busy is busy, and this reading lesson won’t wait, so I hung up on him. When I have a new reader, I DO NOT allow those earliest lessons to be interuppted. They are very short, less than 5 minutes some times, but they are foundational, so they are the most important thing for that amount of time. Then, he called at 8:30 in the morning. And while, really, no time is good for a solicitor, that was just over the top. Finally, I told him not to call back, and that yes, he had offended me by calling at that time. I really like the company, I really believe in what they try to do, but………..don’t give them your phone number, ok?

What kills me is that I got on their list because I bought from them. They didn’t buy my name from a list broker like Martin Worldwide, who makes it their business to create lists of people who are known responders to solicitations. No, they got my name because I heard about their product and called them first. And then they called and called, always at a bad time. So, they lose