Snapshot: Sucker

I feel like I've been getting an above average number of calls from people trying to sell me things. I usually do not answer for numbers not attached to a contact but the problem is that I don't often save new contacts and I do not back my phone up to 'the cloud' because my phone says it won't do it and I don't care enough to figure out the reason why or how to make it. I also do not know what a cloud is.

Last week, Alex and I were driving home from school. A 972 number popped up and after letting it ring 3 times and questioning whether I knew the number or not, I answered it thinking it could be a doctor or school person.
It was not. It was the best cold caller the Texas State Trooper Association had on the job that afternoon. He was an older fella which automatically made my heart soften because seeing old people working makes me sad and uncomfortable. He could have been working by choice to stay busy in his comfortable retirement (and he could have been a 30 year old heavy smoker) but he could have also been the guy I'll see on Facebook in a week who gets a $10,000 check from Ellen because he's struggling and his friends and co-workers report that he's nicest man ever. And actually, I have no idea how sales calling works, but something about it activated my Catholic/Asian/White guilt so I figured that meant something...

I tried to sound as not annoyed as possible and he eventually got me to pledge a $25 donation. I talked him down from $100.  (He actually talked me up from $0)
Before hanging up, for dramatics, he asked me two questions: 1. Did I think I would be able to handle keeping my promise to pledge $25 to such a fine association and 2. I forgot because I was so offended he didn't think I would keep a promise.

It wasn't without passive aggressiveness though.
I wasn't even curious enough to ask what the money goes toward. I probably just supported late term abortion or giving kids crack cocaine. Always educate yourself, but it's forgiven if it's an unexpected nuisance at the end of a long day.

I remained on the sucker list that day.
Don't answer your phones for the unknown.
(Or grow a fu-king spine)