Have you been following your state's stay-at-home order? Ours started Sat at 5pm. I know many people who aren't taking it seriously.

Phone sales are soaring especially for old folks.

I have never liked telemarketers. Now I really hate them.

I get a bunch of calls every day. These sales people are fast talking which is tough on an old lady like me with bad hearing. They refuse to answer any questions, they just keep talking. They refuse to even acknowledge that they are selling anything at all; "this is a courtesy call," or "just wanted to let you know that YOU have been selected..." No matter how much you beg them to tell you what product they're selling, they just keep pitching their game. By the time I've hung up on them, whatever I was doing when they called is either destroyed or delayed.

I always wind up feeling angry, humiliated and stupid. Rather than presenting the product so I can decide if I want it, they would rather count on my confusion to trick me into buying it. They believe my bad hearing and senior confusion will allow them to sell it to me easier than any actual value the product may have.

To top it off, because I am an old lady, the products are really depressing, basically involving illness, injury or death. Funeral insurance, medical devices (usually back braces), medical insurance or extra medical insurance. One thing for sure; they've certainly got me out of denial about my mortality.

What more can I say? I dream of a law being passed that would make hunting them down and killing them legal.

And, of course, my favorite comedian is TOM MABE! That guy can really make me laugh.