Daily Cascade

Days of the Week and Scammers of the Elderly

Prompt:
James A. Murphy says, “It's not that we spend five days looking forward to just two. It's that most people do what they enjoy most on those two days. Imagine living a life where everyday are your Saturdays and Sundays. Make everyday your weekend. Make everyday a play-day…"

What day of the week do you accomplish the most? If you're retired do you still plan activities for the weekend? Would you be happy with every day as a play day?

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Let me just answer the questions first.
What day of the week do you accomplish the most?
Every day, depending on the distractions and unplanned anything.
If you're retired do you still plan activities for the weekend?
No, not if I can help it.
Would you be happy with every day as a play day?
It depends on what one thinks of as being a "play day." In my case, since I am writing in my blog everyday and doing other things I like in addition to things that need to be done, every day is a play day.

As to the quote, I don't really like the term play-day because it gives the impression of being lazy and useless. But I do play, not like a kid, but in my own terms and in my own way. Plus, I have a way of looking at most chores as if I am playing.

So, now, let's look at what bugs me the most. It is the stupid scammer calls on the house phone with AT&T. I have no way of stopping those except for immediately deleting them. And they usually show up as "unknown" on the phone's display. I have no such problem with Comcast with which I have my cell-phone. Many years ago, I had my cell with AT&T, also. Guess what made me go to Comcast!

The house phone or the landline, we had it wired specially, several years ago, with AT&T, so each room could have a phone. And that has been quite convenient, but nowadays, I am thinking of getting rid of it, and no more AT&T, because, especially during the Medicare application months, the phones rang nonstop. Except on Sundays.

Even today, a Saturday at midday, with the Medicare application time now history, I already received four calls from that "unknown", I bet trying to sell me something or hoodwink me into something! "Hello, this is Olivia!" Truth is, I never met that Olivia or her co-workers-in-crime as Jean, Mary, etc. I say crime because calling old people day and night, many times over, with iffy offers and suggestions, and trying to extract their personal information should be a crime seriously punishable. And the phone companies should also be responsible for that.

I don't think we have had such a government or any political party yet, to take on scamming the elderly.

So tomorrow is Sunday and I'm seriously looking forward to it as the day possibly no scammer---except for possibly and unfortunately, only one or two--may call.