When the Mormons knock on my door.

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*Lacey enter the chat room*
Can I try to attempt to sneak up, too?

I have no problem with anyone who refrains from forcing their beliefs upon me. Once people start pushing I then have a problem.

Somebody's beliefs are their own. It doesn't affect me at all, so I don't care. But, like you said, if they start to force it on me, then I start pusing back.
Just like telemarketers

I may prefer the Mormons trying to baptize me over a telemarketer. While I am not atheist, I do my best not to be judgy. I try not to be rude as well, but I have had some really test me in that department.

Epsecially the ones trying to sell me solar saying they're looking at google images of my house. I tell them to look again because the one I'm looking at shows it. Also, my lawn looks pretty nice in the current photo

They have been really bad since we bought a house. If they call my cell phone I add them to my contacts and set a custom ringtone of "silent". That way I never even hear them calling.

The one that we refinanced and then sold two years after that.
It's been worse lately since I've been expecting calls from doctors and disability people. I've been tricked into answering more lately

I hear ya! I hate it when I am expecting calls and can't just ignore the phone. Sometimes these people are sneaky. When they call it will display the name and number of a neighbor or relative. But when you answr? Guess whooo!

I like when contractors try to sell me home imptovement projects. My answer is usually "If I was looking to do that, I would research and hire somebody myself. I wouldn't hire somebody who randomly called my on the phone"

These days too it seems people go for unusual spellings of otherwise simple James. For the life of me I do not understand why.

Just like sone people have common names that they slightly change the pronunciation of just to be different.
I really shouldn't talk, though, neither of my kids have common names.
Then again, my name didn't become common until after I was born. And of course, it's one of those that people keep jacking with the spelling

We get calls for that too.These folks are relentless. The same one calls from about 5 different numbers.

They always introduce themselves on the phone as if I'm supposed to know who they are too

At least they do that much. I may get a call from the doctors office or any place really that would be calling legitimately. They NEVER introduce themselves. They go straight to "Hey is this Sarah?" I always give them an earful. Places USED to introduce themselves. Now they don't bother.

I don't usually get those...then again, I generally answer the phone "This is 'Craven' "
Mostly a hold over from when I used to be a manager. Telemarketers were even worse then when I always had to answer.
A lot of the ones I know are scams that get sent to voice mail lately say something like "I have to talk to you about something important regarding your student loan..."
The student loan that I've never had....funny, they never say what they think my name is in the message

No one ever gets my name right. I have to spell the first an last names for them and even still they will butcher my last name.

I get the "This is the IRS and your social security number has been put on hold, we have a warrant for your arrest if you do not call..." scam calls. Saddest part is you know there are people who fall for this crap.

It's very sad and that's why they keep doing it.
Funny coincidence; if I was a girl my name would have been Sarah-with an H
You'd be surprised how many different ways people F up my name. And these days it's a very common first name and last name.
I've heard so many variations it's unbelievable. A couple I've heard many times, but sometimes somebody comes up with something so out of left field, the only way I can think they came up with it was they heard one letter and the number of sylables

Actually, we found out after the boy was born that he has the same first name as a fomous person's kid

The whole Aiden or something that rhymes with it bugs me like no other.
I've heard practically every letter used at the beginning of Aiden to make is sound like something original. It's not original, it's the same name with an extra letter. There was even a kid at my kids' old school named Zayden. Gimme a friggin break. The parents were total douche nozzles too, probably why they did that

Caiden, Braiden, Hayden, etc.... I despise this entire family of names.

It's the laziest way of trying to be unique.

I used to play the heck out of Mortal Kombat. I tell you what I REALLY, REALLY hate. Clever folks who name their girls Neveah, which is Heaven spelled backward! Usually Christian people too. Isn't spelling Heaven backward kind of sacrilegious?

There's also the classic of adding an extra syllable to the beginning of a name making it DeAndre or something like that

HA! That's funny!

One TM called and I told them I got no money, using my “Deliverance redneck voice”. They said I could finance it. I told them the bankruptcy judge said I had to cut up all those credit cards or he’d make me pay all my old bills back. He asked me when I filed bankruptcy as I heard papers rustling over the line. He said he had no record of my filing. So I told him I did it last Monday. The phone went dead and that TM never called again.

The whole "I have no record" thing on his end is pretty dumb anyway. I tell TMs all the time that whover they're buying their leads from are a waste of money. Especially the ones trying to get me to refinance a loan on a house that we refied and later sold. Or the senior benefits people that call me...I may be old, but I'm not that old yet