Slovenia Calling?

Nothing I say here will be news to you. My guess is that you get as many spam phone calls as I do. I could do the "block caller" routine in my sleep. As many times as I do it, I know that it's not going to make a damn bit of difference. My cell phone area code and primary digits do not match the geographical area where I reside, so when I get a call from that area (which accounts for most of the ones I get), I can be 99% certain the call is spam. I'd heard of people getting calls from their own phone number and thought that was accidental . . . and then this weekend, my guy got a spam call from his own number! Okay, funny ha-ha . . . but how do you block your own number?

Today, I got a call from Slovenia. Nothing against Slovenia, but I am fairly certain that I do not know anyone in Slovenia. Trust me, I do not know Melania Trump! Or her siblings. Or her distant cousins. Or the guy who grew up next door to her. Melania's home town, Sevnica, is known for its underwear factory and its salami festival. (I swear, I am not making this up!) I do not know any underwear sewers or salami makers. (Wow, learn something new everyday . . . people who sew are also called "sewists," an effort, I suppose, to differentiate between one who sews and an underground conduit for carrying off human waste matter. And just to add insult to injury, auto-correct wanted to change "sewist" to "sexist." Gotta love the English language!)

Salami jokes aside, the prevalence of spam phone calls is ridiculous. I came upon a headline today that said that more than half of the phone calls you get in 2019 will be spam. I am calling for a national emergency. I don't have to do this, but I want to speed up regulation on spam callers. I want a wall on spam. Block those callers! Prevent them entry! They are bringing trickery, they are bringing falsehoods, they are bringing rip-offs. And some of them, I think, are probably good people. Nonetheless, I want my Wall of against Spam!

Take that, salami!