STOP GIVING OUT MY PHONE NUMBER CAN?

What is it with people giving out my phone number to strangers without even asking me nowadays?! Do you have any basic form of respect? This is not the first time it happened already, and it’s pissing me off!

The first time was an insurance agent, bugging me almost everyday when I was in the hospital tending to my grandmother. Please, I already told her that I’m not in a mood to talk about whatever she’s offering and yet she kept calling! Then after telling my friend, he apologised and told her to stop pestering me. In a bid to keep me as a potential customer, she smsed me sending her regards to my grandmother. Seriously, I feel that it’s so hypocritical can? If not for earning my money, she will care?

And this time it’s one financial planner from one company I never heard of. Call me ignorant, but I really have no idea where this guy is from. He told me one of my army mates engaged his service and found it so useful that he gave him my phone number and told him to come and HELP me plan my future. When I politely told him I’m studying and totally not interested in this yet, he kept requesting to meet up, even after I ask him why he’s so persistant. He even said “No no, your friend told me to help you, so I am obliged to talk to you and let you benefit from the things I have to offer you”. ARGH~! WTH?! After all these that happened, I still haven’t heard anything from this friend who gave that guy my phone number, not even a msg informing me of what he have done. Thanks lor, for your interest in helping me, maybe you just wanna get that guy off your back huh?

Where is the basic courtesy? I thought the first step to giving a friend’s number to a complete stranger is to at least let the friend know and seek his permission? If you can just simply give out any of your friend’s number, then why not let all the names and telephone numbers be listed in the phone directory? You have my number because you are my friend, but I have no bloody intention to give my number to any other stranger! Isn’t this very straight forward?

Now I still have to think of a way to tell that stranger that I’m really not interested to meet him! All because of your kind act, FRIEND!