The ten o'clock phone call.

I have a local phone number here. It costs me about 10 bucks a month, has no long distance and I don't use it much, but I keep it in case I lose my mobile phone, so that I have a way to contact work.

I am slowly moving to night shift here, so I am now sleeping late into the day. Almost every day, my phone rings at about 10 AM, and when it does, I know it is phone spam. I guess the latest wrinkle on sales calls is to automate them, so that I can't even tell them to add me to their do-not-call list. "This is your second notice that the factory warranty on your vehicle is expiring..."
(No need to specify the make or model of the vehicle since this is spam...the warranty on my current vehicle, which I got used, expired a long time ago.)

Interesting addendum to this story. I was walking through the airport recently on my last trip home. I walk past a bank of pay phones, and one of them is ringing. I'm not in a hurry, so I figure what-the-hey, and answer. "...to renew the factory warranty on your vehicle, please act now..." Wow. How desperate are phone spammers that they are now calling random pay phones? Probably it was a wrong number. I am not yet so paranoid as to believe the same spammers are now tracking my location and ringing any phone near me (seen the move The Game?). I bet Hollywood would love to make that into a movie though.

Interesting addendum to the addendum: I am flying back on the same trip, and same scenario,
I stop to answer a ringing pay phone. It would have been amazing if it was the factory warranty people again, and certainly would have fueled my paranoia, but it wasn't. It was just some guy, trying to get in touch with some other guy. I told him I didn't know guy 2, and that this was a airport pay phone. He said he must have a wrong number, and thanks. Now I wish I could remember the names, it would have made this story much more interesting.