Volunteer Post #3

So today I completed three more hours of painfully boring phone calls for a total of eight hours of volunteering behind me! While it was fun at first, people are starting to be really mean and rude when I ask them to answer the survey questions. One guy today yelled at me that he had received 15 million calls from the same people, which is just ridiculous.

One funny thing that I learned today was that when we make phone calls, the caller id shows up as “Batman.” When one woman picked up the phone she asked me “Am I talking to Batman or Robin?” Since I am starting to get really bored with phone calls, I tried to entertain myself today by looking for funny names on the call sheet. I called people with the last names McCain, Ayers, Kerry, and Wolf. I also talked to a guy named James Brown. When you make a phone call it tells you that you are contacting “The NAME Household.” This was funny because when I called a man with the last name “Crack” the phone told me that I was contacting “The CRACK House!”

Tomorrow I am going back to the site to finish up my ten hours and I have to admit that I am going to be pretty sad to leave. All of the volunteers are really nice, helpful, and truly care about the cause. I am glad to say that I feel I have had a positive impact on the McCain campaign.