A few fun ways to deal with “pests.”

Elena Tucker
4 min readNov 2, 2021
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We all get them — those phone calls or texts from scammers and telemarketers, notifications about our vehicle’s warranty, our “relative” stuck at the airport, photos of scantily clad women who want to be your “friend,” and the never-ending supply of Nigerian princes who just need a little to tide them over until they get their inheritance. They are annoying, these time wasters, these scammers, and the best way to deal with…

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Elena Tucker

Writer and storyteller, immigrant, wife, mom, knitter, collector of jokes, lover of cheap, sweet wine.