Crank calls?

Disclaimer - Aimed at many who still exist, not knowing how to deal with crank callers, but want to. Those who deal with them but the wrong way - and want to or don't want to get rid of it, those who don't understand why it's not healthy to entertain these calls mostly, and also those who deal with them smartly or beg to differ with my views - are all welcome to respond, if you feel you have a helpful  bit to add. 

Let me go straightaway to what to do with them - by putting down what I do with them - which I believe, is the simplest remedy. I save the numbers as 'Salyam (which translates to disturbance, in malayalam). I found it as the right malayalam decent word to refer to anyone who's nothing more than a nuisance and has nothing worth to tell you - and the mere mention of it or it flashing on your mobile screen would create the right attitude towards the caller in your mind, instantly. So, the key I believe, is to save the numbers under a category named powerful enough to set up the right mental feelings, and just pressing the reject button upon seeing their call.


A well-known mistake made by many is picking up the call and letting out vigourous expletives at the caller, who is nothing else but getting just entertained in the process. Some of them just want a response. The intend is mostly malicious. May be there are a handful of people who're lucky in life that a 'missed-call-buddy' transformed into a life-long bestfriend or partner or whatsoever, keep reminding yourself -  statistics show that a lot of people were cheated. Their life got doomed for ever. Their future got affected. And the ratio of them to the lucky ones is huge, beyond compare. 


Do not save the number in the name of the person. Some soft minds would start shaking, seeing how badly some bugger wants to talk to you, and give in. This is why I tell you, create a category for it. Once you're convinced that the person is not doing you any good, just push him in there and all you would know when such a call flashes is, it's one of them - and they're nothing but a nuisance. 


Dear innocent readers, cluelessers, try this for a while. You'd a earn a skill for life, save a lot of time, and what more, discourage someone out there who gets the message , may be, right, and who knows, may be initiate a positive change!