I find that my news and opinions are really very valued. Especially, at dinnertime when I get three phone calls a week asking me if I can complete a short telephone survey. It never used to bother me, but it is happening so often.

What really bothers me is when they call and ask if I can do some consumer reviews. I agree to and we start the long process of question after question. Then, when they have wasted twenty minutes of your time, you answer something wrong and they tell you that you are not eligible for the survey.

I understand that product reviews are important to the companies that develop the products, but could the surveyor find out your eligibility to take the survey before you get through the whole process? That would certainly save my time and theirs.

Better yet, they should just set up some website reviews and then they could call people and ask them to complete the short survey on the website. A lot of people would be willing to do this and we could do it after we finish eating dinner. What a novel idea.