Heh. Does this make me a bad person?
Phone rings. I'm in the middle of getting breakfast for the G. horde (yes, I know. There are only two of them. But when I'm outnumbered 2:1, and they've been watching Saturday morning cartoons for the past hour and a half, they constitute a horde to rival that of Attila's...). I look at the caller ID, and it's my wife's old college roommate.
Now, I knew this girl in college. She had a major thing for my roommate, and consequentially was forever hanging around. She's the only person to ever attack me with a weapon (pair of scissors). So, no, I don't particularly like this little sack 'o' crazymeat.
I see the number, figure it's her inviting us to her annual Christmas party (it was), and quickly put the phone back down - I have no need to talk to her, and the answering machine can take a message just as good or better than I can...
Technology. Sometimes I think that avoiding people we don't like is its primary use...
That is all.
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I hear ya. My DW used to rant about people who screened calls. Since we got caller-id she screens everything, and even gets annoyed with me if I choose to answer an "unknown name, unknown number" call.
And since she reads your blog, she's pulling up outside your house with scissors now, right?
;-)
I'm hoping she's running with scissors...
Actually, I shouldn't say that. Getting married and having kids really calmed her down.
I can actually stand her for short periods of time.
Like 10-20 seconds...
Do it with my cell phone all the time, and never once have I felt bad about it.
Nothing says I have to speak to anyone...
You'd appreciate the outgoing message on my cellphone voicemail:
"STOP and listen carefully.
I am not answering because I am either unable to come to the phone or I do not recognize your information on my caller ID. Leave a detailed message as to why you are calling me and I will consider calling you back."
I tend to get a lot of unintelligible Mumbai mumblings, but it beats them wasting my time listening to them in the first person.
One of these days, I'll tell you about how I abuse folks who dial a wrong number looking for some unknown female person :D
Regards,
Rabbit.
"Telephone, n.
An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
-Ambrose Bierce
Penned in the Devil's Dictionary probably a century ago, by ol' Bitter Bierce.
sack 'o' crazymeat
That goes right up there with psycho hosebeast.
I appreciate the fact that not only does my cell phone have caller ID, but I can assign unique ringers to contacts. The downside to that is I get attacked by my horde whenever the ex calls.
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