So the phone rings early this morning and since I don\u2019t have Caller ID, I answer it with my usual Hello, no clue who\u2019s wanting to talk at me. I know, I\u2019m the last man in the industrialized nations of the world who doesn\u2019t have Caller ID so you\u2019re thinking I deserve what I get when I pick up. The price you pay for being a Luddite, I guess. <\/p>\n
The too cheerful voice on the other end starts right in with how am I today and I say I\u2019m just hunky-dory and she says how glad she is I\u2019m not the last person she talked to who was as cranky as her mother-in-law but before I can slide an answer in edgewise she\u2019s off and running how she and the good folks for some breast cancer something or other are trying to do good in this miserable world, trying to save lives, trying to \u2026 I try my best to slip in and tell her we have our own charities we \u2026 trying to save the planet from disease and misfortune and would we help in some small way if they \u2026. I make another attempt to \u2026 just send us a letter of commitment, nothing would be too small, anything would \u2026.<\/p>\n
Finally I just talk over her, fully aware that now I\u2019M THE CRANKY MOTHER-IN-LAW FROM HELL WHO WON\u2019T SAVE WOMEN\u2019S BREASTS FROM THE RAVAGES OF CANCER!!, the curmudgeon who won\u2019t write a check for some measly sum too small to pay for their stamps and letterheads even, who would rather give to some other less worthy organization, who \u2026<\/p>\n
And I realize in mid-apology for my crappy life \u2026 she\u2019s hung up and moved on to the next name on her list. No more small talk, no appreciative mumbling how we all give in our own small way, no goodbye, just a phone gone dead. So now I\u2019m not only feeling bad turning down what may very well be a legitimate organization dedicated to stopping cancer in its tracks, I\u2019m pissed off. Great, just flippin great.<\/p>\n
This isn\u2019t the first time I\u2019ve found myself in this position, feeling aggrieved and angry, but it\u2019s going to be the last time. No more listening to solicitations from now on. No! I\u2019m channeling the last caller\u2019s mother-in-law from here on out. And unless I miss my guess, she\u2019s probably a nice old lady\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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