So I get this call just before dinner and this woman starts right in with Hi, How am I today and before I can say I\u2019m busy here with some friends who are visiting she gushes Golly it\u2019s good to talk to someone who wasn\u2019t like the last person she called who was as cranky as her mother-in-law and I\u2019m going, Holy Replay, Batlady, this is the same solicitor of two days before who had really pissed me to the gills. <\/p>\n
Now, I could have just quietly hung up the phone. After all, I had guests who were listening in, wondering who I was talking to that it was so damn important to interrupt our conversation and usually with company I don\u2019t answer phones, but \u2026 well, no excuses. I had violated my own directive and was guilty of abject rudeness. And the irony was we had been talking about this very solicitor a few hours earlier, me still wound up about it, and now here was my tormentor calling back with her canned little speech about her crummy mother-in-law.<\/p>\n
Maybe you\u2019d have lost it too. I don\u2019t know. Maybe you\u2019re like me, cranky as that woman\u2019s husband\u2019s mom. But whatever \u2026 I barged in on her pitch to save breasts, half shouting to shut her up, and said \u201cYou called me two days ago with this stupid speech and when I tried to explain why I wasn\u2019t going to give money you hung up on me. YOU HUNG UP ON ME!\u201d And then I told her to, let\u2019s not mince words here, I told her to go fuck herself. Aiiii\u2026.<\/p>\n
I know. One small rudeness doesn\u2019t necessarily deserve another. And worse, I regretted not trying to tell her how her first call sort of put a dark blot on my day and even the next day. Silly, sure, but it did. And how maybe in the future she could respect people who for whatever reason didn\u2019t put a check in the mail by not hanging up on them when the money wasn\u2019t forthcoming. Sure, all those things you think of \u2026 later. <\/p>\n
So now I\u2019m remorseful, feeling bad once again, a victim of myself, another Trump banshee flinging his own feces against the wall. Does it mean I should get Caller ID? Do I need anger management mediation? Should I quit answering phone calls, stop watching the evening news, cancel my subscriptions to the paper?? Should I, out of guilt, send money to the breast cancer people? Not like I know which breast cancer group called \u2026.<\/p>\n
I just don\u2019t know. And now, every time the phone rings, you KNOW what I\u2019m thinking. I\u2019m thinking it might be that woman one more time. Telling me how nice it is to hear a voice that wasn\u2019t as cranky as that last caller. No, not her mother-in-law, the one who told her to go fuck herself. Jeez, if nothing else I got her mother-in-law off the hook. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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