Phone Skills

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Tonight's subjects:

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NSA and privacy
Da Vinci Code
Survivor
Phone calls
Joan
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Joan never answered my second email. She probably read my blog and went, 'Yeeesh...'

'Phone Calls' refers to three occasions when I deigned to answer the phone recently (I was expecting a call from Kaiser Permante).

First call:
me: Hello?
it: (silence for several long seconds).
me: What the fuck do you - whoever you are - want?
it: Begins to play a tape of somebody who is '...worried about my mortgage...'
me: (hung up)

Second call:
me: Hello?
it: (silence for several seconds).
me: Fuck you. (hangup.)

Third call:
me: Hello?
it: (tape of somebody who wonders if I am a 'renter.'
me: (hang up.)

It's very true, folks: my phone skills could use a little work...