We have a phone that ‘announces’ who is calling. And if it’s
not someone I know or a call that I’m expecting I just ignore it.
Most of the time it’s just BS and scammers. But they’re
getting more creative with their numbers, and the announcements are quite
intriguing.
“Not assigned’, “unlisted’, “out of area”…..who ARE these people? Sometimes it
even says the IRS! (That one is quite funny actually; it’s a scam where they
threaten to come arrest you if you don’t send them money. If I answer that one
I tell them “Come right ahead! I’ll be waiting at the door with my loaded AK47!”
I don’t know why but that’s when they hang up! LOL)
But I digress……
Today as I was trying to write something pithy for the blog
the phone was unusually busy. And it was a lot of “out of areas”. As I was
struggling to write something funny it kept coming out as a rant. Basically I
was just pissing and moaning about the state of the world and how it’s going to
hell in a hand basket. Not funny, not interesting, not the slightest bit
entertaining.
And then I began to think, ‘out of area’, that could mean
anything….way out of area…..like maybe it was my mother calling to tell me to
quit your bitchin’! Now THAT would really be ‘out of area’!
It made me laugh and snapped me out of my mood….so maybe, in
a way, it WAS my mother!
Thanks, mom!
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ReplyDeleteI never answer our home phone any more unless the person leaves a message.😠
ReplyDeleteIt could have been me!
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