Grey had a incident with a telemarketer
last month. I should have been as wise as him to be as rude.
This just happened to me not five minutes ago:
[Phone rings]
Me: Mom, can you get it? [I was ladeling soup into bowls.]
Mom: [picks up phone] Hello? [long pause] Hold on.
Me: [retrieves phone] Hello?
Annoying pushy phone bitch (APPB): Hello, I'm calling from the ******** ***** Association.
We really appreciate your support in the past, and I am calling again in hopes that you'll
contribute again this year. As you know, CP is a disease that affects many young boys and girls.
CP association lets them make friends and assimilate into the world. I'm wondering if we can
write you down for $80 dollars this year?
Me: No. I just made a contribution to the lady that came to my door a couple days ago. (eighty
dollars?!? Holy crap! Why don't you give ME eighty dollars?!)
APPB: [Pause] I have your account on my screen right now. You haven't contributed this year.
Me: I just gave money and signed her form for CP last week. (did she just call me a liar?!?
that b*tch!!)
APPB: This is the sports association for CP..
Me: She had a CP badge.
APPB: Can you make a contribution this year?
Me: No. I don't have money right now.
APPB: Well the little girls and boys suffer from ostrasization from their condition. The
support from CB association provides them with the social conditions that they need to live a
full life. Can you make a contribution?
Me: No I can't. I'm a student. I don't have a job right now. [..as I pace around in my living
room getting all pissed off.]
APPB: Well you made a contribution last year of $20. Many people are matching their past
contributions. Can you match your last donation of $20?
Me: [Deep breath] NOOOOO. GOOD BYE!!
Good GOD, lady. What part of "no" do you not understand? What part of "I don't have a job."
"I don't have money" doesn't make sense?!?!? Christ!!!!
She was just one step away from committing charity-phone rape. Why the hell do charities have
to be so pushy and beggy???!?
heh. Aww...isn't that cute. My mother bought me a soya sauce chicken leg for dinner tonight.
I was like, "why the heck did you just buy one leg? there's five people."
She says that I'm the only one who eats it. GOODIE! More for me, none for you. and you. and you.
and you either.
hehe. How cute. Maybe she's proud of me with my first industry interview. Or more likely, maybe
she's pissed off at my brother for being a no-show all mother's day. Shame on him. what, was he
spending it with his friends' mothers? Don't they have mothers themselves?
shame shame.
So. It is 7:02pm and I am working on the business plan. Maybe I'll still be up twelve hours from
now.