Cavalcade of Spots 0
J. D. Hansard is tired of being pursued by relentless bearers of benighted bargains. A snippet:
Our phone is like a nest of chiggers. When I was a kid and went blackberry picking, I might come home with 20 itchy chigger bites. They tormented me — like the phone does now.
In this household, the situation is so bad that we no longer answer the landline (yes, we have a landline for the fax–remember faxes?–and for the 911 call we hope will never happen). If you care about us, you care enough to leave a message, which we then ignore if it’s not from a real live human being.
I can also tell you that if the Caller ID shows “Private,” “Unavailable,” or “Unknown,” your call goes unanswered. If you don’t want us to know who you are, you have declared yourself ipso facto untrustworthy.
