When telemarketers call, my wife doesn’t answer the phone because they get her all flustered and she just doesn’t like dealing with them. She wants me to follow her lead, which I usually do, but there are times that I will answer and engage with them. Sometimes there is no one on the other end, it’s a robocall, and I just hang up. My wife assumes that her anxiety with dealing with telemarketers is universal (meaning that since she is my wife, she believes that I should think and feel exactly the same way that she does), she then gets flustered with me after I hang up the phone from talking with them. I assure her that I’m not bothered by talking with them at all, but to no avail; she would rather I don’t answer. That’s been a long-standing quasi-“agreement” around here for almost a year that we don’t answer telemarketers‘ calls.
Then I retired, so nowadays I’m home more, and I’m around her more. I didn’t ignore a telemarketer’s call yesterday and answered it just because. She just rolled her eyes at me but she didn’t say anything.
Hey, wait . . .