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The last time you didn’t do something that you were supposed to do, why didn’t you and what was it?

 

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. 



  

Posted - July 29, 2020

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  • 8214
    Shhhhhhh, don't remind me.  :  )
      July 29, 2020 6:41 AM MDT
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  • 53526
      July 29, 2020 7:08 AM MDT
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  • The master bedroom at home needs painting and has been topping my list of Things I Just Don't Want To Do for months now.  I hang my head low every time I walk past the one wall that I did manage to prep. You said you're retired now right?

      July 29, 2020 6:53 AM MDT
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  • 53526

     

      Hey, wait . . .

      July 29, 2020 7:08 AM MDT
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  • 44651
    Pay a doctor bill. I forgot.
      July 29, 2020 8:27 AM MDT
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  • 17614
    An errand.  I forgot.  Will do tomorrow.
      July 29, 2020 3:10 PM MDT
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