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August 27, 2004

Phones ........

No I haven't called my Dr office yet to reschedule...yeah yeah..I will today; they aren't ready to answer those phonelines yet. I dislike making phone calls. I really don't know when this started or why BUT there it is...I hate making phone calls.

Oh sure, I was a typical teen...always on the phone, no problem then. Well, no problem using the phone, afterall, I needed to solve all the other problems in my life from acne to wearing green on Wednesdays. ( if you remember that you are old) As a young wife and Mom, I had no problem using the phone then either; afterall I was in a different state ( as in one of the United ones vs emotional/mental variety)and needed to maintain contact with the outside world. Ahem...this was back in the olden days ... before the internet, email and Instant messages ya know. Heck, this was back in the days when computers took up whole rooms and hand held calculators were the size of watermelons. Be that as it may, I had no problems using the phone.

It started out innocently enough, I'd put off making appointments because I needed to have some free time sans kid noises and interruptions. Even to this day, I would prefer to make my phone calls early before I got on with the day's agenda and distracted by leaving the house for my errands. See? I could stop typing right now and call but noooooooooooo they won't answer the phone right now will they? Nope. I'd get the answering machine. Is this really the culprit? I'd have to leave my name and number and a short message which for me is totally imppossible...I tend to start off ok, name phone number, sometimes but then the short message part comes in and I start to babble. I get into explanations and corrections and ummms and errrs and finally sigh and hang up. I'm sure I left a stunning performance of incompetance and why should any of these people ever call me back. ahhh ha! Maybe now we are getting to the root of the "problem" (BTW.....I recently had to leave a message for a friend and after listening to what I had said her husband who had never met me, turned to her and said "Is she a ditz or what?" Oh my God, I'm not a ditz! No One has ever called me a ditz before! Guess that would tend to reinforce my phone trauma)

The root of the problem...leaving messages? Nooooooo. Waiting for people to call me back.....just maybe! How many times have you felt the need to hang around and wait for the return phone only to find yourselve trapped waiting...impatiently...why aren't they calling back? Several hours goes by and you know if you get on with what you need to do, they will call. You know if you go in the bathroom they will call. If you go outside to the mailbox, they will call. If you get ont he phone with other necessary phone calls, they will call. So you wait and wait and finally when you can stand it no more, you go to the bathroom and leave the house at 4:59pm (annoyed they didn't call)to get the milk and bread you so desperately need, wait in the after work line of people who look at you and KNOW you had all of your SHAM day to run this little errand, only to get home to find they called. ...and then you know you will have to start the process allllllll over again the next morning when they won't be available to call when you think about it and then you will have to leave another message...and wait.

Well I did it...I called to reschedule...yup... got all done got a date and time...went to put it in the old Palm Pilot so I wouldn't forget AND found that I had screwed up the weeks I was going to be home and scheduled it for a not home week. Sigh....call back, "hello, My name is Fran and sometimes I AM a ditz."

Posted by frani at August 27, 2004 08:12 AM

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You are NOT a ditz.....but I hate having to make the appts ahead of time...I never get the days right and screw up the days I took off for it

Posted by: Risa at August 27, 2004 11:37 AM

ya know...I don't even like making a comment on my own site! What a PITA! Why does Typekey make one open a new window?? anyway...thanks, Risa!

Posted by: Fran at August 27, 2004 11:59 AM

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