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Attitude Problem
Aug. 22nd, 2005 02:01 pmEvery once in a while you have to deal with someone who really shouldn't be a member of the human race. Who really never learned the proper way to deal with other human beings. Who you really expect to win a Darwin Award some time soon.
Case in point:
We get phone calls on a regular basis for several different doctors. For some reason, our phone number is *still* linked to a variety of different doctors (I've heard three or four different doctors' names so far) because other physicians won't update their damned address books. It's been *four* years since we got this phone number! You'd think they'd have figured this out by now.
Anyway. I get this phone call today from this woman asking for this particular doctor. I'm tired of these calls, but I'm still polite. I tell her, "I'm sorry, but this is the wrong number."
She sighs dramatically, then says, "Well, this is the number they gave me," and rattles off the number which, like usual, is mine. I say, "yes, that's my number and it's not a doctor's office." I wasn't trying to be rude, and I wasn't being sarcastic, but I'm tired of the calls.
Her response was to say, "You bitch!" and hang up. Like it's all my fault that they gave her my phone number to harass me with.
Joy.
The next time I get one of these phone calls, I'm going to ask them where they got it from, then that number is going to get a harassing phone call from me.
Case in point:
We get phone calls on a regular basis for several different doctors. For some reason, our phone number is *still* linked to a variety of different doctors (I've heard three or four different doctors' names so far) because other physicians won't update their damned address books. It's been *four* years since we got this phone number! You'd think they'd have figured this out by now.
Anyway. I get this phone call today from this woman asking for this particular doctor. I'm tired of these calls, but I'm still polite. I tell her, "I'm sorry, but this is the wrong number."
She sighs dramatically, then says, "Well, this is the number they gave me," and rattles off the number which, like usual, is mine. I say, "yes, that's my number and it's not a doctor's office." I wasn't trying to be rude, and I wasn't being sarcastic, but I'm tired of the calls.
Her response was to say, "You bitch!" and hang up. Like it's all my fault that they gave her my phone number to harass me with.
Joy.
The next time I get one of these phone calls, I'm going to ask them where they got it from, then that number is going to get a harassing phone call from me.
