My phone rang three times this am about ten minutes apart. No one spoke. The call was from someone with an unlisted cell phone originating in the Montreal area.
I don’t know if this is a wrong number or not but in any case, this is for any and all callers.
Ringing my phone over and over again without saying something is not going to get me to answer. If my not answering without you identifying yourself pisses you off, that is just too bad. Get over it. It is none of my neighbours business if I require people to identify themselves or not. If you want to answer the phone every time it rings no matter who it is, go right ahead and I won’t even try to stop you. I also won’t discuss the fact that you do that, or what I think of you for it, with other neighbours, people in the mall food court, or bus drivers. I actually don’t care one bit what YOU do with YOUR phone and I cannot imagine why what I do with mine is of any interest to you at all. People don’t understand when I say I don’t care who says what about whom or plastic smiles or cat sessions called ‘socializing.’
So the short version of the phone calling bit is this: Speak or don’t. But don’t whine to third parties about not getting an answer. I suggest you LISTEN to the answering machine message and make your decision about whether you want to meet my standards for contact ...or not. I don’t care.
I don’t care because it does not matter to me what you choose to do within your personal boundaries. I care what you do when you are pushing your way into MINE but not if you stay out of them. If you want to not speak to me at all, feel free to give me your profound silence. I don’t care. That is an expression of feelings within boundaries so it is fine with me. If on the other hand you want to stand and scream at me I DO care about that as your noise is invading my personal space. And as for you who are all the time worrying about who I am and playing, “There she is...is that her there...let me have Betty White say a word to you about that.
Betty?
 From her Book: Betty White: In Person
...On Being Recognized
"Then there are the ones who seem to think you can neither see nor hear. They nudge the person next to them and point,"Look I told you that's her. She's not as fat as I thought she was." The fact that they are standing three feet away from you doesn't faze them an iota..." "A pushy group, drawing support and false courage in numbers, is usually made up of remarkably normal individuals, who would never act that way on their own." "We see NOW in relationship to what has gone on before. It begins to take on a pattern and with any luck even begins to make sense."
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