Why I Won't Answer My Phone

I refuse to answer the phone for the next two days.  Poor Trixie.  She becomes agitated whenever the phone rings.  She'll look at the phone, then run to me, then look at the phone and so on and so on until it stops.  She's been suffering quite a bit lately.  I've tried to explain to her that it will only get worse, but her English isn't very good.

You probably know why I'm not answering.  Robo calls.  Ugh!  They are in full force.  I don't know which candidates are the worst offenders as I never listen long enough before hanging up.  But, I do know they disrupt my dinner preparations.  I'm not much of a cook, and if I am disturbed in the middle of meal preparations, odds are good I'll forget a key ingredient or burn something.  I've yet to go to the powder room without the ring-a-ding-ding of the phone and Trixie's frantic barking in the background.  The late night ones scare the heck out of me.  Everybody knows that calls after 9:00 are bad news.  It infuriates me that political callers do not have to adhere to the Do Not Call List.  But then, why should I be surprised?  It's simply another case of our government making a law that they do not have to obey.

I probably should stop watching TV too.  But, I can't.  I need my daily General Hospital fix.

This has been a most contentious campaign.  While I have not unfriended anyone from my Facebook page recently, I have unfriended people in the past due to politics.  Case in point is my brother.  He and I were friends for less than a week.  I posted something political and he responded by calling me a socialist idiot. Click!  I deleted that moron from my social network life.  It was freeing!  Yes, I still have to face him when I go home to PA, but in person we know enough not to discuss politics.

I was unfriended by someone.  It took me a while to realize, but when I did, I contacted her and  asked if I had offended/upset her.  Here's part of her reply:

Honestly, I just am making a point to stay non-controversial, avoid political comment and generally reduce as much negativity as possible. I did not intend to hurt your feelings so I quietly blocked you.

Ha Ha  She's calling me a negative influence on her life and my feelings aren't supposed to be hurt?  She offered to consider unblocking me after the election, but I told her in my own little negative manner to bite me.

Anybody who knows me knows that I am a dedicated Democrat.  I appreciate my Republican friends trying to change my mind, but there is such a thing as lost causes.  I still love my Republican friends, and I hope they will continue to care about me...even if they have to wait until after the election to show me the love.  If it makes them any happier, I have completed the sample ballot I will take to the polls, and I am voting in the local election for a Republican who strikes me as the best person for the job.  I'll even do a write-in vote for the first time in my life.

I don't care who you vote for, sorta.  Just get out there tomorrow and vote your conscience.  This is a close and critical election.  We Americans are lucky that our votes actually count and can make a difference.