{"id":909,"date":"2007-09-01T13:37:12","date_gmt":"2007-09-01T18:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/909"},"modified":"2007-09-01T13:37:53","modified_gmt":"2007-09-01T18:37:53","slug":"sympathy-thats-worth-its-weight-in-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/909","title":{"rendered":"Sympathy That’s Worth Its Weight In Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"

The best time for a telephone solicitor to catch me is when I’m expecting a phone call and I’m busy in the kitchen and the phone rings and I don’t have my glasses handy to look at what the caller ID is telling me…<\/p>\n

Me:<\/strong> Hello…?<\/em><\/p>\n

Oh-So-Friendly Telephone Voice: <\/strong> Hello…I’m I speaking to Mrs. Garrett?<\/em><\/p>\n

Me:<\/strong> There’s no Mrs. Garrett here.<\/em><\/p>\n

Oh-So-Friendly Telephone Voice: <\/strong>  Oh…am I speaking to Mr. Garrett?<\/em><\/p>\n

Me (icily):<\/strong> Who’s calling?<\/em><\/p>\n

Oh-So-Friendly Telephone Voice: <\/strong>  I’m calling from the American Diabetes Association…<\/em><\/p>\n

Me<\/strong> (interrupting) :<\/strong>  Oh….right…I still get those mailings…  My mom passed away several years ago.<\/em><\/p>\n

Oh-So-Friendly Telephone Voice:  <\/strong> Oh.  I’m so sorry.  I’m just calling to thank you for your past support and to ask…<\/em><\/p>\n

Me:<\/strong> CLICK!<\/em><\/p>\n

The problem with cordless phones is you can’t slam them down when you hang up. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The best time for a telephone solicitor to catch me is when I’m expecting a phone call and I’m busy in the kitchen and the phone rings and I don’t have my glasses handy to look at what the caller ID is telling me… Me: Hello…? Oh-So-Friendly Telephone Voice:  Hello…I’m I speaking to Mrs. Garrett? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-the-jackass-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}