{"id":916,"date":"2007-09-05T11:48:27","date_gmt":"2007-09-05T16:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/916"},"modified":"2007-09-05T11:48:27","modified_gmt":"2007-09-05T16:48:27","slug":"how-to-end-a-telephone-conversation-before-it-even-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/916","title":{"rendered":"How To End A Telephone Conversation Before It Even Begins&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;with Me at any rate.&nbsp; Once again I am expecting a phone call on the land line, and once again I don&#8217;t have my glasses handy when the phone rings, to check the caller ID&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me:<\/strong> Hello?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oh-So-Friendly Telephone Voice:<\/strong>&nbsp; Hello&#8230;am I speaking to Mr. Garnet?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me (warily):<\/strong> Are you with the landscaping company&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oh-So-Friendly Telephone Voice:<\/strong>&nbsp; No&#8230;I&#8217;m calling on behalf of&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me:<\/strong> CLICK!<em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Garrett.&nbsp; <em>Garrett.<\/em>&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/garrett\"><em><strong>gar<\/strong>-it<\/em><\/a> .&nbsp; Two &#8216;r&#8217;s, two &#8216;t&#8217;s goddamnit.&nbsp; <em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;with Me at any rate.&nbsp; Once again I am expecting a phone call on the land line, and once again I don&#8217;t have my glasses handy when the phone rings, to check the caller ID&#8230; Me: Hello? Oh-So-Friendly Telephone Voice:&nbsp; Hello&#8230;am I speaking to Mr. Garnet? Me (warily): Are you with the landscaping company&#8230;? Oh-So-Friendly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-uncategorized","tag-the-jackass-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916","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=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}