How's this for irony?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I don’t make a great deal of money at any of my three (yes, three)part-time jobs; so when I can, I supplement my income doing the occasional focus group.

This week, I noticed several calls on the caller ID log from the agency that does the focus groups. Mind you, these people don’t materialize out of thin air. They run ads in the help wanteds, you answer the ad and some preliminary questions, then if you don’t fit the current research, they may keep you on file for future projects. They don’t call you out of nowhere. They don’t call cold.

Okay, so I noticed the calls, but my roommate hasn’t said anything about them.

So this afternoon, my roommate tells me that she is going to go do a focus group, and she is so excited!

I say, oh yes, I noticed that they’d called for me this week. She said, no they weren’t calling for me, they were calling for her. She said she was talking to a friend downtown who “must have put her on the list.” :dubious: (this friend was a political friend who has nothing to do with advertising or market research at all.) (did I mention she’s done this to me before?)

–But wait! Just now, as she was leaving, she

borrowed two dollars from me for bus fare to the focus group!

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That sucks, but how is that ironic? It’s like rain on your wedding day.

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I think it’s more like a black fly in your Chardonnay. Not really ironic.

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So it’s Morissettian Irony?

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It’s like paying for someone else’s ride when you’re already broke?

Crummy roommate, btw.

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stand by for irony…
i put up a light fixture in the kitchen last night.

by candlelight.

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You need a better roommate.

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So let me make sure I have this straight…
You’re accusing your roommate of stealing your spot in the focus group and lying to you about it, because the caller ID has the number of the focus group people on it – calls which you assume were for you but she claims were for her.
Did you call them back to ask if they had something for you? That might have helped clear things up. Otherwise, I don’t think you have enough evidence for a conviction.

But assuming she did poach your spot, I agree with Cat Whisperer.

And you didn’t have to give her the bus money, you know.

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It’s more colbalty or manganesy.

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Enough about (mis)use of the word “irony.” bru, charge her interest.

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It’s time for you to get your own cell phone instead of sharing a phone with your roomie.

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I’ve been called for a focus group because I had recently purchased a Ford car. (Oddly, a Focus). It wasn’t quite a cold call, since they got my name from the dealer, but the market research company called me and not the other way around. So it’s not impossible that they called for her, she could have bought something that got her name on a list.