It seems that Heather from Account Services has really got the hots for me lately and has been calling me from all over the country.
Unfortunately I can’t just ignore calls from unknown numbers because part of my job is answering calls from all over the country.
Grmph.
Have you tried sexually harassing her? Next time ask her what color panties she’s wearing. What’s her favorite position? Has she ever had a three way with twin dwarves? On and on. The goal is to make HER want your number on the DO NOT CALL list.
But these days I’m usually working and don’t have time/motivation to sit through the recording to get to a live “Heather”.
Well, weigh the options: waste a few minutes one time, save a few minutes many times in the future.
Insist you won’t talk to her if she doesn’t sent a selfie.
Why even answer the phone in the first place?
Repeat after me;
The Phone is a Tool for my convenience.
When it stops being convenient, I stop using it.
To a friend (maybe a former friend): We haven’t talked much–or, really, at all–in the last two years. I know that, once you got married a few years ago, you lost touch with friends who weren’t also friends with your wife. (I think your wife is a good person, but we don’t enjoy each other’s company much.) That I dropped out of grad school and started making money, while you were struggling in your PhD program and going broke, didn’t help.
About a year ago, I sent you a few texts about getting together. They led to nothing. I know that people grow apart sometimes. I was a little disappointed, but I understood.
So imagine my surprise when I got an invitation to your wife’s baby shower. You hadn’t even told me she was pregnant. Maybe I’m horribly cynical, but it’s hard for me to see this purely as a well-intentioned desire to reconnect. Especially since your mother-in-law is the one organizing the shower, so you probably won’t even be there.
If you’re talking to me, I’ll refer you to my original post on the matter.
But it is - a desire to reconnect with your gift money. 
I’ve taken up the hobby of scavenging and fixing up and selling the stuff I find. I mostly really enjoy this, but the people I sell to (or try to sell to) sure have some annoying habits. What you want from me is to answer my messages, be home when I say I will be, and not lie about what I’m selling. I do all three of these reliably. What I need from you is to respond to my messages to you, tell me when you want to pick the item up, and show up when you say you will. I’m not asking for the moon and stars here, but it seems to be out of the reach of too many people. 
You’re trying to sell them on Craigslist, aren’t you?
I haven’t had anything beyond a first date in seven years. It took me about 2 years to start really recovering from my divorce. I tried dating for about two years and had zero success. The best dates I had were hours of boredom with people I didn’t want to see again. Which beat the outright rudeness, hurtfulness, and humiliation I got in some of my worst post-divorce dating experiences. So I stopped trying.
I was recently inspired by a friend of mine to give it another shot. I’ve now been online, with Coffee Meets Bagel, for a week. The experience has been pretty dismal. Why does this have to suck so much?
Yes, I realize it’s only been a week. And I realize that I’m going to have to search hard to find someone with whom there’s mutual interest. But I know other less than model-perfect women over 40 who’ve managed to find someone. What’s so wrong with me?
I’m not asking for much. I just want someone who wants me, who I’m attracted to back, and who’d be fun to be with. That’s pretty much it. That sounds simple, but it’s proving complicated as hell to find. If I could take a pill to stop myself from having any interest in dating, I’d take it. Exactly as directed, exactly on time, for the rest of my life. This just feels horrible. And I doubt there’s anything I can do to fix it.
Facebook, but same shit, different pile.
Ugh. My condolences. Flakiness sucks.
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Do you have any weird interests that might thin the herd a bit? Something you’d be delighted to connect with another person over? There are so many dating sites these days tailored to individual interests, it might be worth looking into. (Googling I found this dating site for geeks. No idea if it’s any good.)
I have a decidedly tiny rant, which is that requiring all employees to use the same e-mail signature annoys me, especially when the new format sucks. I’m sure corporate people don’t think twice about this type of requirement, but I work for a nonprofit and things tend to be a little more lax in that world. We have a new branding/marketing consultant and in general what she’s doing is pretty great, but I think requiring everyone to have the same email signature is lame. And I hate the new format. It’s bland (no graphic) and structured in such a way that it looks like a long list.
I’ve lived in Southern Ontario my whole life. I’d LOVE to live in San Diego. Hate the humid summers and frozen winters here.
My rant: There are TOO. MANY. PEOPLE. Can’t drive anywhere around Toronto without being in a traffic jam, any time of day or night.
Just in case anyone missed it, the new month’s thread is here. Me, I loved the July title and am sad to see it go.