# Thanks For The Message **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 14, 2003, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-the-message/155163 "2003-02-14T22:07:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2003, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-the-message/155163/1 "2003-02-14T22:07:14Z")
Because I’m poor, I’ve rented out one of the spare rooms in my trailer. My roommate is about as sharp as a sack full of wet mice. He doesn’t know how to use a computer, can’t figure out how to work a VCR, and pines for the days when he was a garbage man. Today, he tells me that someone called for me yesterday. Someone named “Sheila.” I know of **no one** named Sheila, I _do_, however, have several applications and resume’s out there, so it’s entirely possible that someone from a place I’m trying to get a job at was named Sheila and was calling me for an interview, _but I’ll never fucking know because my dipshit roommate was too stupid to get any more information from her other than her fucking name was Sheila!_ Thanks a fucking lot, dipwad! ---
**Author:** ![RexDart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b77776/32.png) [@RexDart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RexDart)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2003, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-the-message/155163/2 "2003-02-14T22:09:53Z")
LOL. No, I shouldn’t laugh at your roomate’s incompetence or your misfortune. I have given up on ever having roommates for that exact reason, you can never trust anyone but yourself with the important things in life. BTW, it might be a good idea, though costly, to get a cell phone. Just give that number out to potential employers, and you never miss a call. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2003, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-the-message/155163/3 "2003-02-14T22:16:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RexDart \* > \*\*LOL. No, I shouldn’t laugh at your roomate’s incompetence or your misfortune. I have given up on ever having roommates for that exact reason, you can never trust anyone but yourself with the important things in life. > > BTW, it might be a good idea, though costly, to get a cell phone. Just give that number out to potential employers, and you never miss a call. \*\* As soon as I get my tax refund (which should be any day now), I’m getting one. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2003, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-the-message/155163/4 "2003-02-14T22:19:55Z")
And post a big sign by the phone (along with pen and paper) that says “TAKE COMPLETE FUCKING MESSAGES, LOSER!” ---
**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2003, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-the-message/155163/5 "2003-02-15T06:38:36Z")
Did you by any chance tell him that you might be getting some important calls. I also doubt someone called about a job and just said “This is Sheila.” ---
**Author:** ![coosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@coosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coosa)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2003, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-the-message/155163/6 "2003-02-15T13:42:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kniz \* > \*\*Did you by any chance tell him that you might be getting some important calls. I also doubt someone called about a job and just said “This is Sheila.” \*\* I think **Tuckerfan** is saying that his ‘roomie’ is too ‘mentally challenged’ to comprehend more than 'some chick that said her name was Sheila. I think." “Sheila” may have given him _plenty_ of information, he just didn’t take it in and didn’t think of writing it down. I’ve had to work with a lot of people at the lower end of the IQ scale, and that would be typical behavior. Hopefully it was just a wrong number, or a telemarketer. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2003, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-the-message/155163/7 "2003-02-15T14:18:39Z")
**coosa** , you’ve probably met my roommate, he’s from Alabama. The way he related the information to me was, “Sheila called.” I said, “I don’t know any Sheila.” He said, “She called and asked for you, I said, ‘He’s at work right now. Who’s calling?’ she said, ‘Sheila.’ I said, ‘I’ll tell him you called.’” He _knows_ I’m trying to find another job and that people _might_ be calling for me. There’s _no way_ it was a telemarketer as I’m on the state’s “Do Not Call” list. He’s a fucktard who can’t even figure out how to operate a VCR! Gaaaah! ---
**Author:** ![coosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@coosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coosa)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2003, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-the-message/155163/8 "2003-02-15T15:44:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tuckerfan \* > **coosa, you’ve probably met my roommate, he’s from Alabama.** Met him? Hell, now I’m hoping I’m not related to him! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2003, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-the-message/155163/9 "2003-02-15T16:17:32Z")
I know what that’s like… on at least two occasions, my roommates have gotten people calling about a translation contract, saved it on the machine (when this happens, the machine quits beeping when you pick up the phone - it’s actually a Call Answer service) and forgotten about it. That _really_ helps, folks :rolleyes: