answer the phone

I avoided repeated calls from a relative on my cell phone over the weekend. I was angry about a certain issue and didn’t want to talk to this person, who I expected would be fairly emotional. This morning I decided it needed to be addressed so I called and we worked it out. I told her I had been angry rather than just making something up about needing downtime or whatever.

Doing fine so far, but I’ve only received a few calls on my home phone. It helps to have written this goal down. I’ll keep this open until the end of the year.

i hate dealing with telemarketers, poll-takers, etc. who call my phone. i’m on the no-call list, and that works up to a point. but there is some category of callers who are still allowed to call. what is so awful is that the people on the other end are being paid to get money or whatever and are generally working off a script. this makes them unreasonable, and i hate talking to unreasonable people. so, i just hang up on them, sometimes forcefully. i think it’s partly a fear of confrontation, of having to take control of the conversation, to assert myself that i am not interested.

i’d like to be able to not be afraid to answer, just be able to deal with it in a pleasant or at least civil way and to request that they not call me again.