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It seems lately I’ve been getting more calls from numbers I don’t recognize. I usually don’t answer them, but I’m dying to know who is calling. The Reverse Phone Directory doesn’t help when the calls are from cell phones and I’m much too nervous to call them back and ask who they are.

Really, I’m left with just the one solution: have a friend in Ohio call the number to find out who it is.

He’s surprisingly willing to do this and is surprisingly good at it. So far none of the numbers have been anything but misdials, but I keep hoping that one day he’ll call a number back to find I’ve been awarded millions of dollars.

He’ll get a slight cut, of course.

Though I hate hate HATE call waiting I still have it activated on my cell phone as a favor to others who do like it. I hate it because I feel pressured to answer another call while I’m already on a call and I feel an equal and opposite pressure to not answer another call while I’m on a call already. I feel voicemail was created for this exact reason. Leave me a message, I’ll call you back.

I also do not answer cals from numbers I don’t recognize, for the most part. If it’s a local number, I’m a bit more inclined to do so, but there’s no guarantees. My cell phone’s caller ID will show the number but will only show a name if it’s one that’s in my address book. If there’s no name, I’m guessing I don’t know you and, again, this is why voicemail was created.

Yesterday I was on the phone with Josh when I heard the call waiting beep. I looked at the number (another thing I hate doing since I have to pull the phone away from my ear to do it) and didn’t recognize it, so I didn’t answer it. A minute later, the beep again: same number. Then again. On the fourth call, I was pretty sure who it was and told Josh, “Hey, I guess I need to answer this.”

I answered it and it was Kat, as I suspected. She knew why I hadn’t answered, as she’s aware of my behavior in both the unknown number and the call waiting situation.

Her pronouncement when I finally answered?

“You have too many quirks.”