It was a call from off campus. I had better be nice to this one.
I laughed. Do I what? Have a web site? What kind of question is that? While I wasn’t quite sure, this could have been my father, calling me out of the blue on a weekday morning, ever failing to identify himself, simply to ask some inane question about my rarely updated web log. I knew that, with my father, as soon as I answered, “Why yes, I have a web site” I’d be peppered with “Well then, why don’t you update it?” Surely enough, this is what my father would do on the phone this very morning, of all mornings.
But he’s not going to win! I’m not answering this person the way he wants me to. He’s just going to have to guess whether or not I have a web site. So there! I laughed in to the phone, my long and cackling laugh that identifies me across the room in a crowd of hundreds. And in a teasing, taunting voice said, “May I ask who is calling, please?”
Pregnant pause.
“Oh, I’m sorry. I’m from Atlanta, Georgia, and I’m looking for your college’s web site. You do have one don’t you? Aren’t I speaking to the webmaster?”
{Can one actually hear across the phone lines an embarrassed flush rise up one’s cheeks?}
“Uhh . . . yes . . . of course we have a web site. And you’re not my father, are you?”
This is why I prefer to email.
I am sure I’m only one of the millions who decided to tape the West Wing last night and tune into Fox’sTemptation Island instead (or “Temptaion Island,” misspelled, as the producers declared in one screen). So what should appear in my inbox today? “TELEVISION PROGRAMMING HAS SUNKEN TO A DISAPPOINTING LOW.” Tune in tonight to CNN’s Crossfire to discuss this show which features “four unmarried, but serious couples and 26 attractive singles who will vacation in Belize and have their sexual antics recorded for America’s growing population of voyeurs.” Tempt me not!I anted up and paid an exorbitant $20 for a kick-ass Blogger mug, which now sits on my desk at work and from which I’ll be happily sipping my coffee tomorrow. And dag! I’m even lucky enough to get MY blog on their new server!
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