Nothing personal here, just something that came to me as I tried to dissuade the cold caller from continuing
She looks at me, just so,
Eyebrows moving up and down
Her shoulders just down.
The caller asks about solar panels:
Do I think they’re important?
She turns away and picks up a mag
While I acknowledge they are.
He wants my views on fuel bills.
She wants my answer.
I try to say goodbye – don’t I care?
What does he know?
I might be
Bathing a baby
Taking a cake from the oven
Undertaking open heart surgery
Pressing a button
And obliterating somewhere dusty
And undemocratic.
Doesn’t he care?
She looks at me, empty eyes,
And walks away,
Her eloquent silence saying
‘I couldn’t care less.’
I can relate to this, GEoff. Sometimes I feel like I can no longer care.
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Sad isn’t it!?
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But Dog cares! He does, he truly does!!
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I think he sensed fresh meat…
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Those guys on the phone deserve a dial tine.
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It would help if we knew
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Obviouly should be tone.
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We guessed as much
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😊
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Dog looks a little put out himself.
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Not entirely happy, that is true.
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Everyone has to earn a living. If it keeps them off the streets …
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If it keeps them off my phone….
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I wonder how much we’d have to pay them to keep them off our phones. 🤔
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Dog should deter anyone – he does look menacing. We only get ex-offenders and such trying to unload cleaning materials. One once got really aggressive and threatened to kick all our flowers down.
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Yes we’ve had a few of those, a couple of jehovahs and one trying to persuade me to join the Lambeth against fascists and GM soya party (I might have that slightly wrong). Since the Monster Ravers stopped standing I was almost tempted
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I’m with John above.
Almost all I need to know from a cold caller is that they are one.
Click! Buzzzzzzzzz!
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I have this urge to flex my sarcasm but it never pays. Yes brrrrrr is the answer
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It excellent Geoff, reminds me of a certain style I cannot place. It’s beautiful, a couple at odds with a third party unwittingly aggrevating the rift. …that’s what I see anyway.💜💜💜
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Perfectly assessed. Good to blame the third party!!
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Well that leaves us blameless 😑
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Love the ‘Dog giving the cold-caller the stink-eye’ shot. 😀
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He’s mostly on my side!!
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Nice job for a quick cold call. Way too many of these every day (calls not poems). I don’t answer anymore. Though now I might as a way to motivate me to write poetry. 🙂
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It drives me bonkers …
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