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Rise and Shine in the Dogpound
not a telemarketer, then they would
Dogpound leave a voice mail message and I would THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
then return there call. The other day
2018 I got one of those calls…actually an “The single biggest problem in commu-
800 number…so I let it roll to voice
nication is the illusion that it has taken
place.” – George Bernard Shaw
mail…and they left a message. I pulled
By Walter “JR” Wilson up the message and someone started
ello and welcome back to a food, and they are finding more oil every talking 90 mph…I mean he sounded IS IT COLD?
like the guy at the end of the television
wonderful new year in the day. Maybe 3000? LOL Anyway, one advertisement for some kind of My husband and I purchased an
HDogpound. Whenever we roll thing that might kill a few of us are the medication. You know…they have like old home in Northern New York State
over a new year I think back to the year continued marketing calls on our cell 15 seconds to squeeze in 10 potential from two elderly sisters. Winter was fast
of 2000, the year that was always the phones. I have one that calls me several side effects. It comes off sort like this... approaching and I was concerned about
target of gloom and doom. Remember times a week and they have gotten very you might experience stomach prob- the house’s lack of insulation. “If they
Y2k, where all of our computers were creative. They used to call from out of lems and if they persiststop taking the could live here all those years, so can
going to go “blink” and airplanes would state…so I knew by the area code that medicine and see your doctor etc. Then we!” my husband confidently declared.
be falling out of the sky. By the time it was not a normal call and refused to throw in for good measure a heavy One January night the temperature
2000 rolled around we would have more answer it. Then they got sneakier…they accent I could not begin to make out plunged to below zero, and we woke up
people than this earth could support figured out how to make the number clearly what was being communicat- to find interior walls covered with frost.
creating massive world-wide shortages look like a local number calling, and if ed…even after several attempts. Oh My husband called the sisters to ask how
of food, and if that did not kill us off, that was not enough…they can make well..I figured it was a telemarketer they had kept the house warm. After a
then using up all the available oil on the last four digits different each time so and would not lose any sleep over it. rather brief conversation, he hung up.
this plant would certainly finish the it looks like a new call versus a repeat Then a few days later the same person “What did they say?” I asked. “Well,” he
job. Well, seventeen years later, our call. As for me…if it is not identified called me again...I let it roll over…he muttered, “for the past 30 years they’ve
computers are still running, we have in my phone list…then I do not answer left a message…and I struggled again gone to Florida for the winter.” [Does
grocery stores filled to the brim with it…assuming…if it was for me and but I stayed with it since I figured it not sound like a bad idea right now!]
was important enough to call me back
twice. I finally got the number and I think that is enough for today. As
called him back…comes to find out …I always be good, do good, play safe and
had ordered some replacement blades remember to always make sure that your
for my razor and they could not deliver brain is engaged before you put your
to my post office box…and wanted my mouth in gear.
physical address. Well…why didn’t
you say so in the first place??? LOL JR

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