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I should have been in Biscester today, playing games and generally enjoying myself with a bunch of friends. Unfortunately I feel a bit under the weather and decided to stay at home. Somehow I am managing to feel chilly and hot at the same time and have a bit of a headache.

I don't think trailing down the High Street to buy a new answerphone helped; but it had to be done. My old one died a few months ago and it dispensed with my ability to screen callers - I mean I don't get many, since most people call me on the mobile, but I do get the odd bod calling the land line and just recently there's been a spate of people cold calling me and trying to sell me something. Without screening ability I have been able to demonstrate my total inability to be assertive on the phone far more often that I would like.

I really do not know what it is about the old Lea psyche that makes it so dificult for me to tell people to piss off when I don't want to buy anything, but there we are. I have only rarely put the phone down on someone and that's been when they have been inexcusably rude or aggressive. I guess it's because I don't like that sort of behaviour that I find it so hard to just get rid of unwelcome callers. It's not as if I have that problem face to face.

Odd things, telephones.

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I should have been in Biscester today, playing games and generally enjoying myself with a bunch of friends. Unfortunately I feel a bit under the weather and decided to stay at home. Somehow I am managing to feel chilly and hot at the same time and have a bit of a headache.

I don't think trailing down the High Street to buy a new answerphone helped; but it had to be done. My old one died a few months ago and it dispensed with my ability to screen callers - I mean I don't get many, since most people call me on the mobile, but I do get the odd bod calling the land line and just recently there's been a spate of people cold calling me and trying to sell me something. Without screening ability I have been able to demonstrate my total inability to be assertive on the phone far more often that I would like.

I really do not know what it is about the old Lea psyche that makes it so dificult for me to tell people to piss off when I don't want to buy anything, but there we are. I have only rarely put the phone down on someone and that's been when they have been inexcusably rude or aggressive. I guess it's because I don't like that sort of behaviour that I find it so hard to just get rid of unwelcome callers. It's not as if I have that problem face to face.

Odd things, telephones.