Wow. So it’s been a long time since I looked at a stream of consciousness prompt and thought nope, don’t see it, I can’t do this one. I mean, there’s usually some wiggle room, there’s some kind of way to make things work, but this one? This one’s a non-starter.

This week’s prompt is “last call.” Talk about the enterprise (sales or service) conducted by the last phone call you received from a business you’re not associated with (i.e. your workplace), or talk about that phone conversation itself. Have fun!

So here’s the problem: I don’t answer calls. Period. If I don’t know your number or have a heads up that I’m receiving a call from an unknown number – and I’ll full on admit answering those makes me jumpy as hell – I.do.not.pick.up.the.call. I used to get a lot of voicemail messages about being approved for a bank loan or some mess like that. Guess I must have shown up on some list of folks with big dreams; either that or some loanshark bank is looking to gamble on someone they think they can charge interest out the wazoo on. Guess I dropped back off the list, too, since the voicemails stopped a while ago.

Can you tell I’m crushed?

So I’ve been thinking further back trying to remember sales calls and I swear, I seem to have wiped them all from my memory. Like, entirely. I know they must have existed, I remember kicking people off the phone after trying to politely extricate myself from the conversation, but I cannot for the life of me remember what those conversations were about.

So, like I said, it’s a non-starter. Happy Saturday!

Linda hosts Stream of Consciousness Saturday. This week’s prompt is “last call.” Talk about the enterprise (sales or service) conducted by the last phone call you received from a business you’re not associated with (i.e. your workplace), or talk about that phone conversation itself. Have fun!”