Sometimes, amazingly, it's somebody else besides me who screws up & makes everybody laugh....

Today, my poor overworked boss was trying to catch up on her contact calling. Usually when I say "contact calling" I'm talking about birds sqwalking out to each other and waiting to hear other sqwalks so they can tell where the resf of the flock is.

Actually, this kind of contact calling isn't THAT much different.....

We make follow up phone calls to people who filled out guest cards when visiting the model to find out if there are any questions or new information or if the person just left us a bogus phone number (which happens less often than you'd think) It's especially hard to do contact calls to people you've never met yourself, so I try to leave her good notes. Luckily all my misfiring neruons haven't affected my memory (at least, not yet) so if I'm there while she's making calls I can fill her in on what kind of person it was, and often read the handwriting of people who should have been doctors. This last thing is the only transferable skill I brought with me from the life insurance business.

Anyway, after she made about a hundred of these phone calls, and I'd managed to decipher the phone number, she was talking into someone's answering machine. I think she meant to say "...please don't hesitate to call us" But what she DID say was, "If you have any questions, please don't call us." Then she paused. Then she tried to go on as if nothing was wrong (which she can sort of get away with on account of her accent) but unluckily looked up and saw that I was smiling, whereupon she began to laugh and was finally forced to hang up without completing the message.

"We don't want residents with crappy penmanship anyway." I said, completely deadpan. So it was almost 10 minutes before she could get back on the phone.

That's okay. It was a lousey lead anyhow.