Sister Someone...
Yesterday my friend Theresa came over to help me clean. I finally got the way downstairs put back to normal. It is usually a workout space; bike, treadmill and stepper with a TV that Howie keeps up with all the latest and older movies on netflix on while he is working out.
I would still rather get up at the crack of dawn and participate in group motivation. (Which I did again this morning at spinning class.) Twice in one week; that officially means it is not a fluke. Yes,I am tired, but I also have such a sense of accomplishment when ten rolls round.
Anyway, we were cleaning and sorting the rest of the boxes that had landed downstairs when the phone rang. Nicole answered it and has beautiful manners when she actually picks up the phone.
"Hello,who is it please?" She queries in her best polite pixie voice.
I just wish she were as good at relaying who she thinks it is to me as she hands me the phone.
"Who is it?" I ask. "I'm not sure. Sister something or other. I don't know. Sister something. You don't have any sisters, though, mom."
I have to admit to being mortified. It was Sister Carol Marie calling about the room we have booked for our church evening of intimacy program. I apologized, she laughed and then I added that we weren't Catholic, for whatever I thought that might be worth. She thought nothing of it,noting that she had been a Kindergarten teacher for years and heard lots of great comments. Not just "Sister someone or other."
But Sister and I had a good chuckle, I offered to stop off in purgatory for awhile, and all was once again well. I'm glad the woman of God I was on the phone with had a sense of humor...
I would still rather get up at the crack of dawn and participate in group motivation. (Which I did again this morning at spinning class.) Twice in one week; that officially means it is not a fluke. Yes,I am tired, but I also have such a sense of accomplishment when ten rolls round.
Anyway, we were cleaning and sorting the rest of the boxes that had landed downstairs when the phone rang. Nicole answered it and has beautiful manners when she actually picks up the phone.
"Hello,who is it please?" She queries in her best polite pixie voice.
I just wish she were as good at relaying who she thinks it is to me as she hands me the phone.
"Who is it?" I ask. "I'm not sure. Sister something or other. I don't know. Sister something. You don't have any sisters, though, mom."
I have to admit to being mortified. It was Sister Carol Marie calling about the room we have booked for our church evening of intimacy program. I apologized, she laughed and then I added that we weren't Catholic, for whatever I thought that might be worth. She thought nothing of it,noting that she had been a Kindergarten teacher for years and heard lots of great comments. Not just "Sister someone or other."
But Sister and I had a good chuckle, I offered to stop off in purgatory for awhile, and all was once again well. I'm glad the woman of God I was on the phone with had a sense of humor...
Labels: answering the phone, nuns with a sense of humor, putting away boxes, sister so and so
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10:50 PM
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My 8-yr-old answered the phone the other day and after listening for a good while (30 seconds?) and not speaking, he finally shouted to us, "Oh, it's just someone wanting money!" and then hung up. They never called back. (Who was it? A computer? a real person? Someone trying to collect? A scammer? A charity? We will never know.)
Our do not call order has expired on our number and I haven't taken the time to make sure we are back on the list. We get barraged by those calls. I don't imagine a computer can be insulted...
We could not determine whether he hung up on a computer or a real person.
The scam here is they will call and say "We have important information on your credit card account. Please wait for a customer service rep." And IF You wait, it takes forever and IF you say anything like "We don't have any credit cards." or "Which credit card?" They will hang up on you. We don't have caller ID, so can't really report it...We are on the do not call list...wish that worked for email!!
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