Shaquille Gotford, please phone home
Today was one of those days when I had to bucket the phone in order to achieve any schooling. Caller ID enables me to avoid chatty calls, sales calls, calls for the girls from friends who do not keep regular hours...... Perhaps it is the phase of the moon, we were all a bit prickly and Pavlovian. We all jumped and someone would go running to look at the Caller ID every time the phone rang. When I could take no more I took the phone off the hook. What damage could occur in the hour remaining until lunch?

Fran came home from work ten minutes early because of her concern that all calls home were going to voice mail. She reconnected the phone in time to take a call from the school that Martha had a migraine and needed to be brought home. Ooops.

I just got done checking the voice mail. 3 hang ups, 2 calls for Fran, 2 calls of a highly suspect(Mr. Collector, Mr. Bill Collector?) and what sounded like a bill collector calling for Mr. Shaquille Gotford. Because this is a confidential matter, these callers never wish to discuss with us that we know no Shaquille - not now, not ever. Women also call here looking for Shaquille. We’ve had our number for over four years, but Shaquille’s calls have been coming in for about six months. Will everyone please start checking their area codes....I know who lives here and SHAQUILLE ISN’T HERE!

Note to self: Learn how to set phone so it goes to voice mail after one ring.