How to irritate me
I am one of those people who has to get seven to eight hours of sleep each night or else I am worthless. Well, sometimes I am worthless even with plenty of sleep, but that is beside the point. So last night, I had been asleep for a little over an hour, and the phone rang. It was almost ten o'clock, and when that darn phone rings at night I swear it peirces my very soul. I am sure that someone is dead or maimed. No one was this time, but I wanted to kill or maim the person that called.
It was Brian, the Homeowners Association vice president. Those of you who are my regular readers will know that Andy is the president and I am the secretary/treasurer of the HOA. So he was calling to discuss some mundane crap that certainly could have waited.
The conversation went like this:
Me: "hullo" (in a sleepy pitiful voice)
Brian: "Hi, this is Brian, did I wake you?"
Me: "yes"
Brian: "Well, I wasn't sure of your schedule. I talked to so and so and blah blah blah blah blah.........." ( and about five or six more minutes of blah)
Me: "okay bye"
Not sure of my schedule? Stick your damn head in the window and look across the fucking street, for chrissakes. If you don't see any lights on, I AM ASLEEP!
Brian workes at the space center also (in a different area from me) and knows I work first shift, so he should have known better. Which brings me to the fact that Brian is an engineer. Calling someone at an inappropriate time is a very "engineer" thing to do. No offense, Ramblin' Girl, but I notice that a lot of times engineers (not all of them, but a surprisingly large percentage) do some pretty stupid things. Maybe it is just that they are too wrapped up in their thoughts and don't stop to think about what they are doing before they do things. We have one engineer at work who reportedly peed in the urinal, didn't flush, walked over to the sink, washed his hands and then walked out leaving the water still running in the sink. It's like something just isn't connecting in his brain.
Anyway, it took me almost an hour to get back to sleep after that, thank you very much, Brian. I can't wait till we get out of this association crap. Never again.
It was Brian, the Homeowners Association vice president. Those of you who are my regular readers will know that Andy is the president and I am the secretary/treasurer of the HOA. So he was calling to discuss some mundane crap that certainly could have waited.
The conversation went like this:
Me: "hullo" (in a sleepy pitiful voice)
Brian: "Hi, this is Brian, did I wake you?"
Me: "yes"
Brian: "Well, I wasn't sure of your schedule. I talked to so and so and blah blah blah blah blah.........." ( and about five or six more minutes of blah)
Me: "okay bye"
Not sure of my schedule? Stick your damn head in the window and look across the fucking street, for chrissakes. If you don't see any lights on, I AM ASLEEP!
Brian workes at the space center also (in a different area from me) and knows I work first shift, so he should have known better. Which brings me to the fact that Brian is an engineer. Calling someone at an inappropriate time is a very "engineer" thing to do. No offense, Ramblin' Girl, but I notice that a lot of times engineers (not all of them, but a surprisingly large percentage) do some pretty stupid things. Maybe it is just that they are too wrapped up in their thoughts and don't stop to think about what they are doing before they do things. We have one engineer at work who reportedly peed in the urinal, didn't flush, walked over to the sink, washed his hands and then walked out leaving the water still running in the sink. It's like something just isn't connecting in his brain.
Anyway, it took me almost an hour to get back to sleep after that, thank you very much, Brian. I can't wait till we get out of this association crap. Never again.
posted by Jen at Wednesday, July 20, 2005
7 Comments:
I hate it when peope call after 8:00PM let a lone 10:00 - but the only thing worse than being woke up at night by the phone, is being woken up on a Sunday (My only day to sleep in) morning by your mother in law. Sumamabitch!
C'mon. If you're not in the homeowner's association, we won't get to enjoy these fun memes! I vote that you take an honorary lifetime position.
Found you through Katy, that wild wack job! ;)
I have to agree with Jeremy...after 8 PM and you had better be a blood relative or like you said I'm expecting news of birth, death or serious maiming!
absent.canadian, I am a glutton for punishment, but not that much!
Mama Duck, I have visited your blog through Katy as well. Glad you found me.
HEY!!!!
alright, and as an engineer I agree with you. there are many engineers (and other professional people who are uber-intelligent) who seem to only be good at their analytical job, not so good at the everyday business of life.
but watch the stereotyping... some of us engineers are awesome and considerate and have common sense and...
;~)
RG, good argument. I always make it a rule never to call people after 9 unless they tell me it's okay.
RG, of course I know you are not the stereotypical engineer. You are perfect and wonderful. But you know what I mean about engineers doing dopey things.
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