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I have devised a new way of handling telephone calls. And it is ynn arks simply this: About half the time that it rings, I don’t answer it. I tried to retrieve her This wonderful new routine is made possible by our recent purtelephone number, to chase of a telephone with a small screen on which appears, every call her back and tell time the phone rings, the number of her that she had dialed the person who is calling. Far too many calls that come through our the wrong number. line are from someone who wants to sell me something or who wants me to contribute to some cause. “Hey, it’s me,” the voice said. “Give Not answering them seems the easiest way me a call back, son. Love you.” to say, “I’m not interested.” It wasn’t my mother or father. In any Through trial and error, I have devised case, they rarely call me “Son.” It was a a simple system for deciding which calls woman, whose voice I didn’t recognize, to answer and which to ignore. Callers and she wanted to talk with her son, whom who are identified as “Unavailable” never she loves. get a response. They are invariably selling I tried to retrieve her telephone number, or pushing something. to call her back and tell her that she had Similarly, callers whose telephone dialed the wrong number. numbers start out with an 800 area code The 800 number was all the phone and who are identified as “Unknown” could give me, and when I dialed it, I got are good candidates for ignoring. And a machine telling me that I had reached there are some who are honest about their a credit service, and that I had to punch identities — representatives of our grown in the number for whatever extension I children’s alma maters, for example, who wanted. persist in the notion that the tens of thouSo somewhere out there, there is a son sands of dollars we paid for the privilege who did not get a telephone call from his of our offspring attending their fine instimother. And there’s a mother who expects tutions was somehow not enough money a call from her son that she will not get. — to whom I don’t want to talk, despite You can see how this has the makings of a their frankness. tragedy of Shakespearean proportions. For the most part, my new system is Hopefully, everything will turn out. working. But recently, something inexThe mother will realize that her son hasn’t plicable happened. And if it turns into a called her back and will try again, this trend, I’ll have to go back to answering time dialing the right number. Or the son, every ring of the telephone, no matter lonely for his mother’s voice, will call her what the small screen says. without the prompt of her message. A recent call caught me in the middle On the other hand, this could be the of a book and a large bowl of popcorn. final call that the mother, tired of never When I saw that the telephone screen identified the caller as “Unknown” and the hearing back, makes. And her son, weary that she never has caller’s number as starting with 800, I was the time for him, might swear never to dial happy to ignore the persistent ring. her number again. All because I was too Sometime later, when the bowl was selfish to set aside for just a moment my empty and there was a break in the action, book and popcorn. I glanced at the telephone. And the small Strife between a mother and her son red light that blinks when someone has left is too high a price to pay for progress, no a message was doing its thing. matter its benefits. If I have to talk with a Strange, I thought, that someone calltelemarketer now and then to keep peace ing from a toll-free number would leave in a family, even that of a stranger, then a message. But sure enough, when I punched in our special code, there was one so be it. I’m sure those old friends, Unavailable message waiting for me. And that message and Unknown, will be happy to hear my has put into question the efficacy of my voice again. new system.
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