Phone Calls & Jane Austen

It really bugs me when dials the wrong number and then hangs up without apologising. Especially when it happens to be my number that they have dialed and I have gone to all the trouble of dropping whatever it was that I happened to be doing, just to answer their call. Like the time I was watching Home and Away and I had just got up to the interesting bit where Alf had just seen Ailsa walk through the diner, despite the fact that Ailsa had been dead several years. (Samuel keeps telling me that I should stop going on about that one, seeing as it was the season cliffhanger from several years ago and Alf has long been cured of the brain tumor that caused him to see dead people and in any case, we both stopped watching Home and Away some time back.) But, anyway, the point is, this is very annoying when someone has been disturbed from their daily routine, just to hear the sound of someone hanging up on them. Or sometimes, you might even be able to hear an ill-educated voice say something along the lines of "Shit" or "Damn" and then the sound of hanging up. And the worst part is, the call has come from a private number, so it isn't like you can call them back at some random time and do the same in return and see how they like that kind of rudeness. Which is a damn shame, because I'm sure a few of them would be horribly, horribly offended.

Anyway, I got three calls of my mobile last night, all from the same idiot who hung up as soon as I answered. Not sure what that was about, but ended up switching the phone off and letting the calls go straight to voice mail. Spent the rest of the evening reading an old dog eared copy of Jane Austen's Emma that I've now owned for so long that the Maripaninga High School Library stamp has just about worn off from the inside cover. Samuel keeps teasing me, saying that the overdue fines must have added up to several thousand dollars by now, but for some reason I've never been able to part with the book...

Then again, maybe it's time to give it back and get myself new copy. I'd hate for my daughters to pick up any of my bad habits.

Can't believe how quickly the time is going. Samuel and I haven't even finished setting up the nursery. So difficult when you have to buy more than one of everything.