February 15, 2007
Solicitation for guitar lessons
As most of you know, I give private guitar lessons. I do all my advertising on Craigslist and put my phone number up there (but not my name or any indication that I’m female, I don’t want any freaks showing up at my door). In the past 8 months that I’ve been posting my advertisement up there I haven’t had any problems or strange people showing up.
So Tuesday night I’m sound asleep. My phone rings. I always worry about middle of the night phone calls, always assuming it’s bad news or an emergency. I didn’t recognize the number but answered anyway. “Yeah I’m calling about guitar lessons.” .... long pause, my brain is trying to process this ridiculous information… “At 2 in the morning you’re calling about guitar lessons” I say in my tired, you’re a freaking moron voice. He sounds annoyed with me: “uhhh, yeah”. Like, why not be calling for guitar lessons at 2am?! “Could you call back tomorrow?” He sounds even more annoyed as he responds “yeah, I guess.” Needless to say he didn’t call back the next day but I’m VERY tempted to call him very early every morning as soon as I get up to ask if he’s sure he doesn’t want guitar lessons.
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