On Being a
Farm Wife
(and other hazard:
Joyce Bupp
One of “those” days, is it?
Maybe the light bulb blew
when you switched it on after the
alarm rang this morning? A ring
ing phone woke you from a
sound sleep in the middle of the
night, only to be a wrong num
ber? The back left tire on your
car looked low ... or had gone flat
overnight?
While stumbling across the
kitchen floor in your bare feet,
you bruised your big toe stepping
on one of those plastic bricks left
by the kids (or grandkids). Or
slipped on a stray, lost grape. The
only thing the mailman brought
other than a stack of junk mail
was a sizeable, unexpected bill.
You discovered that the stray cat
you befriended has gifted you
with a litter of six kittens in your
garage. And, when you grabbed
your favorite t-shirt, it had a
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stain on the front?
We all have days like that.
Here on the farm, one of “those”
days might entail stray heifers
ripping bags of feed apart or
calves stuck backwards in birth
canals or a blown tractor motor
or having some nasty piece of
metal go through the knives of
the forage chopper and tear their
honed cutting edges to shreds.
And, then it happens.
You drop what you’re doing in
the middle of a job to answer the
ringing phone, and no one is
there. And it’s irritating as the
dickens.
An e-mail message forwarded
by a friend last week suggests
that the nobody-on-the-other-end
calls are often part of the tele
marketing industry’s research,
designed to surface the most like
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is likely to answer a particular
number. And, the e-mail has a
suggestion on how to confound
the system and get your number
dumped out of it.
What this message suggests is
that, when no one is on the other
end of a call received, we punch
the pound sign button quickly for
several, maybe six or eight times.
This action supposedly confuses
the dialing computer, which in
turn loses that phone number.
Gee, I don’t know if it works
or not. But, I’m going to give it a
try.
You might want to, also. Espe
cially if you’re having one of
“those” days and punching out
something might be welcome.
But please don’t pound the
“pound” button so hard you mess
up your phone. This column
doesn’t want to be responsible for
your phone not working.
Now, on to all those “pre-ap
proved” letters for credit or credit
card protection or insurance or
whatever that arrive daily in our
mailboxes. They generally have
self-addressed, pre-stamped re
turn envelopes. My friend’s e
mail suggests that you thought
fully return to the company not
only their own junk mail, but
maybe others you got that day.
I have actually done this at
times on “those” days over
the years. But you probably want
to carefully remove anything
with your name or any kind of
account number on it first.
If we all did this across the
country, think how it would stim
ulate returns to the U.S. Postal
Service. Why, the extra volume
could possibly even help to delay
the next postage price increase.
Consider yourself a consumer
oriented patriot.
And, y’know all those glossy
little advertisements you get with
utility bills and credit card
statements? My friend’s e-mail
further advises to ship those back
with our regular payments (just
don’t overweight your envelope
that it ends up costing you more
money). The senders can have
the thrill of re-opening and dis
posing of what they originally
shipped out.
What fun!
So do your part to keep the
outfits that insist on littering our
lives, and our office desks, with
all their unwanted stuff busy
dealing with its return and fall
out. Help turn one of “those”
days for you back into one of
“those” days for the mass mar
keters who pay a lot less to send
their stuff per piece than do you
and I.
Just think how many trees you
might help to save.
And landfill space.
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