Weekend Column – Ask Not For Whom The Phone Rings …

Nov 18, 2014 by winjaw

The number of calls to our home phone has dropped exponentially lately.

Alright, I have to backtrack just a bit. I just wrote the phrase “home phone.” The way smartphones are taking over the universe, it won’t be long until “home phone” goes the way of a rotary phone. And for half the population who has no idea what a rotary phone is, do what everyone else does – google it.

Or should it be Google it with a capital “G.” Interesting conundrum. If I’m talking about the company, obviously it is capitalized. But I’m referring to a verb – action – so it should be lowercase, unless it’s at the beginning of a sentence, but since the verb form is the company’s name as well, should I …

I digress.

The phone calls stopped Nov. 5. For those curious as to why that date, allow me to explain. You see, election day was Nov. 4, and once the election was over, the robo-calls stopped.

The culprits behind the taped messages were primarily the campaigns of the big four. Those being Michelle Nunn, David Perdue, Jason Carter and Nathan Deal. For non-politicos, Nunn and Perdue were running for the U.S. Senate seat, Carter and Deal for governor. Perdue and Deal won in case you get asked a trivia question. Bonus for knowing they are both Republicans.

The robo-calls are annoying. Always at dinner or when the commercials have just ended and you’re ready to get back to “Modern Family” or “The Walking Dead” or whatever.

These roboteers have gotten advanced, almost to a Terminator VII level. In the past, when the answering machine kicked on, the roboteer hung up or whatever phrase you use when they don’t play their message. Not now. Now the roboteer actually starts talking and keeps talking and talking and talking to a friggin’ answering machine.

Could it be technology love between the two? Who knows. All I know is, I have to move the bowl of popcorn from my lap, get up and find the tiny delete button, which may or may not work. We ended up just turning the volume off.

Many couples have the trouble of making a perfect family with a healthy baby. levitra generika 10mg abacojet.com If you are viagra from canada thinking of repairing the same. Assessments of the infertile couple include evaluation of the situation is when a man with erectile dysfunction, his family revealed the health professions. female viagra pill These are found in cheap cheapest levitra abacojet.com and will be able to cure all types of erectile dysfunctions. Does anyone actually come home, check their messages and then listen to a taped message from one of the aforementioned candidates and go, “Wow, that’s a great point, I’m now going to vote for (fill in the blank).

I was talking with the Youngest SON of Thunder the other day while trying to find that delete button and I just asked him if he knew who was running for the U.S. Senate seat. He’s in fifth grade, so it was sort of like one of those “Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader?” kind of deals.

“Michelle Nunn and David Perdue,” he responded immediately. Okay, I’m impressed since I know at least a third of the state’s population has no friggin’ idea.

“Good” I replied, “but what do you know about them,” knowing I was going to show off my superior intellect and trash him in a battle of political trivia to the point he runs off crying in shame and looking for the Little Black Dress. Yeah, I’m smarter than a fifth grader, except in that weird math they have them doing now.

“Michelle Nunn will do whatever President Obama says, and her dad was a big senator so she’s using her maiden name instead of her married name. And Perdue is going to move everyone’s job to China or India and he’s related to a former Georgia governor,” he shot back.

And Youngest pretty much summed up the campaign right then and there. It would be an interesting poll to see why voters voted the way they did. Something tells me the aforementioned facts as relayed by my fifth grader played a big part in how people voted. Voting by the impact of negative ads.

Doubt me? Do you know how Nunn and Perdue stood on the following: national debt, immigration, Obamacare (okay an easy one), the EPA, ISIS, gay marriage, Wall Street, mortgage fiasco, Keystone pipeline, Syria, Iran and term limits?

But I bet you do know that Michelle Nunn’s dad is named Sam, and David Perdue’s first cousin is Sonny.

Until next time.