THE LATEST THING TO IRK ME.....

Good Morning my loyal readers (and disloyal readers that I force to read my blog by signing you up for a subscription)

This morning I am in quite a tizzy.

Yesterday morning I posted my upcoming book sale (aka garage sale of only books) on Craigslist and since it's more or less a garage sale, I placed my address in the listing.

BECAUSE.... how can I expect anyone to come to the garage sale if they don't know where it is...

well, don't you know... this pecker, called me on the phone (my phone number was NOT listed in the listing... not because I was remiss... but by design) and said, "I saw you are having a book sale this weekend can I ask you a couple of questions?"

I looked at the phone.

I wondered. Had early Alzheimer's finally taken hold? Had I placed my number in the ad even though I had clearly listed all of the details needed by an prospective attendees?.... did I put in my number?

I looked at the phone.

I said, "H-how did you get my number?"

He replied, "Oh, I just did a reverse lookup"

I looked at the phone.

Now, contrary to popular belief, I am quite an accommodating person and rather than give him a piece of my mind (which according to all of the psycho murder suspense movies I have seen, may just make matters worse), I answered his questions... which ranged from:

Questions that were clearly answered by reading the ad
to
Questions that were clearly answered by reading the ad

I got off the phone, and went to my Craigslist ad and promptly added: "Please do not reverse lookup my phone number, if you have any questions you may ask when you come to the book sale. "

I actually typed... and then removed "besides it's pretty creepy" I removed this primarily because I was afraid of pissing off any potential psycho murder freaks out there...

And so, I am irked.

Isn't that a shame. Simply terrible... that I can't have a garage sale and advertise it in a local free classified... because... THE FREAKS CAN FIND ME, AND CALL ME... USING REVERSE LOOKUP.

Anyway, I have thought and thought and thought... (you know when I woke up this morning at 3:00am worried that I heard something and that it might be a psycho freak trying to get to the books before the sale).... thankfully I have a vicious dog. A vicious dog who will be tethered to the fence snapping and snarling at all book sale comers. Hopefully any would-be psycho-path will not accept the challenge of the vicious gnawing jaws and will simply purchase his books and go reverse look-up someone else.

AND that... is the latest thing to irk me.

Ms. Knowitall

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