The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
Lately I've been going nuts over this contractor who is supposed to come out and fix the siding that fell down last month. I've been on the phone with him at least a few times a week and left countless messages for him all month. He's been lying and avoiding my calls for a month now. And all these calls I'm making to him from my cell are costing me money. Well, this morning at 2am I had an idea. I put his cell phone number into my aol im buddylist and i sent him three text messages at 2am! Each one said "WE NEED THE SIDING FIXED FIRST THING IN THE MORNING." And then I woke up this morning at 7:30 and got started again, right away: "WE NEED THE SIDING FIXED FIRST THING THIS MORNING." I text messaged him exactly twice every fifteen minutes, with exactly the same message again and again, just tweaking the wording a bit so it wouldn't register as a 'duplicate messsage' in his phone. I wanted his inbox to fill up completely. After a couple hours of this he finally called me and didn't mention the texting, he only said "I'm sending my guy over right now." That was at 10'oclock, and since his guy still hadn't shown up at 1'oclock, I began the barrage of texting once again! This time saying, "YOUR GUY STILL ISN'T HERE AND IT ABSOLUTELY NEEDS TO BE DONE BY 2 O'CLOCK." just over and over and over again. Since its on IM its not costing me anything and its as easy as pressing a key on my keyboard. I think he was quite surprised just how well I kept it up, because he finally sent his guys out and they're fixing it right now, as I post this...