I have a problem. Well, to be more precise, many problems. But, I will leave that discussion for another day.
The problem I want to discuss today is with people who answer the phone and appear to be dead. Yes, dead. They are lifeless and their voices reflect the fact that they may be living externally but they are, indeed, dead.
Take, for example, the last woman I talked with on the phone in Tennessee. She said, and I paraphrase:
Yes, what do you want? I am a lifeless old bat and am getting really annoyed that you called me about renting a car. I would just hang up on you, but I am too sick and annoyed about my life to do it. So tell me exactly what you want. Quickly, before I hang up or call the cops on you for pestering me when I could be sleeping in the back room.
Really, how hard can it be to pretend to be alive?