Yes, it's been a week. I can hardly believe I'm really posting. I've been going in too many different directions lately. Well, it doesn't take much for me to get overwhelmed. I have a very low tolerance for stress.
I went to get a Bush bumper sticker at the Republican headquarters and walked away with a bunch of phone numbers to call -- 250 people! -- don't quite know how that happened, LOL. Anyway, I'm letting Jason make the calls. I did a few, but it really freaks me out to call people. I would starve if I had to earn a living making phone calls. I told him to make as many of the calls as he wants. After he gets bored, the list is going into an envelope and getting mailed back. If I don't do that, that lady will talk me into more phone calls.
I also volunteered to hem some baby quilts for a church service project, plus I'm making cloth diapers and diaper covers for my grandson, while also making wedding gifts for a former student in my Sunday School class.
And then I got woke up by a call this morning from a friend who wanted me to babysit her 11-year old -- not a big deal, but it is just one more thing.
Anyway, I've griped enough. I think the biggest stress is the whole phone call thing. I really hate it when I agree to do something and then I don't follow through...
Okay, Jason has also had enough of the phone calls, so the lists are in an envelope with a note to get mailed back. I'm such a coward.
Posted by 2Flower at August 18, 2004 10:24 AMChores like that are why I avoid republican headquarters. Well it's one reason why.
Posted by: Steve at August 18, 2004 10:38 AM...so I'm guessing you've never had to cold call before? Trust me, after the first 50 you'd be so bored there'd be no fright left. ;)
Posted by: pam at August 19, 2004 08:54 AMI hate the people that sell and corner you into doing that in the first place.
Like donating money or buying tickets to something. Like the police and firefighters from OTHER areas that call me asking for donations. I try to politely explain that both me and my husband are GREATLY involved in our township and my hubby is a vol fireman. That is how we donate. THat just makes them mad. Once they start shouting, I hang up.
I think meeting those kind of people face to face, even if you did want to help would do me in!
Hey, hey, hey, I'm a first time visitor and just wnated to say I'm voting for Bush! Go Bush!
Posted by: tammy at August 19, 2004 12:45 PMI've heard that stuff is very effective, not so much because the calls change peoples minds as because they lock in the idea that people's votes are important, that they should vote even if it's inconvenient.
Posted by: David Weisman at August 24, 2004 11:53 PM