I imagine in the Old West there was a lot of downtime. I mean, look at it: it took hours to ride your horse to the neighbour's ranch or go into town for whatever passed for groceries back then (no shiitakes, that's for sure!)
So your grandfather fell off a cliff at Devil's Pass? Hey, weeks to find out.
Nowadays things are so much faster. So why the fuck did I just call 18 people and they were all too busy to come to the phone?
They were too busy because they don't like you...lol
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That is in a high realm of possibility.
ReplyDeleteThere could be a certain ring of truth to that.
Maybe all their co-workers have been down-sized by attrition and they now have the jobs of 3 people to do because they're scared they'll get fired too?
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