And I do mean this in the best possible way. Not in the Special Needs category. As the mom of an Aut/ADHD/Manyotherthings kiddo, this is not what I mean by dumb. No. I mean, the no common sense kind of dumb. And especially the *DELIBERATELY DOESN’T CARE ABOUT YOU* kind of dumb. As in “I work at a call center and while that is no fault of anyone’s, I have taken it upon myself to randomly switch on my autodialer at fuck-all o’clock in the morning and let it dial *WHEREVER.* No. Really. The recordings are now computerized in such a way that if you say certain words they respond with preprogrammed responses, but they don’t hang up. They do, however, lose their posh Brit accent. Apparently, whomever recorded the response to “Are you fucking kidding me?” was American, with a trace of Spanish hint.

But they still *needed* me to know that I still have time to sign up for some Medicare garbage. (Yeah, first of all, all those Healthy Food Card calls are scams. “Just please give us all your details! Social Security number, Birthday, mother’s maiden name, passwords, credit card info, right big toe measurement, how many hairs you have in your left eyebrow, oh, and which side of your mouth you prefer to chew on.” Secondly, I doubt we’ll even *HAVE* Medicare in a year the way Trump is carrying on. I don’t know about everyone else, but I kinda want to start stuffing my mattress with actual gold and silver bars.) So, no. I will not let you just “take a moment of my time.” You woke me up being all Posh Spice, then when I asked you if you knew what the hell time it was, you were like “oh, I am sorry if I called at a bad time.” Yes, Ass-crack of dawn is a bad time to scam people.

Then *ANOTHER* idiot called not even 90 minutes later trying the same thing. Only it was a human. I just hung up on him. I was busy getting my neighbor’s kid on the bus. No time for idiots.

……speaking of putting money away in mattresses, I wonder how much my coin collection is worth. Not much, I’d say. But they are fun to look at. Too bad none of them are ‘rare.’ Anyone like to trade international coins?