Dear dimwit on the phone

That's better than "ummm...sorry..." Click.

 

Usually if I prove the caller wrong, he or she will either swear at me and hang up, or just not say anything at all and hang up.

 

True....on both replies. His daughter, a basketball and tennis player, is a class act, so thinking back I wasn't surprised to hear of the way he reacted.

 

Old lady calls up to complain about our auto racing coverage, as in we shouldn't have it at all because, in her words, "Who cares?"

 

Hearing or reading "who cares?" is a great indicator that I'm not dealing with reasonable people who consider there may be other people with interests outside their own. The attitude of willful ingorance and conceitedness seems like it's getting worse.

And to beat you to the punch ... "Who cares?"

 

I think I might actually be ruining a kid's chance at a scholarship! I got an email from a woman today who said that the stats the softball coach calls in are almost always wrong. She just knows her kid's stats are better. AND she is sending clips to coaches but can't send as many as she wants because they don't mention her daughter.

I'm not surprised by this. I saw it coming when her daughter first moved up to the high school. I'm only surprised she waited 18 games into the girl's junior year (her first year of varsity) to start complaining.

 

You're doing it on purpose, too! You insensitive sonuvagun!

 

Just doing my job.

 

Not very well, if you ask ME!

 

We had a volleyball parent do this. Oh, and she's on staff at the paper.

 

I have been very, very fortunate not to have been in that situation where a staffer is also a parent. However, there's been a sales rep who was a volleyball official. But she always drew matches in places an hour or more away for whatever reason.

 

Luckily, her daughter graduates this year. No more asking for stats to see what the coach had for the daughter's stats before a 5 minute rant about how the coach plays favorites and shorts her daughter in the stats!