This was a horrible night. Nearly every American I called---literally coast to coast, bore a greater resemblance to a farm animal than a civilized human being. What is it with Americans and their crap manners??? Well, I know what it is, they don't have any! We have got to be, the laziest, dumbest, most morally back-arsed country of any industrialized nation in the world! I speak as a card-carrying leftest. No, really. I have this card, "LEFTIST." 
Oh, America can be a brilliant nation when she wants to be--but that's just the problem: more and more lately, she doesn't want to be. That would take genuine effort: To think, to care, to act. And we can't have that, oh no! That might interfere with our own selfish, self-centred little lives. We might have to get up off our very well-fed (well, mostly) bottoms and actually MOVE. And, heaven forbid we should begin thinking independently, or abstractly--and God help us, if we should be courteous and respectful--that's a weakness you know. We need to be strong--that's why we have so many guns and hate and bigotry, don't ya' know.
And so help me, if one more little kid, answers the telephone with a surly, totally rude, "Who's this!!" I swear, I'm gonna' reach through the phone line and paddle the wee brat's bottom with a hairbrush--obviously mum and dad don't love them enough, or care enough to do it themselves--or are even dumber than their 6 year old. My late mum would'a had a fit, if a child adreessed her like that--and rightly so. She was a PARENT, not a...zookeeper.
freeasthewind
Being on the phone does make you want to run away and hide. Been off the phne a month and cant say as I miss it. But do need to find a rich man with one foot in the grave and one on a banna peel. Oh well wishful thinking