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   🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 (grumpybozo@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 08:02:32 JST 🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦

   Well, there’s the day ruined for me.
   Dude came to the door offering tree trimming, which, yes, we do visibly need.
   It was not a thing I was thinking about today.
   I failed the masking test. Not sure exactly why or how, but he seemed put off by… something. I didn’t think I said/did anything rude, but he got a bit huffy…

   And it’s bugging me like crazy.

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     Royce Williams (tychotithonus@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 08:02:30 JST Royce Williams

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     @grumpybozo Part of the less-ethical sales-pressure API is to push social/guilt buttons to incent giving in. You very likely did nothing to trigger it (other than saying no). I wouldn't give it another thought.

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     🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 (grumpybozo@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 08:02:31 JST 🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦

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     This is why SWMBO handles this shit. She manages dealing with humans much better than I do. I passed her his card. She was busy.
     My deeply instinctual distrust of everything is not consistent with independent living. If I wasn’t married, I’d need an inpatient accommodation.

     Minoru Saba repeated this.
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     🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 (grumpybozo@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 08:02:32 JST 🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦

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     It’s the second time I’ve had a random solicitation for work around the house this Summer and the second time I’ve said/done *something* I don’t recognize as problematic but which has generated a negative attitude.
     I guess maybe my bewilderment (and mild annoyance) at the pitch and its unexpectedness is evident? Is it so obvious that I’m not going to sign a contract at the moment? Or do a handshake agreement? Or engage in any sort of affirmative executive function?