Word: phoning
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...desk phone rings, and as I pick it up, I hear the sound of my boss on the other end. “How does the Mexican peso rank right now?” he asks, as always making sure that I’m on track. I silently applaud myself for having just checked this figure and answer my boss as confidently as possible. “Very good,” he says and abruptly hangs...
...tells Marshall’s prospective employer that he joined the Taliban, he covertly monitors her phone conversations, she cheats on him in his bedroom with his best friend, he tries to sabotage her sister’s wedding by starting a fight at the bachelor party—and this is barely the beginning...
...like a business transaction. He made notes on his Microsoft Outlook task list to get back to me. He signed all his e-mails with “Regards, David.” Like clockwork, he’d call every morning, lunch hour, and evening. He answered the phone with his full name. My boyfriend wasn’t predictable; he was robotic. We were sleeping together, but it was the most impersonal relationship I’d ever been...
...better terms. In the aftermath of our breakup, he admitted that he treated me “horribly” and was a “huge jerk.” Now 3,000 miles apart, we still bicker over politics and feminism on the phone, but we’ve come to accept that we’ll always have our differences...
...hoping to change your mind. Since January 2006, UHS been sending out personalized birthday cards to Harvard students when they turn twenty-one. The cards come with a list of “21 things to do at Harvard before you graduate” and a resource card with phone numbers and the familiar shtick about how you can avoid getting in trouble for drinking if you get so wasted that you almost die. Even better, there’s a promotion for a free appetizer at Daedalus for those celebrating the big event. “It?...