I’m not your bud, bud!

Nothing makes me crazier than when someone insists that you did something you know for a fact you DID NOT do.  I can understand an initial impression that one gets when there is confusion but once you have explained what may have happened it is utterly frustrating when a person, especially a stranger, continues to accuse you and pins you as a crazy person.  Here’s the scenario….I am riding down the road with my husband as a passenger in my car with my phone in my cup holder.  Being a total introvert and having had a shit ass week the only outgoing call I made was to my husband at 4:28 pm.  Around 5:04 pm an incoming call comes to me from a “wireless caller”.  Typically I would not bother because I don’t answer to anyone who is not in my contact list but I volunteered myself to organize my mother-in-law’s 80th birthday bash and my cell phone is the number to RSVP to.  (I’ve had more elderly folks call my phone in 3 weeks than in 3 decades) LOL!!  Anyway, I pick up the call with a friendly tone and here we go:

Me:   Hello?

Caller:   Hello

Me:   Hello?

Caller:  Hello

Me:  Who is this?

Caller:  Who is this?

Me:  I don’t know.  You called me.  Who is this?

Caller:  Is this Aunt Amy?

Me:  Um, no.  But who is this?

Caller:  You called me first.

Me:  I just answered your call but this is frustrating.  (I hung up)

 

Figuring that would be the end of it the caller, who sounded like a teenage boy, decided he would like to pursue me by text.  Why, seriously?  I hung up on you.  Why are you now texting me you little twerp and do you even know who you are texting?  But I will entertain your text….  “you called me first btw bud”

How annoying!  I am not your BUD!!  I have already told you I did not call you.  On top of that I have not touched my phone, made any outgoing calls, and the only time I picked up my phone was to answer it and to get your little twerpy ass on the other end.  So, smarty pants proceeds to screen shot me and send me a photo of the incoming call from my phone to his one minute before he called me.  I again told said punk that I did not know him and how funny it was that this outgoing call was not in my call log.  Have you ever thought of call spoofing?  Have you ever thought in this world of technology, the cloud, computers, etc that, I, an almost 40 year old full time working mother with 3 degrees couldn’t possibly know when my cell phone was or was not in my hand and that any of those things may not have been a factor instead.  Or possibly it was aliens or a ghost in my car or the air conditioning from the vent turned on my phone and dialed your digits or maybe, just maybe the freaky phone that just decides to shut off and update when I don’t request it somehow decided to dial you as well because it feels that I am quickly approaching the big 4-0 and maybe you are cougar bait.  Dude, I just don’t know!  I do know I DID NOT call you and you obviously have not been taught any respect or how to mind boundaries as you have no idea the can of worms you could be opening.  Maybe your mom should watch IDTV!  Maybe I am a stalker, a child molester, a kidnapper, even a murderer?  Thankfully I am not.  However, on the other end of the spectrum you could’ve addressed a CEO, FBI, CIA, state trooper, educator, breast cancer survivor, or military member as your BUD?  So, WTF bud?  Fortunately, I did not respond in the same tone as I was responded to.  You were professionally addressed and also put on alert as to who your new “bud” was and that sadly your bud was now blocking you.