The implication that there was a box directly outside the window, prepared for this exact scenario
Should have been three rocks instead.
If you can relate to this, please remember that it’s okay just to say “no”.
Let politeness go out the window instead.
“No, Mrs. Adams, I don’t want to run errands for you. Goodbye”.
You can also be polite while setting boundaries
I had a friend who used to help out an old lady like this in his neighborhood. She had no children and when she died she left him a couple million dollars and her house. He had no idea she had anything.
"I have the most egregious runny shits right now, I’ve been blowing up the dunny all day with yellow slime.*
Classic
The efforts you had to go through without mobile phones…
Fun fact: Mobile phones existed in 1948.
I wish I could find this again, but there’s a Pathe newsreel from 1946 or thereabouts that shows the coming wonders of mobile phones. It even has a man at the grocery store calling his wife to ask what brand of beans she wants. Of course the “phone” was basically a walkie-talkie with a huge backpack, but they had the principle exactly right.
You almost sent me on another wiki-surfing journey. Nice try, ADHD!
The first phone thing weighed 80 lbs. Lol
It took me a second to realize the implications of her speaking from a home telephone.
I’m not the kind of girl who works for free.
