Is that too much to ask?
Oct. 8th, 2004 09:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dream_labyrinthSooo. On Thursday, I had a missed call on my cell phone. From a phone number I didn't know, so I didn't call back. I also had a message on my mailbox but figured it wouldn't be important, and I was in a rush at that point and the battery was low, so I decided to check that later.
And forgot about it.
Today, I had another missed call from the same number. I remembered the message and checked the mailbox.
It was that guy who wants me to do some translations.
Now what I would like to know is this:
How the heck did he end up with my cell phone number?????
Except my family and a few friends and people from Uni who I needed to get in contact with quickly sometime, nobody has this number. Because I don't want people to bother me any time of day.
The only way anybody could get that number was through my father. So I asked him why he had given out my cell phone number. And he got all defensive and said he didn't, but told his secretary to give my email address (with my agreement) and telephone number (without my agreement) to that guy. And the secretary, I suppose, checked his outlook account or address list in his Palm and found my cell phone number and passed that on.
Whatever happened, it really wasn't my fault. So I don't see any reason for Dad to yell at me. He's the one who's - again - intruding on my privacy.
This might seem like a minor incident, and not worth getting angry about. But as I have stated before, I'm in no state of mind to take any sort of irritation lightly, and I am very concerend about the fact the privacy seems to be a rather unknown word in my family. Makes me wonder why I ended up being so picky about it.
What I would have expected from Dad would have been something like "Oh sorry, there must have been a mistake." Something like that. But he could never ever admit to a mistake, even if it wasn't his own. Unless of course it is a mistake from somebody else that makes him look better.
I wish it was Wednesday and I could do another of these Thai-Bo courses. Working out and kicking an imaginary opponent seems just the thing for me right now.
And forgot about it.
Today, I had another missed call from the same number. I remembered the message and checked the mailbox.
It was that guy who wants me to do some translations.
Now what I would like to know is this:
How the heck did he end up with my cell phone number?????
Except my family and a few friends and people from Uni who I needed to get in contact with quickly sometime, nobody has this number. Because I don't want people to bother me any time of day.
The only way anybody could get that number was through my father. So I asked him why he had given out my cell phone number. And he got all defensive and said he didn't, but told his secretary to give my email address (with my agreement) and telephone number (without my agreement) to that guy. And the secretary, I suppose, checked his outlook account or address list in his Palm and found my cell phone number and passed that on.
Whatever happened, it really wasn't my fault. So I don't see any reason for Dad to yell at me. He's the one who's - again - intruding on my privacy.
This might seem like a minor incident, and not worth getting angry about. But as I have stated before, I'm in no state of mind to take any sort of irritation lightly, and I am very concerend about the fact the privacy seems to be a rather unknown word in my family. Makes me wonder why I ended up being so picky about it.
What I would have expected from Dad would have been something like "Oh sorry, there must have been a mistake." Something like that. But he could never ever admit to a mistake, even if it wasn't his own. Unless of course it is a mistake from somebody else that makes him look better.
I wish it was Wednesday and I could do another of these Thai-Bo courses. Working out and kicking an imaginary opponent seems just the thing for me right now.
