I'm prettier than you are.
Tuesday, 2 July 2002
It's your loss, really

You don't call ... you don't write ...

For all you knew, I could've been bound and gagged all day -- and not in a good way, either. I could've been kidnapped. I could've suffered a heat stroke. I could've slipped and fallen in the tub and broken a hip. I could've tripped over an errant piece of kibble in the hallway and been lying face-down on the hardwood floor for hours, forced to gaze underneath one of the living room sofas at the balls of dust and clumps of dog hair (large enough to fashion into a Lhasa Apso) that taunted me because I could do nothing about them.

Something terrible could've happened to me. But did you call? No.

"Well, you wouldn't've picked up the phone anyway," you argue, "so what would've been the point!"

The point is that you didn't even bother trying. And no, I will not accept the argument that you don't have my phone number. Directory Assistance would had gladly scoured the Yellow Pages for "Jodi in Manhattan".

The least you could've done was write. You could've followed Kim's example and taken the time to send an email. Or Chad's, and checked in with me via an instant message. I would've loved to have taken you all to Coney Island for a ride on the big ferris wheel, but I'm afraid it's going to be just Kim, Chad, and I. It will be Kim and Chad who get the cotton candy and they who get to take home the Aerosmith and Budweiser mirrors I plan to win.

So tell me. What was so important today that you couldn't write? Were you really that busy at work? What's more important to you, anyway -- meeting that deadline, or making sure I'm not lying dead somewhere?


Update (10:34 p.m.): I neglected to include Jack, who sent me email shortly after noon today. Chad ... Kim ... we have a fourth!

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Comments

oh, you mean you were gone?

Offered by: sc0tt on July 3, 2002 11:49 AM

LOL - I guess I sensed fricassee was next!!

Offered by: Zaldor on July 3, 2002 4:01 AM

Scott:

Rock On!

(Behind every rock is someone who tried to hit you with it.)

Offered by: Don on July 3, 2002 3:24 AM

My wife gets taken to Coney Island and all I got was a rock.

::sigh:: Woe is me.

Offered by: Scott on July 3, 2002 12:14 AM

Everyone, please take special notice of Kim's obsequiousness. You could all learn something from her example.

Thank you, Kim. You may sit down now.

Offered by: Miss Lawrence on July 3, 2002 12:00 AM

I brought you an apple for your desk, Miss Lawrence. Do you need any help passing out the tests, Miss Lawrence? I'll help with anything I can, Miss Lawrence.

Offered by: Kim on July 2, 2002 11:49 PM

Well, I am on the West Coast, 3 hrs behind, constantly sick myself and oftentimes out of commission. I have a note from Epstein's mother to prove it!


Jodi, I'm glad you're in one piece and still here to enlighten us.

Offered by: Joan on July 2, 2002 10:55 PM

Oh, Zaldor. You mustn't interpret everything I say/write so literally! Only worry if I fricassee.

Offered by: Jodi on July 2, 2002 10:16 PM

Well, you've expelled me and fired me - I didn't think you wanted me to check up on you... believe me, I wanted to - but had my balls cut off and sliced up before, don't want it done again...

-Z-

Offered by: Zaldor on July 2, 2002 9:51 PM

And don't forget, Chad, you also get to take home a really cool mirror!

Offered by: Jodi on July 2, 2002 9:34 PM

I get to ride on the ferris wheel...I get to eat cotton candy!

;^P

Offered by: cmiper on July 2, 2002 9:00 PM

*considers current wardrobe of yoga pants and old "comfort" tee shirt*

Ummm ... that *could* be a slight problem. ;)

Offered by: Kelly on July 2, 2002 8:05 PM

Just wear somethin' slinky, eh? 'Sall I ask.

Offered by: Jodi on July 2, 2002 7:40 PM

Anything for my favourite drama queen. You name it; you got it.

Offered by: Kelly on July 2, 2002 7:33 PM

There'd better be crepe-paper streamers, damn it. You all OWE me.

Offered by: Jodi on July 2, 2002 7:25 PM

Everyone come on over to my house. I'm throwing a pity party for Jodi. ;)

As for being bound and gagged, I'm not even going to touch that one.

Offered by: Kelly on July 2, 2002 7:22 PM

You know, its when you nag me all the time, that I wish someone would kidnap you and save me the trouble...

Offered by: BooBoo on July 2, 2002 7:21 PM

At least you know those who actually came searching for you yesterday when you got site-napped.

Today? Oh, well I guess I've just been busy.

Offered by: Don on July 2, 2002 7:07 PM