Earlier this week, I’d just finished for the day and was driving home when I felt my phone vibrate. When I got a chance to stop and have a look I didn’t recognise the number, so I called back. This was at around 9.45pm – the original call coming in perhaps 10 minutes earlier.<\/p>\n
The call went something like this – imagine a very thick accent, very difficult to understand on the phone:<\/p>\n
Me: Hello, I’ve got a missed call from this number – you called a few minutes ago?<\/em><\/p>\n Him: Yes. I’ve got a driving test tomorrow and I wondered if you were available.<\/em><\/p>\n Me: I’m afraid I’m fully booked tomorrow – what time is your test?<\/em><\/p>\n Note that I have no intention of taking someone I’ve never seen drive to test – I’m just trying to be polite.<\/p>\n Him: 1.30<\/em><\/p>\n Me: No. I’ve got a lesson on right at that time. I’m sorry.<\/em><\/p>\n Him: So you’re not available?<\/em><\/p>\n Me: No. I’ve got lessons all day and one at exactly the time of your test.<\/em><\/p>\n Him: Couldn’t you cancel them?<\/em><\/p>\n Me: No, because a lot of these people have tests of their own coming up and they need to take the lessons. I can’t cancel people like that.<\/em><\/p>\n And he still persisted in trying to persuade me – I suppose that at 9.30pm he must have been getting a bit desperate.<\/p>\n It’s hard to fathom, sometimes, how the minds of some people work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Earlier this week, I’d just finished for the day and was driving home when I felt my phone vibrate. When I got a chance to stop and have a look I didn’t recognise the number, so I called back. This was at around 9.45pm – the original call coming in perhaps 10 minutes earlier. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latestposts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t