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Nope, it's one phone call period. One call that's not returned (and since everyone has caller ID, that's one phone call period).



Actually, here in the UK live caller ID is far from universal. We have a dial-back service, but it only gives the last number that called and if you weren't around to hear the phone ring you're not going to dial it.


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Right now, I'm dealing with a chica pulling a Seinfeldian routine: we went out once, and I didn't really like her that much (we'd known each other a few years ago, and the years have not been kind. She looks like a screaming skeleton with a dried yet oily layer of greasepaint stuck on her skull.) Her birthday was the next week, and she kept calling to see if I would take her out. The only thing I could feel watching her number pop up on caller ID was (a.) annoyance and (b.) disgust at the whiff of desperation. We went out once: get a fucking friend.



No offense Arab, but you're a lawyer so such behavior is not entirely unexpected. Let her down gently or hard - it's your call, but be a man. Just avoiding her is fucking spineless. In any case, the point of my original post was not to dwell on my past woes (lessons were learned, I assure you), it was to illustrate the way some chicks like to conveniently misuse the fashionable term "stalker". You must surely acknowledge that you couldn't reasonably accuse her of stalking until you'd made it clear you didn't want to see her.


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So no, she wasn't right to manipulate history, but believe me, abide by the Brass Rule and you'll never have that problem. One phone call, and if it's not returned, then have a nice life.



Well, you're correct that I would never have that problem again. But applying it in reverse, I imagine many people concluding that I'm I blowing them off when I have no intention of doing so.
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