The phone call I got from a collection agency..

I can remember some time ago being harassed by a debt collector. First it started with these letters that had urgent stamped in red on the envelope. And inside would be this short memo that read, did you misplace pay your bill?

Did you forget to send in your check? After three months of that I started receiving these phone calls from a very concerned billing clerk, who said, hello Sue? It’s Melanie. I just called to verify your billing address and by the way are you still working at the same company and is their phone number still 555-1223 and do you still bank at …? We’re having trouble with our computer system and I just want to verify all of your information again. This is normal. It’s just routine.

Less than an hour after I hung up the phone, someone a little less pleasant called. He didn’t start with hello, he began with, Sue you ought to be ashamed of yourself. You are the only women in this country that doesn’t pay her bills on time. How does that make you feel? To be so irresponsible? I’d like to know what you are going to do about this problem you’ve created? I know you at least have 100 dollars you can give me today, right? You can sell some of that stuff in there.

I started to look around the room. Can this guy see me?