“I’ll risk my five percent to make the right decision. Can you send me an email like you said? And can I call you back at this number?”
“It’s a pool number. That number can’t be transferred to me, though someone could look up your account number, which will be on the email I send you.”
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Much as I wanted to hear her voice again, I wasn’t going on a stinking cruise. I had no interest, as David Foster Wallace put it, in being pampered to death. (I can’t write, but I can read!)
So I ignored her call. She left a voice mail. “Hi A.J., this is Sharon. I’m calling back for your decision. I’ll try you again soon.”
I ignored her call the next night, too.
The email contained a mind-numbing nine different cruises to compare. If you think I put on my green eye shade and listed pros and cons, you
