o tempora, o mores!

Gotta love these people who call and won’t give any info.

Riiing[ringringbananaphone?].
“Hello?”
“Hi, is John there?”
“He isn’t really available at the moment, may I take a message?”
“It’s a personal business matter.”
“Surely, but how can I let him know you called if I have no information by which to tell him? Who is this?”
[She gives some generic name.]
“Well, that’s great…but that doesn’t tell me anything. What’s your affiliation? We don’t accept solicitations, and many come under the guise of, ‘This is personal business.’”
“UCI. I’m not trying to sell you something, if that’s what you mean.”
“And again, that tells me nothing. Is this regarding his recent hospitalization?”
“It’s a personal matter.”

I don’t have the time/patience to dance around these morons. My parents don’t answer numbers they don’t know, and I only do in case it IS something important. A simple, “yes,” to the hospital bit, if it was that, would’ve gotten them where they needed to be. It isn’t as if I was demanding details.