| Mar. 29th, 2005 @ 01:58 pm A phone call |
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Almost Next Door: Hi, Almost Next Door here. I was wondering if you need some hay for the horses.
Me: [Trying to resist the temptation to ask whether our overweight elephant-sized monsters look as if they need any more hay or aren't being fed enough.] Kind of you to ask, but we've already bought plenty of feed for the summer and autumn.
Almost Next Door: Well, it wasn't that good anyway. A bit mouldy.
Me: Besides, we only use haylage [as you should know, as you've been told at least once].
Almost Next Door: By the way, are you and X both unemployed these days?
Me: [rolling my eyes] Er... I don't think we've ever been that.
Almost Next Door: But you're at home all the time, aren't you?
Me: ...and working all day, yes.
Almost Next Door: But not working for someone else, see.
So what's this logic then -- working at home = unemployed? Some of the locals seem to think it's way cool to run your own business, but a freelancer equals unemployed (as if people are working at home only because no-one will have them at a "real" job, when in fact the situation is quite the opposite for most people.)
I wonder if someone who's both a freelancer and runs her own business (i.e. me) is too complicated a thought for the local gossips. |
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