The Current State of Annoying

I have yet to actually listen to the messages that have been left on my mailbox, but as there were three calls today -- two from Jen and one from Amy -- I'm not in a big hurry to do so.

Jen's are probably of the 'I just wanted to talk and where are you at?' variety, which is par for the course from her lately. She's been calling here fairly regularly, but I haven't picked up and talked to her in almost a week, so she's sure to be all passive-aggressive with the 'Maybe you don't like me anymore' stuff, which is just an attempt to manipulate my guilt response into calling her back. There is a new dynamic in our relationship now, however, in that I do have a phone number where I can call her back, but am choosing not to call it, which I know beyond a shadow of a doubt is driving her crazy. She expects me to be the good little lapdog and jump at any scraps she's willing to throw my way, and while in the past I was much more eager to talk to her and spend time with her, now that I'm not emotionally involved ... I just don't have that much I want to say to her. That's what happens when you dick me around a little too much.

Amy, on the other hand, is less of a problem. Her message is almost guaranteed to be something like, "Junior (what other people call Cooter) wanted me to call and ask if you could drop whatever interesting thing you're doing and come over here and do him a favor." Said favor would most likely be that Allison has to go back to Amy's mom, and he's too lazy to get off his fat ass and drive her up there, and is hoping I might do it for him, which would be like a 40 mile roundtrip for me, so that he can sit around and look at new four-wheelers to buy on Craig's List. Maybe back when Amy was the other 'little sister' of mine, I might have been persuaded, but as other things have come to pass there, I don't really feel like giving up over an hour on that errand. Besides, have you seen the frikking price of gas lately? If I'm buring that much gasoline right now it's going to be on my own frikking errands.

This is my life right now: phone calls from all the annoying people in the current loop. Whoopita.