It's unpredictable for me. At first it was really relaxing because it's so satisfying in that weird sim way. I go through spates of playing way more than seems reasonable, thinking about it a lot, and then sometimes I'm too tired to take other people through their daily chores... I like to say, "I live to live" when I'm playing too much. But when my own life is too busy, I don't want to add my sims' lives to my own. I just came back from several days at my cabin - in the mountains, on a river - and get this, there's no television, there's no e-mail! there's no internet. No cell phone service. No CD player. I take my laptop and sometimes watch DVDs and play music that way but it's disconnected. I dig it. And yet, no matter how many times we've put the phone there on the 'do not call' list, I almost always hear from a telemarketer...
Even in the mountains? Argh. Those people are the bane of my existence. I know they're just doing their job, so I actually mean those companies they work for are the bane of my existence, but I've become downright rude to them. I wish I had a mountain getaway, telemarketers or not, though. Sounds like heaven.
We just let those characters talk their hearts out to the answering machine. Most of the time they don't even bother with that. We pick up the phone only after we hear the voice of someone we know. Family and friends are used it. Just to stay on topic, I don't let the phone interrupt my time with Sims .
Mountain cabin - no answering machine. Phone rarely rings - always a thrill. Maybe an emergency?! No, it's long-distance service upgrades. Don't care. Go away, nicely. Back to sitting by the woodstove. Watch the moths beat on the screen door. Listen to river roar by. Walk. Read. Nap. Try to cook on rustic kitchen equipment. Sleep without concern for time. Dream or nightmare, you decide.
Well, it's one of my dreams at this point in time. Any chance you rent this out? Will you deny all knowledge of my existence in spite of repeated phone calls from my kids who desperately need to know where they put something or where dinner is?
Those poor telemarketers. We don't get that breed here, if any had to phone me I would use two words when addressing them, and it wouldn't be "Dag Dag".
I live in a country which has a government owned telecommunications monopoly, thus making it too expensive for companies to spam people with unwanted telephone calls. They much prefer email and SMS spam.
