days_unfolding

Sorry Carol--I've been scrambling to prepare for the condo reconstruction contractor tomorrow A.M. I need to make this brief.

Anyway, the person on the phone is certainly stalking me (or making "nuisance calls" in the language of the phone company). The calls consist of silence until the person hangs up (or I do) or hanging up when I get on the line. These calls have persisted for a year-and-a-half. The longest period of time that they stopped was right after I left the company at which I now work. They started up again in April (?) of last year.

I opened a police report that I believe has now expired. The phone company talked me into blocking calls rather than tracing them. I'm putting that decision in the top 100 list of mistakes that I've made in my life, if not higher.

Does the caller have a role in the rest of my life? Well, that's the million-dollar question. I would be much happier if I had an answer. I've assumed that the caller is someone that I know IRL because I would think that a stranger would get bored after the first few times. I really don't think that a stranger would keep it up for a year-and-a-half. Also, I have gotten a phone call every single time that I made reference to the lab at which I worked and now work again, no matter how oblique. I wrote one reference to remodeling of the lobby when I went for an interview last year--and no one outside of the lab would know about that--and sure enough, I got a call. I've also sorted people along those lines, which I probably shouldn't do, but it's hard not to.

The incident that upset me wasn't a stalking incident. The mutual distrust at the lab has gotten bad enough that we're playing a fun game of "who gets to watch whom leave". A couple of people trailed me out to the parking lot, and it gave me the creeps. (This has happened more than once; it wasn't just a coincidence.) I parked my car elsewhere in the hopes of keeping the twain from meeting, but I can't always do that. I'd be willing to agree to leave or not leave at certain times, but that agreement presumes that the other person would believe that I'd stick to it.

"I need to make this brief." Heh.

Did you ever find out how the caller got your phone number? Scary.