The maid's prank call

So my maid yelled into her phone the other day (she is on her mobile talking to someone or another 50% of her work hours). I asked her what was up and if it was a prank call. She said, yeah, and the person would change the language in which he was conversing to throw her off the scent and make her think it was different people. But she said she knew because of the caller ID. I mean what kind of an idiot would think that a person owning a mobile phone wouldn't make out the caller ID?!

So, she was furious. And she asked me to help her call back the same number. And I did. It was apparently a Bangalore number (she cleverly made out since it didn't require a 0 in Bangalore, where if she was calling from her home town, she had to add one). And she yelled at the person saying, "if you call me another time, you see what I will do. You think you can fool me by changing voices/languages and you think I wouldn't know how to call you back. if you call me again, I will give your number into the police and then think what would happen to you." And so on and so forth, you get the drift..

I wonder so many times, I wouldn't think of the Police when trying to teach someone a lesson. Probably because I know how it works so well, that I've given up hope. But apparently the police threat still works in some circles!

The mute button!

My life as it has been running for the past few months would have been impossible but for one simple button. The MUTE one. It lets me breathe while the son is playing/shrieking without losing all my nerves with the worry that all the folks on the (conference) bridge would hear it. Such a simple device, yet such a profound service it does me. It is quite remarkable! :)

LinkedIn

I got an email invitation from some unknown person and by an accident, I clicked on Accept instead of clicking on "View the invitation". And now I just cannot find a way to remove this person from my connections. I detest adding unknown people to my accounts on social networking sites (professional or otherwise) and this has been majorly paining me for the past five minutes.

Anyone knows how to delete connections in LinkedIn??

ONE MINUTE LATER: I found an obscure link at the top middle area of the page which says Remove connections and it has made me a happier person :D