So I'm not joining the Army. I know this doesn't come as a surprise to most of you, but the Army hasn't quite figured it out yet.
The recruiters call me every couple of weeks. If I'm lucky, I'm not at home when that happens, but every now and then I have to talk to one. A couple of days ago, I took a call from a recruiter. As soon as they identify themselves, I always reply "I'm not interested, thank you," and hope that it'll end there. This guy kept persisting, so I repeated my line, and hung up the phone.
Thirty seconds later, the phone rings again. It's the guy calling back. "Don't answer that" I yell to my family, and forget that anything happened.
But today my mom called me into the living room because there was a message for me on the voicemail. It was the guy. "I don't appreciate being hung up on," he said. "And I'm required by Congress to... to get into contact with all the Seniors at your high school." He went on to explain that I needed to call him back immediately, and if I didn't, he would keep calling, would "show up on [my] doorstep, or hunt [me] down at school."
Now, I ask you, is that a littttttle bit creepy? He'll hunt me down at school? I feel kind of threatened by a man with a lot of artillery training telling me he's going to hunt me down.