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I keep hearing things that I think are worth more than just setting aside and forgetting about, although that's always what I do. If I record them, maybe they'll linger.
- A man in a wheelchair lives in Chicago, with an upstairs neighbor so disruptive that he has to sleep in his car, where he keeps getting tickets from cops. The landlord does nothing. The housing authority tells him to move, then does nothing. When confronted, the neighbor keys his car. The attorney hasn't called him back since November last year, but he doesn't know what else to do. January?/15
- A woman calls to set up a trust for herself and her husband. "He's very sick, and going in for chemo, and I'm not feeling well either." Calls to make when you see the end. 4/6/15
- She had already set up a trust, and her husband recently died. "I am becoming very aware that when you become 87 years old, sometimes you die." 4/8/15
- She hit someone on the side of the road and didn't stop. She doesn't know what she should do. 4/15/15
- The manager is forcing him to buy things for him to keep his job, he's gone into debt. He's trying to support his family, in Africa. This job is very important to him, but every day he goes in and feels like it will be his last day. 4/28/15
- A woman was laughing as I answered, and I fell in love. What a gorgeous laugh! She had a very nice voice, too. Miss Mayes! 4/29/15
- A woman's daughter is mentally unwell and self harming, she just wants to have her committed. She cried, and thanked me for caring. 5/16/15
- Betty has my grandma's name AND my birthday! We bonded. She used to be a cop, and can guess people's ages by their voice (put me at 20 or 25, she's 67). She hasn't been able to sleep for the last 4 nights without her medication. 12/3/15
- Someone else who works with phones all day hung up on VM, called back, got me again, and asked if I was a machine; confessed she hadn't been able to tell. We had a great laugh over how tricky that can be. 2/25/16
- She's from India and has no family here; her ex-husband knows that and is bullying and harassing her. She works three jobs to support her two kids, and just wants these divorce issues to be done. I hope I was able to help. 4/28/16
- She was enlisted in '75; at the VA office they asked if she had ever been sexually assaulted. She said no, and he didn't believe her. He said that her eyes narrowed and she looked away and to the left, and got defensive. I thought it was odd how specifically she remembered all the reasons he told her she was lying. I also thought they were very convincing. She went through the same conversation with a worker who asked if she had thought about suicide, and asked her how she would do it. When she said a gun or a knife is too messy and she would probably use pills, the woman accused her of having thought about it. I trusted her more here, that she had not really thought about it. Partway into the talk she started telling me that sexual assault is just something you put up with, it's not like you can do anything about it, you just wait for it to be over and then forget about it with alcohol, and she's 60 now and it was so long ago, she never even thinks about it. She told me that as a black woman enlisted she was the bottom of the chain, she was a nobody. I could almost see her in uniform from her words. I don't think it was long enough ago. 10/14/16
- She was only able to come up with $200 of her son's bail, not the $678 that was needed. It was all she had, she said she tried everything to get more. She tearfully told me she was going to go down to the jail and pay that today, if it would help. 1/10/17
- Aaron has got his shit together. He owes a massive amount of back payments on child support for a child he has full custody of; he's a single dad making it work, but just barely. He wants a bankruptcy attorney to get him back to 0, and he can handle it from there. He just got a promotion at work. You've got this, Aaron. 4/18/17
- A man in a wheelchair lives in Chicago, with an upstairs neighbor so disruptive that he has to sleep in his car, where he keeps getting tickets from cops. The landlord does nothing. The housing authority tells him to move, then does nothing. When confronted, the neighbor keys his car. The attorney hasn't called him back since November last year, but he doesn't know what else to do. January?/15
- A woman calls to set up a trust for herself and her husband. "He's very sick, and going in for chemo, and I'm not feeling well either." Calls to make when you see the end. 4/6/15
- She had already set up a trust, and her husband recently died. "I am becoming very aware that when you become 87 years old, sometimes you die." 4/8/15
- She hit someone on the side of the road and didn't stop. She doesn't know what she should do. 4/15/15
- The manager is forcing him to buy things for him to keep his job, he's gone into debt. He's trying to support his family, in Africa. This job is very important to him, but every day he goes in and feels like it will be his last day. 4/28/15
- A woman was laughing as I answered, and I fell in love. What a gorgeous laugh! She had a very nice voice, too. Miss Mayes! 4/29/15
- A woman's daughter is mentally unwell and self harming, she just wants to have her committed. She cried, and thanked me for caring. 5/16/15
- Betty has my grandma's name AND my birthday! We bonded. She used to be a cop, and can guess people's ages by their voice (put me at 20 or 25, she's 67). She hasn't been able to sleep for the last 4 nights without her medication. 12/3/15
- Someone else who works with phones all day hung up on VM, called back, got me again, and asked if I was a machine; confessed she hadn't been able to tell. We had a great laugh over how tricky that can be. 2/25/16
- She's from India and has no family here; her ex-husband knows that and is bullying and harassing her. She works three jobs to support her two kids, and just wants these divorce issues to be done. I hope I was able to help. 4/28/16
- She was enlisted in '75; at the VA office they asked if she had ever been sexually assaulted. She said no, and he didn't believe her. He said that her eyes narrowed and she looked away and to the left, and got defensive. I thought it was odd how specifically she remembered all the reasons he told her she was lying. I also thought they were very convincing. She went through the same conversation with a worker who asked if she had thought about suicide, and asked her how she would do it. When she said a gun or a knife is too messy and she would probably use pills, the woman accused her of having thought about it. I trusted her more here, that she had not really thought about it. Partway into the talk she started telling me that sexual assault is just something you put up with, it's not like you can do anything about it, you just wait for it to be over and then forget about it with alcohol, and she's 60 now and it was so long ago, she never even thinks about it. She told me that as a black woman enlisted she was the bottom of the chain, she was a nobody. I could almost see her in uniform from her words. I don't think it was long enough ago. 10/14/16
- She was only able to come up with $200 of her son's bail, not the $678 that was needed. It was all she had, she said she tried everything to get more. She tearfully told me she was going to go down to the jail and pay that today, if it would help. 1/10/17
- Aaron has got his shit together. He owes a massive amount of back payments on child support for a child he has full custody of; he's a single dad making it work, but just barely. He wants a bankruptcy attorney to get him back to 0, and he can handle it from there. He just got a promotion at work. You've got this, Aaron. 4/18/17
