Caller: Hello is this...Claire?

Me: Yes, who is this? [I'm always rude when I know it's a telemarker.]

Caller: Yes we're calling about your 2014 Jetta sedan that you currently own.

Me: Yeah, the hybrid?

Caller: Yes. Do you own that car or is it leased?

Me: It's leased.

Caller: OK. It looks like you do not qualify for our offer, then.

Me: OK. Bye.

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Unrelated, I have published a bunch of things this week. Here is a piece I wrote for Fast Company about how you can't organize or find an app to get your way out of all the lousy housework you have to do. Here is a University of Chicago Magazine profile I wrote about Waverly Deutsch, a very personable and smart entrepreneurship professor at the University of Chicago's Booth business school. And finally, I did a thing for Mom.me about how parenting-wise, I frequently feel like I wear the black hat whereas my husband wears the white.