Phone call Panic

I don't like talking on the phone and I stress about having to answer or make phone calls. I am a grown  up, I know and this fear is stupid but it is what it is.

There is one particular phone call I really don't want to make.

I have been putting it off for some months now.

I need to do it sooner or later though, The sooner the better.

The phone call will make me look like this:

Again...

Argh.

Bleh.

Vom.

I already cop it from all fields for being "young". These are not going to make anything better. Perhaps I should become a mute. Then I would not have to talk on the phone.

I know I am a vain bitch and there are worse things in the world apart from getting braces. But I have had them before. I have done my innings. Then after these come the fourteen (or more) crowns. And the $20,000 debt, to add to my other debts. And I don't even have a house, or a purpose in life. Woohoo me.

"Call Ortho" has just been entered into my diary for 10am tomorrow. I wonder if the call will get made.

- Holla atcha

"the letter F"

PS. Message from Mother re: braces. 

"I was talking to such and such and apparently it is hard to eat for the first few days after getting braces".

Thanks mum, do your remember that I have had them before? Or that I had to put up with years of you and Dad complaining about the cost of them.  My parents liked to do this - I will never live down the fact I went to private school, despite it being my parents choice all along .

Me - I hate school
Parents - You better like it! do you know how much we pay for your education!!


Me - Can I have some money to buy X"
My parents - No, isn't it enough we pay for you to go to a good school
Me - You chose to send me to this school
Parent - Well, do you want to go to Shitty Beach (local public high school)
Me - No.
Parents - Fine then. 
Me - [pout and sulk off into my room]

In Year 8, I had a discussion with the principal of my school (who was drunk at the time, after the school fete) who told me that our school fees were more than a third cheaper than other schools in the State because it was heavily funded my the Catholic Education Department. So for the next five years, I humoured my parents that they were making some HUGE sacrifice for my education. Ok that sounds snooty. They were making a sacrifice but not as big a one as they were making out.

... Anyway back on track, I will be sure to remember this sound advice from my mother when I get foreign metal objects glued to my teeth and then attached by wire that is tightened with pliers!! I didn't think it was going to hurt at all!!

PS. I made the call today. Braces will be applied at 9.30am on 11 November 2010. Then don't expect to see my half head smile until at least a year from then.