I just had a creditor call regarding my unpaid medical bills,

and as usual,

I pretended not to be me.

This woman on the phone, rude and condensing as patients are often treated here in the U.S.,

made further snarky comments about getting a ‘message to Tara’.

By this point,

both her and I know that I’m Tara. But I’m not budging, and there is nothing she can do about it.

After giving her moment to stumble through this ‘message to Tara’,

I interrupted her,

with a voice of steel,

“You do realize that Tara suffers from a number of life threatening medical conditions.”

Caught off guard, she stuttered a little–

“Um, I didn’t know that. I’m just calling regarding what I see here.”

“What you do, for a living, is call and harass people with life threatening medical conditions.”

“Well, um, uh,”

“Goodbye.” Click.

That’s the United States of America for you.