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HELLO!?! No, Not Busy… Just Doing Squats Babe.

January 17th —Taking phone calls at the gym

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2 min readJan 17, 2022

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Welcome to the Penguin Micro-rants. I have committed to a rant a day for January. Why? Why not! Phone etiquette is turning out to be one of my bugbears. I have to say this really has become a voyage of self-discovery for me. A few weeks ago I went on a…

Argumentative Penguin

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