Phone Conversations Gone Bad

I just got off the phone with a potential. He sounded great on paper: a published writer, works for the government, a big reader.

Exclamation marks all around!

But on the phone he sounds like a bored announcer. Like a person who has written down the questions he wants to ask and gives his planning away in the intonation. Like a sleezy boss who's not really listening, just responding with canned answers. Like fucking Bill Lumbergh.

I hope he doesn't call again.