You must choose.

I work (worked?) in sales...in an odd sort of sales way. Really more event planning, but my business card still reads Senior Sales Manager. Fortunately, I have mercifully avoided ever making cold calls. Good thing, because apparently people really hate the task.



I've never had a root canal, but I'm not entirely certain I agree with the survey's findings that a violent dental operation resulting in a spectacular eruption of pain is worse than cold calling. I did once have to make cold calls on behalf of a non-profit, begging shamelessly for donations.... Somehow I lived to tell the tale, but honestly I'd rather take a bullet. I'd also rather:

• Be tied down and forced to watch Waterworld for seven days straight


• Piss a golfball


• Have a dorsel fin growing out of my back


• Eat deviled eggs (vile things!)


• Be a sound engineer on a Paris Hilton album

Really, I can't blame anyone for choosing an uncomfortable one month dry spell over cold calling for one week. Just sayin'.