Robocall Victim Takes Robo-Revenge

Aaron Titus, a father of five in suburban Maryland, is the newest folk hero for our modern age of mild technological annoyances! Earlier this week, the school district awoke him with a 4:30 a.m. robocall. Two can play that game.

The Washington Post takes us inside Aaron Titus' moment of angst: the robocall was simply to inform him that due to snow, school would be opening two hours late. What a rip, right? So Aaron Titus went out, found himself a robocall company, and recorded the following call, which he sent out to members of the local school board the following morning, at 4:30 a.m.:



This is as close to Falling Down as most suburban family men are likely to get. We salute you, Aaron Titus: your benign tit-for-tattery is an appropriate balm for the chronic fits of gentle pique which accompany the harried but generally comfortable life of today's upper middle class Americans. [Washington Post]


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