Sentences with phrase «calling at dinnertime»

I'd get a potential customer on the phone, deliver the pitch (in a tone strikingly similar to the door - to - door magazine salesman in «Office Space»), and at the first sign of hesitation on the customer's part, apologize for calling at dinnertime and hurriedly end the conversation.

Finally, two days before Loren was scheduled to deliver, the neurologist called at dinnertime.

Not exact matches

I've written about some of my experiences before — meeting a six - year - old forced to memorize and recite the Westminster Confession at dinnertime, nearly losing my faith over the notion that God created the majority of the human population for no other purpose but to suffer in hell for eternity, and encountering the famed «Jonathan Edwards is My Homeboy» T - shirt in the midst of the so - called «Calvinist resurgence.»

The Presbyterian minister «was standing, at the moment of the ruinous pang, on the first floor of the rectory, wondering if in view of the heat he might remove his black serge jacket, since no visitor was scheduled to call until after dinnertime, when the Church Building Requirements Committee would arrive to torment him with its ambitions.»