I'm Screening My Calls

Dear Caller:Please don't take it personally, but I am screening my calls. It's not that I don't like you. Well, there's a small chance that that is the case, but most likely I just need to know where your call fits on my priority list in that moment in time. 
If you're my Agent/Editor/Publisher, I promise I'll trample kittens and babies to get to the phone.
I'll drop an overflowing laundry basket in a second to take a call from an old friend. If I talked to you an hour ago, I may put the laundry f