September 23, 2004

I Knew I Should Have Worn A Hat

Maybe I'm too much of a realist, but I never thought it required major mental gymnastics to wrap one's mind around the idea that a GMC YukonXL likely won't fit into the curbside parking space that just barely accommodated a Mini. Maybe the driver is much more religious than I am, but I believe if I made a similar leap of Faith, I'd throw my back out in the process. It amused me in the way that a Mastiff/St. Bernard mix lusting after a teacup poodle amuses me. The idea is funny but the actual sight makes you cringe.

Is it me? Am I the only one who still marvels over the lack of basic phone etiquette nowadays? I had someone call and leave me a message regarding a possible job. It required 12 attempts on my part to maybe make out the name and FINALLY get the phone number. I thought his name was Mel Gibson...it was Montel Williams*. I've never had a message from anyone speaking so quickly or indistinctly before. And believe me, I've had some doozies.

PayPal is a nifty service. But, did it really need to take me a week to get them to allow me to accept credit card payments without my putting up a credit card of my own? According to all the FAQ's and the 17 people I spoke to on the phone, the upgrade on the account shouldn't have kept prompting me for one. It's now resolved, but it took a a full seven days for it to happen.

And, you can't possibly ask me to believe that each and every fluorescent lightbulb in my kitchen burning out at the same time isn't a part of some sinister plot.

I really should have remembered to don my tinfoil hat before I headed out this morning.

* Not that there's anything wrong with Montel, of course.

Posted by DaGoddess at September 23, 2004 09:23 AM
Comments

Ballast. Could be your ballast. The lights in the kitchen, I mean.

Posted by: David Kilpatrick at September 23, 2004 09:30 AM

Use Reynold's. It works better than generic aluminum-foil. Or so the voices tell me.

Posted by: Michael at September 23, 2004 09:31 AM

Silly me, using generic!

And ballast. That's the ticket

Posted by: Da Goddess at September 23, 2004 09:37 AM

Out? You go out?

Posted by: Misanthropyst at September 23, 2004 10:12 AM

Are these long tube type of fluorecents or compact fluorescents you screw into a regular socket?

Posted by: PCD at September 23, 2004 10:37 AM

How can you be so selfish, when the world is about to lose one of it's greatest blessings?

Oh the humanity!

Um, wait - what were we talking about? Oh yeah - I hate days like that! :-p

Posted by: IgwanaRob at September 23, 2004 11:04 AM

Tinfoil hat or not, I hope you remembered to change out of your jammies in order to maintain your secret identity....

Posted by: caltechgirl at September 23, 2004 12:41 PM

I get a lot of phone calls/messages at work either from 1) old people or 2) brokers/lawyers. The old people are fine - they repeat their names & numbers at least twice and sometimes spell their names. The brokers & lawyers leave their names & numbers so fast that I have to listen to their messages like 12 times to figure it out. And then I sometimes still have problems with it. At that point, I delete their message and blame it on our phone system when they complain I didn't call back!

Posted by: yayaempress at September 23, 2004 12:56 PM

When did you start channeling Andy Rooney?

Posted by: Brian B at September 23, 2004 01:36 PM

Hmm I got home last night to ONE working lightbulb in my place (naturally in the back) what fun getting up in the night for the bathroom with a broken toe :)

Posted by: LarryConley at September 23, 2004 02:54 PM

Joanie,

Sorry for an off-topic Link-whoring bleg, but I found this at Michelle Malkin's, and I think you'll approve:

You can now buy a soldier a beer over the internet!

Posted by: Brian B at September 23, 2004 05:24 PM

I'm happy to see that my evil plan of killing all the flourescent lights in your house worked.
BWA-HA-HA

Posted by: Dwayne "the canoe guy" at September 23, 2004 08:33 PM

Caltechgirl: Damn! Totally forgot.

Larry: Okay, here's the weird thing.....my left toe...the big one...has been hurting since Wednesday. And there is nothing visibly wrong. Is it possible that you're somehow the east coast male version of me - except with a job and stuff?

Dwayne: Get your ass over here and change these stinking things! You plotted it, now you fix it.

Brian: re Andy Rooney...about the time I pulled a foot and a half long hair out of my browline, thank you very much.

Posted by: Da Goddess at September 24, 2004 12:45 AM