One friend posted in her live journal ( Read more... )

Got my first obscene call at work today. Classic format, nothing special or worth repeating. I'm just wondering what took so long. I've been at this company just about four years. The video reps get them regularly, although usually at night.

I got a call today from an elderly man who wanted to speak to someone about a technical matter. It seems he has this really old rotary phone, and apparently he's still paying rent on it ( Read more... )

I had someone call me a bitch today. I think this is the first time ever! Whee! A new milestone ( Read more... )

The Big Read thinks the average adult has only read six of the top 100 books they've printed below ( Read more... )

This entry in Customers Suck had this picture of an Irish Wolfhound linked to illustrate their point that these are great bug huge dogs that don't belong in a shop. Of course I'm reading back over a week, so there's no point in commenting in the entry itself, and it's an offtangent point anyway, but just seeing the photograph brings up my long term ( Read more... )

I saw an allergist today, and happily I do not have allergies. I am having a histamine reaction to some insult, which may be a one-time event or may be due to some underlying condition, and the way my body reacts to that is on the skin. For some reason, this is a lot more morally acceptable to me than being allergic to something. So now if I take ( Read more... )

For my 40th birthday, I got allergies. Unfortunately I didn't get a gift receipt with it, and haven't found any way of regifting it. The allergies perplex and annoy me as much by their existance as by their symptoms. I am the woman who isn't allergic to anything. I tramped through the same woods as my brother, and where he got horrible poison ivy I ( Read more... )

I had a call today in which the customer had gotten what they asked for, which is not what they wanted. So, as a public service to my friends, this is how to ask for certain shit ( Read more... )

When we first moved here and got a car, street parking was open to all. A few years ago, some kids knocked on my door circulating a petition to make the street permit parking only. I thought this was a dumb idea -- the only time I'd had problems finding a space was during a snow emergency, and why would I want to give the town more money? But ( Read more... )