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After saying for many years that I would be the last person on the planet to get a cell phone, I finally got one this weekend. Funny thing, I went around for a while saying the next person to cut my hair would probably be the undertaker, then I got it cut from below-waist to shoulder length ( Read more... )

I seldom write about the nice people I meet every day, partly because they're just not newsworthy. Nice, decent people call me about 25 times out of 30. The other 5 times, most of them are still decent people who are just very frustrated. Much though we try to downplay it, and much though we try not to let this happen, my cable company is a very ( Read more... )

For the past two weeks, one of the guys on our team has been running a sales incentive based on Monopoly. The idea is if you sell one each of x, y, and z you have gone once around the board ( Read more... )

I work for the cable company doing tech support for the internet. If you want cable internet service, you need a cable modem. You can buy your own at any one of eighty gazillion stores, or you can lease one from us for a modest monthly fee ( Read more... )

Favorite call this week: "Hello, my doorbell keeps ringing." Not our problem, sparky, call an electrician ( Read more... )

We recently got a new vacuum cleaner. The consort informed me tonight that he has named it "Sherman", because going backwards gives it a headache.

There are some things I don't understand. Things where I can clearly see that other people like them, and even get very excited over them, and I think they're completely useless. And I don't mean things where it is widely acknowledged that some people really like them and other don't, like romance novels or broccoli. I mean things that most people ( Read more... )

Now here's a wacky thing.

Man Accidentally Divorces Wife in SleepI found this first on Comcast.net, in their strange news section. (1) Allow me to summarize: a Muslim man living in India said the word "talaq" three times in his sleep one night. "Talaq" is the Urdu word for divorce, and under Islamic law, a man can divorce his wife by saying "I ( Read more... )

Two weeks ago I achieved the unthinkable in a call center job -- a schedule of 8:30-5 M-F. There have been people working here for years that don't have both days of the weekend free, let alone working day shift. I didn't even have to fight too hard for it. A slot opened up for this shift, I applied for it, and I got it. S after a year and a half ( Read more... )