Telephones are conspiring against me, I just know it.
Yesterday my cell phone started going haywire, flashing colors and freezing up. I take it in this morning (9am on my day off!) to get it looked at. They tell me it'll take 30 minutes for a system update that should probably fix it. I go to Barnes and Noble, spend 50 dollars on books (saving $6.39 with my membership card), go back to Verizon. System update didn't work, surprise surprise. They then tell me to go home, file an insurance claim on it, pay $50, they'll send me a new one. I go home, call the insurance people, they tell me they can't cover it. I go back to the store, talk to someone else this time, and it turns out the phone is still under warranty (The first guy told me it wasn't) and I still have to wait for them to send me a new phone but I don't have to pay $50. So by this point (11:30 or so) I wasn't too happy, so I just had to complain to the manager that the first guy lied about the warranty that I'm paying 10 bucks a month for and tried to get me to pay for something that could be fixed for free. So I'm phoneless for the next 2 days or so.
Also the house phone is on the fritz. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. It's an evil, demon possessed machine. And on today of all days! Nothing like a day when people are supposed to get in contact with me. Fan-freakin-tastic.
Also I'm having a clothing crisis.
It's all Verizon's fault. Luckily I have some jazz to calm me down.
I also have a friend who owes me a large sum of money asking me to do him favors. He wants me to take a day off work to go with him to Nashville to meet with his ex-wife and son. Why he wants me to come along I don't know, but he keeps pestering me. This is one of the many reasons why I try to hang out with my friends as little as possible.
Yesterday my cell phone started going haywire, flashing colors and freezing up. I take it in this morning (9am on my day off!) to get it looked at. They tell me it'll take 30 minutes for a system update that should probably fix it. I go to Barnes and Noble, spend 50 dollars on books (saving $6.39 with my membership card), go back to Verizon. System update didn't work, surprise surprise. They then tell me to go home, file an insurance claim on it, pay $50, they'll send me a new one. I go home, call the insurance people, they tell me they can't cover it. I go back to the store, talk to someone else this time, and it turns out the phone is still under warranty (The first guy told me it wasn't) and I still have to wait for them to send me a new phone but I don't have to pay $50. So by this point (11:30 or so) I wasn't too happy, so I just had to complain to the manager that the first guy lied about the warranty that I'm paying 10 bucks a month for and tried to get me to pay for something that could be fixed for free. So I'm phoneless for the next 2 days or so.
Also the house phone is on the fritz. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. It's an evil, demon possessed machine. And on today of all days! Nothing like a day when people are supposed to get in contact with me. Fan-freakin-tastic.
Also I'm having a clothing crisis.
It's all Verizon's fault. Luckily I have some jazz to calm me down.
I also have a friend who owes me a large sum of money asking me to do him favors. He wants me to take a day off work to go with him to Nashville to meet with his ex-wife and son. Why he wants me to come along I don't know, but he keeps pestering me. This is one of the many reasons why I try to hang out with my friends as little as possible.
This morning on the plane back here I read an article about this book, I think it's called The Keep by Jennifer Egan. Maybe you should check it out. I can't tell if it's a chick book or not (I read it in BUST- so it could go either way).