Ugh. When I bought my condo, all the bathrooms were carpeted, apparently by the nice old lady who didn’t like cold feet in the morning who had the place built. It was gross, but I’m lazy, so I put up with it for a few years.
Then… my brother had a son, then another son, and I realized that nephews would be visiting. The idea of them hosing down carpeted bathroom floors finally got me to remodel the bathrooms. Where someone pointed out to me that the nice old lady could have put in heated floors for minimal electricity $ and no grossness without suffering cold feet.
What usually happens is that a lot of people wait for a few minutes and then hang up, so that the queue suddenly gets a lot shorter. I’ve also seen (from being on the call center side) that it will drop suddenly as a new shift comes on the phones. Or the lines, which were down at one site due to whatever, suddenly are available again and 150 people are able to take calls.
Rant…The weather is gonna be snowy here in the great outback of So. Arkansas. There is not a loaf of bread for a 100 miles. These people act like they will be snowed in for weeks. You are not gonna die if you don’t have bread for 1.5 days. I promise. You are already overweight, it will be several weeks before you start losing a mass ammount of weight. Go home and eat all those snacks in your cart, you won’t even miss the bread. AND…why did I come to the grocery store at all? Oh yea, chocolate, I may be snowed in awhile.
These peeps are nuts down here. I live in the boonies, I may not leave this place up to several days in a row, in a normal week. I could live for months on crap I have in my pantry and freezers. Maybe I don’t want to eat sauerkraut and lima beans, but I could. And I am pretty sure most folks are similar. You would think folks are expecting Armageddon or something.
They’ve already sprayed brine here, which results in an interesting phenomenon: certain drivers apparently assume that the white stuff on the road is ice, so they drop their speed by ~20 mph. >.<
I realize it is annoying to follow someone going ridiculously slow, but probably a better choice by them then assuming a coating of ice or snow is brine residue.
Nah. Hold my beer and watch this. You need to floor it and pass those losers, preferably at 70-80 MPH. If you can pass them on the right shoulder, so much the better! Caution is for wimps. No guts, no glory.
Ordered some stuff over internet, from a company which appears to be US-based (I have a strong suspicion there is some Chinese involved; the corporate parts of the page have grammar with the kind of mistakes I’m used to seeing from Chinese).
Since it was US-based and previous experience tells me those companies tend to check location vs. CC billing address, I checked if that would be a problem. No, I was told. OK, so I ordered.
It’s a good thing I don’t really need the address’ “line 2”. I used it to write my cellphone number, hopefully the people from the Post will understand that’s what it is (I wrote GSM and the number, GSM being what cellphones are called here). You see, I’m in Belgium, my CC is Spanish and my phone is also Spanish. And the form doesn’t let me change the cellphone’s prefix :smack: so I gave the cellphone as "+32"“123456789” (field is required). Several of my coworkers who actually reside in Belgium have cellphones from other locations (Nederlands, France, Germany, Colombia) for different reasons. Ghaaaah!
Please let the sizes be correct please let the sizes be correct please let the sizes be correct…
