I’m trying to discipline myself to write every single day and that is one of the reasons I started this blog. I hope it’s not annoying you because it doesn’t annoy me. That’s not saying much because it’s pretty hard to annoy me. Most things really don’t bother me except for the fact that I’m fat and I wish I weren’t and my son’s wedding is coming up and I really don’t want to be fat for that. But I’m not doing anything about it after, around noon. (Before noon and sometimes up to around 8 o’clock I’m doing something about that and then I’m not).
That’s partly why this fire thing is so annoying. It would seem you have to be disciplined about it and you have to be disciplined in a very annoying way because you have to do everything 5 times. Annoying seems a funny way to describe a fire but it’s more annoying than most things you could imagine.
There are things that are sad, there are things that are debilitating, there’s loss, sorrow, lots of things. Most things that are annoying are short-lived. A fire and its aftermath go on, and on and on. Every single day there’s some new thing, or the thing that was annoying yesterday that will undoubtedly consume time today.
It's not like some thing you did to yourself. You know, the kinds of thing you notice over and over again. And, I’m the one here that does things over and over again. ( That is why, for example, I try to buy toothpaste with the little hinged top although sometimes I forget that it is 100% sure that if the toothpaste tube’s top isn’t hinged, the cap will be gone before the bottom’s rolled up and also I will squeeze it in the middle.)
A fire annoys in a different all-consuming way. There are all kinds of things you’re going to have to do that involve pushing buttons on the phone and holding on. I once had so much time holding on the phone that I googled: "customer service bypass buttons" or some term like that. There are all these free and pay for secret customer service phone codes available for virtually every company. The ads say that you can have three secret codes for free and for only $4.99, plus shipping and handling, they'll sell you a book with everybody's secret codes and you will never ever have to hold on any phone anywhere ever again and you will always get through to a through to a human being. For an extra $19.95 you can buy the bypass codes for all radio call in shows and they will upgrade your subscription free, for one full year, when the codes are changed. Three things about this: (a) the free codes don't work, (b)human beings aren’t actually any more helpful than machines and also they’ll disconnect you if they feel like it and (c) I think it explains why I once heard my mother on the Lynn Samuels show and also the radio call in demographic.
Everybody’s been through phone holding on, but usually only once a month or so. With a fire it’s an all-day/every day and I keep taking breaks and going for walks. This would be a good thing to do if I could actually motivate myself to stay on task, at least in our time zone, when I'm finished walking. I know that it's no use doing anything before 9 or after 5:30. Those places that say they’ve 24 hour customer service…that’s an absolute lie. They only service if you’ve memorized every single digit in an account you may or may not use. Also, the account’s password -protected and it’s some goofy password that’s really long that they gave you, and it’s your own damn fault that you didn’t change it when they said you could. Also, your answer to the secret question that you answered in case you needed it (presumably for something like a fire) doesn’t match and then, well, you know; see (b) paragraph above.
Anyway, today I was going to write about the burn unit, but then I decided that I would post the you tube video and also some pictures. But, I couldn’t do that. I can’t figure it out. I keep being told to “refresh” which sounds like some feminine hygiene commerciaL and is vaguely insulting. Not as omnious though as the little box that pops up and tells me I’m infected or the other little box that tells me that I committed a fatal error.
And I say, “ha”…I survived a fire. I’m going to write about you in a blog and tomorrow, first thing, after I begin my daily diet, I’m getting on the phone with customer service and I'm telling on you, and I’ll annoy them, at least until they hang up on me.
No comments:
Post a Comment