Holiday Wheelspinning
I’m sure the purpose of time off work is to bore you into wanting to go back.
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I can’t leave the house, potentially until 6pm, since I have to wait for a courier who is carrying tonight’s Kristen Hersh tickets. TicketMaster can just go to Hell. They didn’t even give an option of using Royal Mail or of just picking the tickets up at the venue. Instead they’re using some courier who requires a signature and ID to deliver something which would fit through any letterbox in the country. So it costs more and is the least reliable form of delivery. Way to go guys!
I’ve already had to have this delivery rescheduled. On Saturday their driver apparently decided he didn’t have time to wait for me to sign, so just threw one of those “While you were out…” cards through the letterbox, then legged it before I could get to him. He didn’t even put a reference number on the card, so it made calling their no-human-beings callcentre to arrange a redelivery something of an ordeal.
If you happen to see a Special Mail Services van parked on the street, feel free to piss in its petrol tank for me.
I’ve had 2 cold-call salespeople on the phone today. This “BT Telephone Preference Service”, it’s not working so well.SalesDrone: Hi there! I’m from *some company* how are you doing today?
Me: I’m hugely busy.
SD: Hey, that’s great. Now, I might have a piece of good news for you, I…
Me: I don’t care about whatever you’re selling.
SD: Well, how do you know that? You don’t even know the details of our offer.
Me: If you were selling anything useful, I’d have heard about you through other means.
SD: So, do you get a lot of these calls?
Me: More than would be ideal.
SD: Well, sir, the reason we cold-call people is that it’s proven to be the very best way to market products to discerning customers, in fact…
Me: *click*
And yet, if I were to kill them, I’d be the one who went to jail!
Daytime TV is NOT an option to pass the time. Neither is World of Warcraft, since the only people on at this time of day are hungover students.I’m going stir crazy! Entertain me!