my dad just left on his long day’s drive back to charlotte. i’m sad to see him go. now i am all alone in my big apartment for the first time, and that’s a little bit of a spooky thought. tonight will be my first night alone in my new place! both exciting and scary.
(2:16 p.m.)
oh yeah. i posted a lot of pictures, from mexico and from dad’s and my stop at jake’s on our way down to houston on monday.
i’m sitting here pretending to unpack, but actually i’m being a bum and vegging in front of the tv. i watched the second half of one of the tom clancy movies, one of the ones with harrison ford as jack ryan. i dunno which one it was, but it had to do with drug lords and lots of government deception. anyway. i’d never seen it before. it was ok.
i really should unpack some more.
(4:56 p.m.)
ok, what is it with southwestern bell? when i called a month ago to set up my phone service, i was put through to what i thought was the most talkative salesman ever. he just would not stop talking to me and trying to sell me different services. i couldn’t hang up until he finished setting up my service, so i was literally on the phone with him for 45 minutes until i finally got the stupid phone and dsl set up.
fast forward to today. i have now come to the conclusion that every southwestern bell billing person is just extraordinarily and annoying long-winded. today i call because i noticed that my first bill had my street address right, but was missing the apartment number. so i called to add the number. first of all, the guy asks me random questions about how much long distance i use, if it’s just me that uses the phone, etc. he finally gets around to asking me what i want changed on the address, and then puts me on hold for 5 minutes while all he does is change one little number.
he finally comes back and says he’s changed it, but wants to let me know about some call waiting extra feature for only $1 a month more. i politely decline. he says “ok, i understand completely, but i wanted to let you know that…” and proceeds to tell me how nice this call waiting extra stuff is, like it can automatically forward to your voice mail and crap. again, i politely decline. he says “ok, i understand completely, but i wanted to let you know that…” and starts talking again about the call waiting thingy. i say “no, i really don’t need it, all i need is my address changed.” he says “ok, i understand completely, but i wanted to let you know that…” and then he starts talking about some fancy phone they’re having a sale on.
at this point, i’m starting to get fed up, so i interrupt him and say “i don’t need anything but my address changed, that’s all, and if that’s been done then i’m gonna go now. has my address been changed?” and he says “yes, i’ll put that in the computer, but i wanted to let you know that…” and starts to say something else. at this point, i say “ok, thank you, goodbye” and hang up. he was still talking.
now, i don’t like having to hang up on people. i feel sorry for people who have to spend their days telemarketing or answering customer phone calls because i figure it must be a really sucky job, so i try to be pleasant. but good lord, this man could not take the obvious hint that i didn’t want anything else. ugh.
i bet he didn’t even change the address.
