What is with people today?? I cannot tell you how many times today I wanted to throw my phone out the window. If you ever get offered a job where you are the main telephone operator, I don’t care what amount of money they offer you, TURN IT DOWN! Just say no, folks, and your sanity you may keep.

I had one girl call several times to speak to a customer service representative. I duly transferred her over to the queue of calls waiting to speak to a representative. On the fourth call she calls me back and gives me attitude as if I wasn’t transferring her properly. When I told her that she would have to wait for the next representative, she said that she already had for 20 minutes. (Which, by the way, was impossible, her first call to me came in only 10 min ago.) I said that I would put her through again and she mutters under her breath, “well it’s about time you did.” Well. Of course I couldn’t transfer her with that comment hanging out there. I did the only thing that I could possibly do. I said,

“Ma’am, I am doing everything that I am able to do. I am the receptionist. I cannot look into your account. I will have to transfer you to customer service where they will be able to look up your account. Unfortunately, they are busy. You will have to wait a few minutes. You do not need to take it out on me.”

As you can see, I do not have the best temperament to deal with a thousand calls a day like this one. I end up just not being able to handle it. Of course, before all this began, I got hung up on, yelled at, cursed at, and dealt with all other kinds of subtle rudeness before I reached my threshold. Luckily for me and the world, this job is almost over with.

Another crazy thing today, we had a bomb threat up the street, a lady got hit by a car crossing the side street by my building, and a girl was rear-ended in the left turn lane on a busy street in Atlanta. After she got rear-ended, she decided that it wasn’t a good idea to move her car off the side of the road so that she didn’t hold up traffic. Instead she got out of her car, (did I mention that it was a VERY busy street?) and stood in front of it as if she was guarding it. Which I was thought was kind of pointless, I mean the car had already been attacked. What was she guarding it for? Was she going to throw herself in front of it to protect it from further damage? Like a shield? Anyway, there she stood for a good 45 min to an hour, just standing there and bearing all the evil looks people driving by must have been giving her (I know I would have given one) and all the horns honking at her, until Mr.. Policeman came to get her on the side of the road. Mind you, all this was in rush hour traffic.

and thus it was said:

God must love crazy people; He makes so many of them
Anonymous

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Today I Googled “professional knife sharpeners” and looked on Yellow Pages, and apparently having a knife sharpening business is old news. This is very frustrating to me, because, while I do want to get a steel rod to sharpen my knives at home, I still wanted to do the ‘Big Sharpen’ once a year. My little chef’s knife just isn’t mincing those onions like it used to.

The Food Network (which is THE food resource if you ask me) told me that I needed to swipe that bad boy along the steel rod before each use. Then once every 6 months (or every year) get the Pros in to do the job. What the Food Network says is gospel truth, and I have to do it…because they said so… They also said that a dull knife is more dangerous than a sharp knife…something about using more pressure to get the job done.

But there are no more knife sharpeners in Georgia!

I could send my knife off to get sharpened through an online store, but the cost is astronomical for just one little itty bitty chef’s knife! So, I thought, well, I can get everyone I know to go in it with me to counteract the shipping charges and we’ll all get our knives sharpened in one go. But, of course, as you all are thinking, what will we do in the meantime about knives? How will we cook? Seriously, the cost of all of this makes me wonder if I should just go buy a new knife! Ha! I guess that if I had 10 really expensive knives, then all this aggravation would be worth it, but now? Not so much.

Sigh.

I guess I will content myself with getting a steel rod and swiping that sucker up and down until it feels like it could split a hair in two. All this for chopped onions. Go figure.

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Despite the rocky start, I hope you all will forgive the ineptitude of the editor…(small cough)…Joanna…of this blog for her crazy emails going out to everyone informing them of the new blog. There were rumors that the link didn’t work, which was entirely possible and probable, a promise to be able to subscribe to the blog which never manifested itself, and of course, the curious fact that the site you are now looking at is, in fact, a different site altogether from the one previously offered. Well. Let me just say, that I’m new to this people! I should have scouted out all the blog sites out there to find what I wanted in a site first before emailing all of you. I apologize, but I know you all will have figured it all out by now…else you wouldn’t be reading this post.

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Thank you for checking this out. I promise the remainder of our relationship here will be hassle free and smooth as glass…famous last words.

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Hey everyone…I started this blog so that all my friends and family could see what is going on in our lives. This way, everyone can keep up with news and, of course, funny anecdotes which I think infiltrate my life and those around me on a fairly frequent basis. You all out there can add comments and keep in touch with me, as well. As you know, I am not the best with keeping up with everyone through email and phone.

Of course, the phone is not entirely my fault, as I have the WORST cell phone service known to man.

Hopefully, this will be so successful, that everyone out there in friends and family land will feel close and in contact with my little family. After all, what’s the use of having all this great technology without keeping in better contact with those that I love? I remember when we used to get excited about great long distance plans (like 10-10-220) and now when have we thought about that since almost everyone has cell phones? Do they still even have plans that don’t offer nationwide long distance??

Anyway, this post is just an FYI, so make sure you all sign up to receive updates whenever I post one so that you can click the link and feel like you are having a conversation with me in cyber-space.

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