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Work Days…..

10 Aug

 

Well. Yesterday was an interesting day. It was kind of a surreal day. “There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man it is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity it is the middle ground between light and shadow between science and superstition and it lies between the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge….. it is an area which we call- the Twilight Zone.”
Let me ‘splain….

In the morning, I usually fix coffee and we catch up on stuff, and see what we each have going on customer wise. Try to lay out a little plan for the day, which doesn’t always work out because we never know what is gonna walk in our door, but we will still make the effort. Yesterday around 10:30 or so several police cars zoom past our office. Now this in itself is not that unusual, we regularly have police and emergency vehicles go past headed to the latest accident or occasional robbery. What was unusual was the speed they were traveling. We knew something was up when the police cars went by our office so fast we couldn’t see them, we only heard them. As it turned out, there was a drive by shooting a couple of blocks from where I work. A drive by. Shooting. Wow. Later that evening the local news did a story and pretty much laid it out there that there is gang related violence in the neighborhood that I work in. I’ve worked in this area 3 years. We have never seen this before. I go to the gas station right below where this happened to get gas sometimes. The gentleman that was shot is recovering and doing fine, but no other details have been given. I am still having a hard time wrapping my mind around this. Really.

Then, in the afternoon we hear more sirens. Lots of different looking vehicles go by our office in the other direction, sirens blaring. As it turned out, there was a bridge that was shut down for a while about a mile from where I work because there was a suspicious package hanging on a road sign. Hmmmmm….. Totally unrelated to the morning incident. My daughters both work about 2 blocks from where this was going on. After about an hour the news reported that the bomb squad had detonated the suspicious device. Detonated. Suspicious. Device. Now, they are trying to cover the incident up and say there was never any real threat, it was just an empty backpack. Again, hmmmmmm….. I personally have problems with understanding how an empty backpack could be detonated. But then, that could just be me. Usually my empty backpacks don’t detonate, but maybe they have come up with some new material that detonates on contact with the bomb squad. I dunno. My daughters are fine. They were calling me as I was calling them, all of us just trying to be sure the others were ok. :) I love my girls……

So, an interesting day. Not at all what we are use to happening in our neck of the woods either. Hopefully we won’t be revisiting any of these issues later. I really don’t won’t to be a new episode of the Twilight Zone, maybe a new episode of Star Trek! Yeah! That would work! Either way, I’m glad Friday is only a couple of days away. Hope you are having a much quieter week then we’ve had. Talk to you soon! Angela

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I’m Not a Bartender….

02 Feb

007

I am an insurance agent. Yes, an insurance agent. Not a really cool bond type agent, you know, like: “Bond, James Bond…” No, I’m just a plain jane good ole insurance agent. As said agent I get to work with the public on a daily basis. They call in, they need a quote for a car. Would you believe we get calls for quotes for insurance for my blue car. Blue. Car. No make, model or year. Just blue. Really, I have had that call. I don’t insure the paint per-say, so no, I can’t tell you how much it would cost to insure the blue on your car. :)

Yesterday was a particularly weird and strange day. We have those on occasion. Everyone that came in had to talk to us, me and the nice lady I work with. Now, we are both agents, so that means either one of us can help you with whatever you got going on insurance wise. So, I work in an insurance office, and I’m an agent. Still following me right? Ok, I’m. An. Agent. So tell me. Why did everyone, and I mean e-v-e-r-y-o-n-e … come in yesterday and immediately start telling us, both of us, their deepest, darkest problems and secrets? Not only did the ones coming in do this, even the ones calling in did this. We know all about their wife’s bladder problems, their dad’s flatulence issues. One has had a hip replacement, another replaced a knee. Two have congestive heart failure and don’t know what they are going to do about it. One has had several deaths in the family, one may have lupus, another even started talking to me about something so serious it scared me: she was molested as a child and is going through counseling for it.  Ok…… At no time did I or the other agent ask them any kind of question related to any of these things. They just start talking like we’ve had a conversation going on about all this stuff. In. One. Day!  OMG!!!!!!!!!

Vino

Seriously, this all happened yesterday….. Again, I will state: I am an insurance agent. Period. I am not a counselor, nor am I your neighborhood bartender. I’m very sorry you have problems, however I do not want to hear about them. I cannot help you with them. I have my own problems to deal with, and usually family and friends in crisis. So, really? You have to walk in and just start word vomiting all over me? Bleeeccchhhhh……

I do feel bad for people, but come on. And why did everyone come in or call in on one day acting like this? I don’t know which star is misaligned with which planet, but LAWD! I will be glad when it fixes itself….and for my sanity it better be soon!

So, here’s to hoping the rest of this week goes better, much better, than yesterday. Man….I need some wine. Wanna join me? Later! Angela

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Cruisin’ The Drive Thru

07 Aug

I am so excited! It’s our vacation and I am psyched up and ready to go! I wanted to drive but Boyfriend wouldn’t let me. :( I like to drive faster than him. So I am navigating. We’ll see how long that lasts! ;) I wanna go!

Anyway, we decide to go to a drive thru for breakfast, drive in, order, pay and get food – fast, right? Weeellllll….not exactly boys and girls. Let me share our story…..

We pull in and wait for the second car in front of us to order, which takes a little longer than you would think, but not too bad. Then the car in front of us places its order, pretty quickly. Our turn! We want 2 biscuits, a coffee, an OJ and a cup of ice. How complicated is that, right? We see small water, hold the water, on the order screen for the cup of ice. No kidding here. Small water, hold the water? Real simple huh? Translation = small cup of ice. They read the rest of the order back to us and ask if it is correct. We move to the pay window.

When I was a teenager, I was a cashier at a local grocery store. Being able to make change was part of the job requirements. I had to be able to do a little math in my head. It took a few weeks but I caught on, and soon could have change figured out before my OLD register could. This was not a computerized model, uh-uh. It was the ancient hand crank kind. Really. No, thank you, I’m NOT that old, but the store I worked in was. :)

So, why do I digress down memory lane? We pull up to the pay window and Boyfriend doesn’t have exact change, so he gives the girl a twenty and change so she owes him a $13 and a nickel. She couldn’t do it. The nickle blew her mind. I don’t think you have to understand math concepts anymore to run a register. She had to go get more change (?) for him, and comes back shortly with the few dollars and a nickle. I think someone helped her figure it out.

So we finally got the change, and she apologizes for the delay, and I try to make a joke about the fact that the line hasn’t moved at all because of the second car in front of us. They still hadn’t got whatever they ordered, what was it? The whole frickin’ restaurant? I dunno. Boyfriend got my joke but she didn’t. Must have been a bad joke. We sit for another 10 minutes or so. Fast food huh?

Finally – really long time here – the second car has their order and we are 1 step closer to our food. I notice as they hand the bag of food to the car ahead of us that they also ordered OJ. Nothing unusual here as OJ is a breakfast standard, just normal stuff. Next I see that something must be wrong with their order. They call the lady at the window back, and a new bag of food appears. They drive away. Yay! Our turn!

We pull up for our turn at the delivery window. What do we get first? Drumroll please…….a small glass of ice water, with the water! Whaaaat? We also get the OJ and coffee. Boyfriend knocks on the drive through window to let the lady know we need help. She comes back, he tells her ice only please. She fixes it, and gives us straws and closes the window and disappears. We think she is getting our biscuits, but that’s not it folks. She comes back in 2 or 3 minutes and asks us what we want? Why are we still there? We look at each other and then at her and BF tells her we would like our biscuits please. She leaves and comes back again, this time with the manager, who also asks, why are we still there. Really. This happened. We’re going, Huh? Is this a prank? Is someone punking us? What do we want? I dunno. Maybe we want to get our food and leave. Which is what BF tells them, ‘We ordered a sausage egg and cheese and an egg and cheese biscuit. That’s all. We paid for them already.’ The window girl doesn’t remember she didn’t give us our food. Then it dawns on me. The first bag of food she gave the car in front of us was wrong. She must have given the biscuit part of our order to the car ahead of us. Wow. What can I say.

We finally do get two biscuits, but Boyfriend’s sausage and egg had no cheese. At this point we cut our losses. We have a vacation to start! Get me the heck outta Dodge please!

So, aren’t drive thru’s fun? I have had 3 meals screwed up this week alone. You probably have the same kinda stuff happen too. It’s really kinda miraculous when we do get what we order isn’t it? Hope you have better luck driving thru than we did. But that’s all in the past now. We’re at the BEACH! Later!

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Excuse Me While I Vent….

31 Jul

Ok, today’s yard sales are a bust mostly. Started out with just a little rain, so a few die hards tried to keep going, really wasn’t too bad at first and the temperature was nice enough. We did really score with 2 boxes full of nice picture frames, 3 books and a candle for $8.25. There is a reason there are no pictures of the haul today: the bottom has dropped out, the monsoon has begun! Probably 2 inches of rain in 5 minutes or so! Not good for yard sales or getting things out of your trunk if you don’t have a garage. :)

So, we are driving home in this mess and Boyfriend has to put the wipers on high just to try and see where he is going. One dark car or truck after the other is either coming at us or tailgating him, only problem is the colors of the cars blend in with the rain and gray day so much you don’t even know they are there until they are right on top of you. Alright stealth bombers! PUT ON YOUR LIGHTS FOR SAFETY PLEASE! I live in a state where it is even REQUIRED BY LAW, but 75% of people don’t obey it, and they are driving around hidden from view by the rain and moisture. Hello! You are the same color as the road people! Gray, black, dark blue, dark green, and even sometimes white. We can’t see you in the downpour unless you put on your headlights. Just look at the other cars on the road, are there any you have trouble seeing in the rain?

I wish I could have snapped a picture of some of them, you wouldn’t have been able to tell at all that there was a car in it. But rain is good, and we need it! So hopefully people will think to put on their lights, or maybe the rest of us can drive defensively enough to not have any accidents. Still, this remains one of my pet peeves!

I have others too. I can’t remember them at the moment (damn menopause!), but I will update you as events occur :) . I guess I could vent on the menopause thing too….several spam ‘comments’ have come my way to offer me help with this trying time of my life. Yeah, right. I’m going to trust someone’s website that sends me a spam or autobot comment. Come on! I DO have menopause, I DO forget some things, but I am NOT brain dead! Do any of you blogging girls have any strategies with spam or trash comments? Fill me in if you do, thanks!

Oh well, thanks for reading my rantings and ravings today! Hope you have a great weekend!

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