[Behemoth]

Every professor I have has somehow realized that hey, it's nearly thanksgiving break and I haven't assigned any homework this semester. All at the last minute, all due by the end of next week. Plus I'm somehow supposed to write up an article and give a talk, also next week. I need sleep, damnit!

[winesonoma]

Woke up at 2:30 am, been up since. Bummer

[GG Mora]

My Sears appliance service call has been helpfully scheduled for “some time between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.” today. Thanks. I'll just chain myself to this post here and hold my breath.

[tanabutler]

I'll be right over with the whips, GG.

The sheriff might not serve the temporary restraining order tomorrow because it's a holiday. (And, laden with irony, it's Armistice Day.)

[Tamar G]

I can't pick up my new glasses until next week. I want them. Now. IWANTTHEMIWANTTHEMIWANTTHEM! I'm really bad at being patient.

[Daisy]

American Express call center in a land far,far away. Having to shout at relatively clueless woman over static and incessant beeping in order to be heard. Cable company double billing me, which is what necessitated making the call.

[GG Mora]

GG Mora, on Nov 10 2005, 10:42 AM, said:

My Sears appliance service call has been helpfully scheduled for “some time between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.” today. Thanks. I'll just chain myself to this post here and hold my breath.

And the bastards never showed up.

[mongo_jones]

what happens to the time spent in a small, lonely room waiting for the doctor to "be with you momentarily"? is this a special category of time? certainly, the doctor, when he eventually shows up, never acknowledges that it has passed. and how is it that it always comes to an end just when you finally pick up a magazine and get to an interesting point in the one decent story in it?

[Wilfrid1]

I a parade.

[Ron Johnson]

mongo_jones, on Nov 11 2005, 02:31 PM, said:

what happens to the time spent in a small, lonely room waiting for the doctor to "be with you momentarily"? is this a special category of time? certainly, the doctor, when he eventually shows up, never acknowledges that it has passed. and how is it that it always comes to an end just when you finally pick up a magazine and get to an interesting point in the one decent story in it?

don't forget to mention that the magazines are always from 1998.

[fantasty]

More of a disappointment than an annoyance: my local Dunkin' Donuts was out of French crullers this morning.

[Wilfrid1]

Ron Johnson, on Nov 11 2005, 02:33 PM, said:

mongo_jones, on Nov 11 2005, 02:31 PM, said:

what happens to the time spent in a small, lonely room waiting for the doctor to "be with you momentarily"? is this a special category of time? certainly, the doctor, when he eventually shows up, never acknowledges that it has passed. and how is it that it always comes to an end just when you finally pick up a magazine and get to an interesting point in the one decent story in it?

don't forget to mention that the magazines are always from 1998.

I like the doctors who beckon you from the doorway to the consulting rooms, then vanish, so that by the time you have put down your book or magazine, changed your reading glasses for regular, picked up your coat and closed your bag, you have no idea where they are waiting.

[Daisy]

Wilfrid, on Nov 11 2005, 02:33 PM, said:

I a parade.         

Oh, did you try to cross Fifth Avenue? Did you happen to come upon the ladies who wandered into the lobby of my office building looking for the public restroom?

[Wilfrid1]

I did not try to cross the Avenue. Annoyingly, walking a few blocks down it, I found it impossible not to march in time with the music. This means I am a latent fascist. (Wanted to try the Godwin Law.)

[flyfish]

GG Mora, on Nov 11 2005, 02:24 PM, said:

GG Mora, on Nov 10 2005, 10:42 AM, said:

My Sears appliance service call has been helpfully scheduled for “some time between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.” today. Thanks. I'll just chain myself to this post here and hold my breath.

And the bastards never showed up.

Oooh, I hate this. I assume there will be no need for the Sears dispatcher to visit a proctologist for awhile?

I almost had to give my DH CPR a week ago when Purolator failed to deliver something he'd been anxiously waiting for. Supposedly they had tried - but if they did, they did not leave a card. Then he found out the item was on the brink of being "returned to sender", despite his having called several times looking for it. Then they attempted to deliver it during a three-hour window when he had specifically told them he would NOT be home, left a card saying it would be at the depot any time after 4:00 p.m., and when we got to the depot at 6:00 we were told, "oh, it must still be on the truck." Which was parked in the lot with dozens of other indistinguishable trucks, no driver, no keys.