Needing to tell off people, nicely... and getting in the last word...too!

Mitt Romney won the primary in New Hampshire easily last night.
Now he just needs 1130 out of the 2,286, more delegates to win the Republican candidate nomination; and South Carolina is next. From there it goes back and forth from primary to caucuses and to me it gets confusing… in the final what happens on November 6. 2012 is what counts.
His days I am more than sure are tremendously busy as all the competition field of hopefuls.

I, on the other hand, have tame days with my own unique ways of creating excitement.
Last week we nearly caved into giving up on our free TV ala antenna and converter boxes and Hubby called our local cable company.
Who by the way out sources their customer service to the Philippines, hmm?
They told my dear Hubby that they weren’t sure that we were in an area where cable was able to be, what? But don’t worry, they would get back to us within twenty-four to forty-eight hours…that was last Thursday, January fifth at approximately one fifteen in the afternoon, aren’t cell phones amazing?

Any-who, the only reason we had given up we were again having that anomaly of no programs working and constant pixeling or no signals. And after hours of this problem all day long the next day when it appeared not to resolve itself, we made that giant leap into what we thought was the only answer, caving in…
As I said before, Hubby made the initial call and was baffled by the young woman’s response, why you so boldly ask. Well, I will tell you, although we do not live in city limits, we are not out in the country by any means. And the trucks from this particular company have many customers in our neighborhood, and that should have been the give-a-way! But they were insistent, must have been since Hubby said we have not had cable in quite sometime and not in this home, yep we went cold turkey way back in 1995.

Now that you know the background a little you might understand why I was annoyed and Hubby not so much. Since he felt it wasn’t necessary to call them back since our problem once again somehow someway fixed itself, and Hubby also replaced a part with our old one that he saved since after Hurricane Charley removed that one from the roof! (And pretty much most of the roof too back in 2004!)

But I was pissed, oops did I say that? (Cringe factor, once again, Geez you would have thought by now that I had gotten over that, hmm?)
And so I called all three of the phone numbers Hubby gleaned from his determination last week. One of them was a no-answer at all, the other was a perpetual busy, busy and the third supposedly was directly to customer’s service, but ended up being a direct line to their customer’s repair service, but too late, unfortunately, for my anger took over with a ranting out my displeasure to an unsuspecting totally innocent service person! After I apologized…
And so it was a very long process, but I didn’t win an award for perseverance in business for nothing way back when (1968, embarrassing how long ago that was…OOPS)!
When I finally got through, a pleasant sweet young woman said all the right things and I asked to speak with her supervisor after she looked up our original request and realized that someone in their office did drop the ball… the phone call, which was way in the PHILLIPINES! (Actually, amazing, but bittersweet)
The supervisor also was good at her job, nice to hear women in those roles even in a distant country; anyway, she commiserated and felt that the person if tracked down would be reprimanded. I told her that it is a bad representation for their company, my word of mouth statement again about it going both ways with good and bad.
She wanted us now to be a customer of course and I told her we might in the future but right now their company has left a bad taste in our mouths. Especially, the quoted initial price which was over fifteen bucks higher than their own commercial!

Gosh, can anyone you know go on and on like me about something which was a blip in time? And so even though I was going to tell you about another incident that fired me up today to handle… allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you to kindly to count all those blessings and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

End, what a provocative word, but not really, or is it?

End: finish, conclusion, closing stages, last part, stop terminate, finish off, halt, finish, extremity, edge, side, tip, top, bottom, base, purpose, aim, result, outcome, objective, goal that has been reached, and that is my point, which also means the end!

When we say an end of an era we mean that times are a changing.
Or when we say that the day has ended it usually means that the sun has gone down and the moon has risen.
When we end a relationship it usually means that it is kaput, over!
But when we end our lives we are hopefully very old; more than one hundred these days.
Too many end theirs too soon as we all know from ills or accidents and those ‘ends’ are not comforting or good.
Trials end when both sides rest their case, the defense and prosecution, and the decision making goes on to the jury or judge.

Some days I feel that my end is near.
Oh no, not my life since I have hopefully years of battle left in me, but with writing this blog on a nightly basis.
Is it worth the effort when you don’t pull the great numbers every night; just an introspective rhetorical question of writing/thinking out loud, so to speak or not.
My readership is not unlike a cardiogram whose patient is have an atrial fibrillation or perhaps a comparison of a roller coaster ride might be more apropos, and yes it has happened before, many times…hmm…so it has to my blog; relief...

The other ‘end’ I was going to bring up, don’t worry, not the rear, derriere, bum or tushy one, that is in many ways just plain silly and I don’t even know if I should even mention it but you promise you won’t laugh at me, with me is OK, I guess… Oh go ahead it’s good for all of us, to laugh that is… Tomorrow, as many know is my birthday and it begins the four and half months out of the entire year that Hubby and I are the same age! I told you it was silly! You see, he is only seven and half months older than me, and starting tomorrow, as in every previous year, at this time we become the same age for those too long four and half months!
And that age is what Jack Benny said his age was for too many years plus twenty-two, got it? This is one of those times that I am hoping that you’re not a math whiz! LOL!
Verbally astute people aren’t always, different side of the brain; you know, of course you all did, since you are brilliant.
Only a few are and I used to be; right and left brain-ed that is and am proud to say on occasion, at times, I still am!
Not being a genius is not that bad though.
It hasn’t stopped me as you all know all too well…
But stop me from what?
Why that’s a ridiculous question, since everyone who reads this know that nothing can stop me from SPEAKING MY MIND.
To whoever will listen or not…nightly as I blow off steam or ideas of silliness without an end…I hope and you should never ever end either that is unless you have no other choice… and that is a relationship, a court case or a job or …you get my point or even your own BLOG!
Be an energizer bunny for yourself and reactivate that joy in you to continue as always…
On those words to scratch your head over let me be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you to count all your blessings and to share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?


PS and let us not ever forget the best things in life… that end, perhaps too soon… a great book, incredible movie and a song that causes chills or wonderful enduring memories…