Anderson Adventures: Let's Talk About Thursdays

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Let's Talk About Thursdays

I shall begin with a preface.....Thursdays are NOT a happy day, so this will be more of a work related vent.

Ok, so, I'm not sure if it's just me, but the most idiotic and ridiculous people in the world call places on Thursday! Seriously! I'm not even kidding. I HATE working Thursdays just because of that reason. The day is long because it's Thursday anyway and then the first phone call of the day confirms that my anxiety is going to be heightened and that it's going to be a long doozey of a day. Let me give you some examples:

"Can I have free contacts?" No, lame cakes, you can't.
"Hi, my name is Mark, I get 6 months of the dailies and you give me next day shipping for free." Ok, Mr. I'm entiteled to whatever I want. I'll give you free shipping because my company will penalize me for going against what your ridiculousness just said to me and you'll be pompous for the rest of your life.
Me asking for the customer's email address. "Oh, my email is megsmith...." Ok....is there more to your email? "No that's it." Uh....no, there's more. "No." YES!!!!! "Oh (giggles at herself), it's at gmail.com." Retarded!
"How much are my contacts for one box." That will be $18.99 for that one box, sir. "WHAT???? I can't afford that! Do you think I'm made of money!" Uh....I'm sorry....then you shouldn't be buying contacts if you can't pay for them.
"I don't want you to verify with my doctor." Sorry, by law, we have to verify (followed by a long explanation of why we have to). "Well, I don't want you to. Why do you have to?" Let me repeat myself....by LAW we have to. Reason enough. Thanks.
This is my personal favorite. Biggest pet peeve ever! Super huge influx of these people on Thursday. Can I please have your address? As the customer repeats the address and SPELLS every word out for me. "My address is 2456 Old O-L-D.....Oak O-A-K.....Road." Thank you for helping me with the words I mastered in the kindy-garten spelling bee. If I didn't hate you by now, then I do forever after that.

These are all the winners that I got to talk to today. Don't get me wrong, these happen every day of the week, but Thursdays are the WORST. They're not funny. They're usually ornery people that need their lenses tomorrow, but we can't possibly help them because there isn't enough time to get them out. It's like ordering something online at 11:59 pm and expecting them at 6 am the next day. Not going to happen. One more Thursday left!

4 comments:

Lindsey said...: I honestly am ROLLING Stace- this is hilarious! I can't stop laughing- oh wow I love this. Thank you I needed that!! HAHAHAHA :)Oh how I love you. You are so funny!; July 8, 2010 at 6:57 PM
Jenny Showalter said...: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I seriously LOVE YOU and am going to be so sad when you leave me to deal with these idiots by myself. I was about to cry trying to read them out to my roommate and her friend.; July 8, 2010 at 9:02 PM
Adam and Rachel said...: Ha ha! I hate working Thursdays too! They seriously are the worst!; July 9, 2010 at 3:39 AM
Kateka said...: Where I work, I'll ask for people's names and stuff, and it seems like the EASIEST names will be spelled out for me, but when the name is like foreign and unheard of, I am meant to make up the spelling. So I agree with you there! So annoying!; July 16, 2010 at 1:09 PM

Out of the mouth of Claire

Claire was asking me about Hailey nursing. She was sad to find out that Hailey wasn't nursing anymore. She said, "Well, when I am a mommy can you give my babies milk?" Uh...nope. Can't do that. "Why mom?" Well, my milk will be gone (thank goodness) and you'll have to do it. "Oh, well, I want a big, big, BIG family. TWELVE babies! But I don't want the littlest baby to ever get big because I do NOT want one hundred babies." March 2015
Claire: Daddy, do you stink? Brian: Why do you say that? Claire: Because I can smell you. 6/18/14
Claire walked out of her room and this is what ensued: Daddy: "Claire, get back to bed." Claire: "But Daddy, my bed is being crazy!" (We try hard not to laugh). Daddy: "What?" Claire: "My bed is being crazy!!!" He went back, she tangled her blanket so her feet were getting cold. 5/15/2014
Claire asked her sunbeam teacher what "this" was, pointing to something on her chest. She thought she was talking about the pattern on her dress. Claire said, "No, no! These. They are for milk for babies." 5/2014
Eating corn on the cob for dinner, Claire turned to me and asked, "Mommy, are you going to eat some of this YUUUUMMMMYYY corn?" 5/2014
"Mommy, can you do this for me?" She hands me my eyelash curler and I proceed to curl her eyelashes. She bats her eyes in the mirror and says, "There. That's better." For the record...I have never done this, so she didn't learn it from me. 1/28/14
I was doing Claire's hair , combing through it. "Mommy, stop brushing my hair, you're making me crazy." 1/28/14
Claire has a VERY hard time going #2 in the toilet. She will hold it for days and days, so she ends up sitting on the toilet for hours sometimes. This week, she had been in there for a good two hours (and never went). Anyway, during that time she called me in several times, "MOMMY!!!! Come here!!!" And then would tell me nothing. So, after what seemed like the billionth, "MOMMY come here!" shouting, I went in to find her with the ENTIRE roll of toilet paper collected in a heap in her arms. I looked at her and gasped in frustration. I had just changed that roll! Brand new roll. Think of all that! She looked at me, giggled, and said, "Mommy...hehe....I sneezed...hehe." 1/28/14
We had our first ice storm here in Texas. I took Claire to Costco and let her walk on the ice. "Mom, I need to put on my ice skates". "Claire, do you have ice skates?" "No mom, I don't." Good point though sweetheart!
Claire always wakes me up telling me that the sun is awake. The other day, she came in, told me the sun was awake once more and then told me that she wanted some candy. I informed her that we didn't have any, but she said, "Mom, all we have to do is say Trick-or-treat!"
We went camping and I asked if Claire had fun. Claire: "I love camping, but Jared was naughty. We should leave him home".
Me: "Claire, why are you out of bed?" Claire: "Because of this..." She starts moving as if she'll pee her pants. Me: What? Claire: "Because I have the wiggles."
While at the mall bathroom, "MOMMY! YOU DID IT! YOU PEED!" For everyone to hear.
We're still trying to potty train Claire and have her poop in the potty! She says she does it, but can't seem to have it happen and will hold it for days (which is very frustrating). In an effort to get the ball rolling, I said, "Claire! Let's both push. 1...2...3...push!" At that point I did a fake push and she quickly exclaimed, "MOMMY! Don't poop in your pannies!" 7/12/13
Jared was crying and wandering around the house this morning. He popped his head in the bathroom where Claire and I were, and started to cry. Claire said, "Oh Jared, stop whining". 7/3/13
Brian and I were talking about the frustrating expenses of moving. At one point I said (about our debt), "It's all my fault." Claire came to the rescue and said, "NO! It's MY fault! My fault....and Jared's!"
This morning Claire woke up at 5 am screaming, "I WANT A COOKIE!!!!!" I went in, she repeated her sentiments. I promised her a cookie and she went back to sleep. When she got out of bed at 10:30, she jumped into my arms and said, "Where's my cookie?"

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Thursday, July 8, 2010

Let's Talk About Thursdays

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