Ranting and Complaining

At lunch today I congratulated myself for thinking ahead and bringing my umbrella with me to work. I read the weather report and my reading comprehension skills are so finely tuned that I was able ascertain from "Chance of Thunderstorms and Locally Heavy Showers" that it was probably going to rain and possibly, heavily. What the forecast should have said was "100 percent Chance of Torrential Down Pours" or "Locally heavy demand for arks" I would have then also brought with me my fabulous rain boots and I would not have ended up with wet shoes and wet stockings and a very negative outlook on life as I went for lunch. I'm only lucky that my parking space isn't located in the part of the parking lot that by lunch time had been turned into a lake the Corp of Engineers would have been proud of.

The only good thing about the rain is that it might save my hydrangea from certain death and it could very well prevent me from mowing the lawn when I get home from work. I worked today at work and I don't look forward to working at home too, but no, it had to stop raining and now I see myself mowing the yard after all, unless it begins to rain on my ride home. If it is going to, historically, it should begin to pour rain as I am walking out the door and across the parking lot.

I was planning on Wendy's for lunch, but I left at 11:31 and that meant that by the time I got there, the line would be out the door. It was easier to just start off at McDonalds instead of wasting my lunch hour doubling back down the street and trying to make a u-turn during lunch time. McDonalds had their A-Team out today. They took my order and got it right the First Time! I was very proud of them. That location has not been great with getting my order right. It's very hard for them to understand that "Number 2 Meal, Plain and Dry NO CHEESE" means that I do not want cheese on my burger, I do not want salad on my burger and I do not want sauce on it either. It does not mean "just meat and bread and cheese" it does also does not mean "everything on it except cheese" it also does not mean "Give me a Fish Sandwich"

They make me tired. The assistant manger guy there is so nice though, always smiling and being friendly and all Customer Service -y, so I get all calmed down and refrain from telling the guy I have a job and I can't spend all afternoon waiting for his merry band of misfits to get my order right. I could eat elsewhere like across the street over at Wendy's where they almost never have messed up my order but the square burger puts me off.

Anyway.

Oh, another customer service related gripe, I called the local paper before I left and turned it off while I was out of town. I decided to be trusting and didn't demand to speak to a person, I spoke to the machine. Yesterday my good neighbor brought over two bags full of my newspapers which really irked me as I could swear that I remembered that had turned off the paper before I left. [the silver lining was I was able to get a copy of Saturdays Sylvia that I had read in the Chicago paper but then left there and afterwards I thought that if I had not done so I would have cut the cartoon out and put it on my refrigerator]. He mentioned that while they were out of town the same thing happened to them. While in at the airport in Chicago for four freaking hoursliningn flights,[Silver Lineing I was able to listen to Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me live! Well, almost live. It was on the radio but it's performed in Chicago so I was in the same city with it while they were doing it] and I thought that was cool.