Dec 26 2007
Already?
The craziness with the phone has begun. We were supposed to get the phone turned on Christmas Eve at 10 a.m. I’m not sure when it actually got turned on that day. At 11 a.m. I was on the phone with the phone company arguing with them about the fact they were telling me they couldn’t tell me WHEN someone as going to show up to actually turn the phone on.
In the end we established that I didn’t actually have to be here while they did it so I was safe to go over to our relatives house for our family celebration and wasn’t going to be chained to the house all day.
We got back at 1 a.m. and found a note tacked on the door knob telling us the phone was connected. We spent all the next day out at relatives as well. Today at 9:15 a.m. I started getting phone calls. All telemarketers. 2/3 of them were for a couple called “Karen and Brian” who apparently used to have our phone number. The others were either offering credit card machines or imprinted promotional products of one kind or another. I know people have to work…just some times I would sincerely like to be able to do what I’m wanting to do and not constantly be interrupted for phone calls that I get excited about and wind up being crushingly disappointed because this person seems to think the fact that I use PayPal is not good enough and I should be super hyped because they want to offer me some horrible machine that will steal half of my credit card transaction in fees and rental anyway.
