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Mom got a picture she took published in the newspaper.

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I love when I get hilarious responses to the e-mails I send. Especially when you can tell the person I sent it to didn’t even bother to read my e-mail before they respond. Check out this e-mail conversation I’m having with Melissa, a SquareTrade Care Specialist.

I’m thinking of buying a Whirlpool 17.7 Cu. Ft. Upright Freezer (Color: White) ENERGY STAR from Lowe’s. The price is $548. I tried to get a quote for a warranty from your website, but it seems Refrigerator is the only option. Could I buy this Refrigerator warranty for my Upright Freezer?

Melissa responds …

Thank you for contacting SquareTrade.

Please accept our apologies for the confusion regarding your item.

SquareTrade covers hundred of thousands of electronics items sold by eBay sellers. The process of correctly identifying items depends largely on each seller properly categorizing the items they are listing.  Rest assured, we are currently working to improve/refine this process.  We do apologize for the confusion.
Thank you,
Melissa
SquareTrade Care Specialist

So, I reply with …

OK. Now, maybe you could actually READ my e-mail and then respond with something INTELLIGENT? Who is talking about buying something from eBay? Certainly not me. I am asking about a freezer from Lowe’s. Please re-read my original e-mail, consult a dictionary or perhaps someone who speaks English for assistance and try to come up with some sort of coherent response. Thanks.

Let’s see what happens …

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Christina’s 31st Birthday

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 What’s your plan?

“What’s your plan?” If I hear that one more time, I’ll probably have some sort of mental breakdown. “What’s your plan?” “What’s your plan?” “What’s your plan?” “What’s your plan? That’s what I’d like to know.

It drives me nuts when people pick up a few glib phrases in meetings and then use them to the point of farcicality in their management-speak. GMAFB.

In preperation for my eventual departure, I cleaned out my desk today and in place of my ‘The Office’ calendar, I hung a copy of the Serenity Prayer. I figured that will come in more useful in these last days then the wisdom of Steve Carell. Although, Steve Carell does have a good grasp of what life is really like in these windowless walls.

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Seriously, it doesn’t matter if you visit Wal-Mart at 2pm or 2am, you’re pretty much guaranteed at least a 20 minute wait at the cash registers.

Tina and I stopped at Wal-Mart Friday night to buy breakfast sausage. We had already bought the rest of the groceries we wanted at Publix in Tradition (where there was no lines, by the way). But, Wal-Mart sells a certain type of breakfast sausage we really like and can’t (unfortunately) find anywhere else.

So, we pull into the Wal-Mart parking lot and wade through the Sea of Gray Carts in an attempt to find somewhere to park.

We go into the store, proceed directly to frozen breakfast foods, grab two bags of the sausages (so we wouldn’t have to come back for a while) and go directly to the cash registers. Of the 30 cash registers, numbers 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30 are closed. The lines for the few open registers are enormous. The shortest line was 6 carts deep.

So, we chose register 1. The Speedy Checkout line. We were the 9th person in line. So, I’m sure you can imagine our checkout was anything but speedy.

God, forgive me, but I hate Wal-Mart.

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