The post office's customer service line has holiday musak.
That's the sort of thing that will make people go postal.
Death is your art. You make it with your hands day after day. That final gasp, that look of peace. And part of you is desperate to know: What's it like? Where does it lead you? And now you see, that's the secret. Not the punch you didn't throw or the kicks you didn't land. She really wanted it. Every Slayer has a death wish. Even you.
Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 48 Contiguous States of Denial
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Gudanov - Dec 18, 2006 11:22:20 am PST #6865 of 10007
Coding and Sleeping
Dana - Dec 18, 2006 11:25:55 am PST #6866 of 10007
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
It's like a thirty-second bit of ads and music, and it just keeps repeating. I think this might actually be hell.
sarameg - Dec 18, 2006 11:26:43 am PST #6867 of 10007
The post office's customer service line has holiday musak.
There was music from A Charlie Brown Christmas playing at my post office. Which was mobbed. 30+ minutes, trying not to kill the woman with probably 50+ packages with my glare (in her defense, probably a business, shipping out last minute presents. )
Connie Neil - Dec 18, 2006 11:32:30 am PST #6868 of 10007
brillig
The post office's customer service line has holiday musak
And suddenly I'm remembering my own Year Without a Christmas, when I was on the other end of that customer service line, taking endless calls of how I was ruining people's Christmas, losing packages, etc. "What do you mean my package won't get to England before Christmas? It's only Dec. 20, I could fly to England and get there tonight." You do that, lady. For less than $5, though, it's going to take a little longer.
Sorry. Flashbacks. Sometimes I think I'm back in The Pit, with the endless phones ringing, and Joey's snapped and is screaming at the person next to him that he just can't take it anymore--
Sorry.
Gudanov - Dec 18, 2006 11:37:28 am PST #6869 of 10007
Coding and Sleeping
Which was mobbed. 30+ minutes, trying not to kill the woman with probably 50+ packages with my glare
Every body should die when I stare at them
This isn't happening as you can see
I don't know just who to blame for lacking this ability!
But my one wish on Christmas Eve is as plain as it can be!
All I want for Christmas
is a basilisk,
my own basilisk,
see my basilisk!...
sarameg - Dec 18, 2006 11:54:55 am PST #6870 of 10007
Hah!
I wasn't really all that cranky about it . More annoyed I hadn't gotten there 5 minutes earlier and gotten ahead of her. Though other people were a bit tetchy. When a new window opened up and the next-in-line didn't notice, you'd think her hair was aflame the way the whole line brought it to her attention!
Gudanov - Dec 18, 2006 11:56:19 am PST #6871 of 10007
Coding and Sleeping
War on Terror, the board game.
It seems in bad taste, but I have to sort of admire the sheer cynicism.
juliana - Dec 18, 2006 11:58:17 am PST #6872 of 10007
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
There was music from A Charlie Brown Christmas playing at my post office. Which was mobbed.
The PO right across from work was mobbed, but the A(utomated) P(ostal) C(enter) lines were blessedly short. I love those machines. I also love my mother for requesting that her package get to her last week, which allowed me to avoid the huge freakin' lines and just drop off the package for my Secret Santee today.
beth b - Dec 18, 2006 12:04:16 pm PST #6873 of 10007
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
basilisk
there's something that should be on my christmas list
Kat - Dec 18, 2006 12:12:04 pm PST #6874 of 10007
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
but the A(utomated) P(ostal) C(enter) lines were blessedly short. I love those machines.
I second this! APC rocks my world. Except they shut down for maintenance at midnight which makes the whole finishing up and shipping in the dead of the night thing tricky.