Wednesday Tidbits
Larissa says that when I come home from work these days, I smell like “the inside of a spring roll”.
We just finished watching the movie Crash, which I’ve owned on DVD for at least 4 months, but which neither Larissa nor I had got around to watching until tonight. Excellent movie. I think its main point was “there are no easy answers to the racism problem”, but it did a great job of stretching that thought over 122 minutes.
I recently talked Bell Canada out of charging us a $100 termination fee when we decided to cancel our DSL internet service. Larissa told me that she was amazingly proud to have me for a husband after I hung up the phone. I’m actually considering starting a business talking to call centers on behalf of other people who are afraid to ask for their money back. I think the market for a service like that is pretty huge.
I had the chance to see an advanced screening of Superman Returns yesterday, but I didn’t. Larissa was feeling sick, and I decided to stay home with her. She told me I didn’t have to, but she was really happy that I did. That, my unmarried friends, is what you call making the right decision.
We are faced with the trouble of having to throw out 3/4 of an entire watermelon, because the task of slicing up and eating it all was too daunting. But then, the act of throwing out that much food makes me feel like a wasteful, gluttonous, North American pig, who is single-handedly responsible for African famine. I can’t leave it rotting in the fridge, and I feel like a jerk hauling it to the garbage bin. It’s lose-lose. The lesson here? Don’t buy watermelon.
I totally think your business idea re: call centres is a good one. I am such a wimp I end up signing up for things I totally don’t want… Like I have this stupid insurance on my HBC credit card that I totally want to cancel but haven’t got the motivation to have a huge conversation about it with the call centre people and with my luck I’d just sign up for HBC life insurance by the end of the call just to get off the phone. So yeah, good idea, when it’s up and running I have a list of things I should address… like cancelling my basic DSL (sympatico - 2 GB bandwith/month SUCKS!!!) and signing up for a better deal with someone else.
Comment by Julie — June 29, 2006 @ 3:47 am
Awww you’re a good husband. It’s not very often a guy will give up an advanced screening of Superman for his wife. If you find any other guy who does anything remotely similar, send him my way, okay?
Comment by Chrissy — June 29, 2006 @ 1:52 pm