Friday, June 8, 2007
Online again
Sometimes small things are able to make one happy - such as a functioning data line. Ours didn't work in the morning, so I called the phone company. There I got a lady who was obviously very busy with chewing a gum and sounded as if she'd want to be cast in a soap opera (as the bitchy visitor from America). She mumbled something like: "Yeah, I know - we're having big trouble with your line ...", didn't think of something like apologizing (we're paying for this f******ing line and this not too less, so I think something like "We're sorry, but we can't serve you at the moment" could be appropriate) and didn't have a clue if and when the "big trouble" would be solved. But she promised me she would call if she'd heard something new about. She didn't - it was son who discovered we're online again. Son and I were quite happy about, only son's father was mumbling something like: "What did I do to deserve living with a house full of online junkies?" I really don't know - I always wonder too how he deserves having a brillant son and a clever girlfriend. ;-)
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
7 comments:
I absolutely understand that feeling. (Not living in a house with online junkies - I mean the functioning data line making one happy). Glad you're back!
Dear Sibylle,thank you for understanding! Off line one feels like being on a lonely island - and though I really have had enough work to do over the day and therefore couldn't have surfed long: I missed the knowledge that I could if I'd want ...Funny thing, isn't it?Maxieobviously a true online junkie
*nods*Absolutely. It's the "not being able to" bit that's the bad thing.When one is simply too busy to go online it's a Choice one makes. But when the net isn't working for some reason that choice is taken away, and one isn't in control anymore. Rather the thing has control over one then. So I don't think it's more of "machine vs. man", who controls whom, than necessarily being a junkie or being addicted. At least, that's what I tell myself... .
And that should be "So I DO think it's ...". Bed-time for me ... if nothing else, randomly negating sentences is a sure sign of that. So, off I shall be ... *hugs*
And that should be "So I DO think it's ...". Bed-time for me ... if nothing else, randomly negating sentences is a sure sign of that. So, off I shall be ... *hugs*
Good night, my fellow net junky. Sleep well and have sweet dreams. ;-)
thank you! night night!!
Post a Comment