After piddling around the house for a while first thing this morning I set out for the mall in search of a necklace to go with a new dress. I had one particular one in mind, but although I had been told by the store that it was there in stock, it wasn't. Turned out it wasn't even close to the one I was looking for. Oh well, another time.
A quick run through at Wally World armed me with vegetation killer for the yard. Time to take out some weeds and baby trees! Walter's quite protective over the grass though. I did promise to be careful around the new grass. I'm pretty sure that I didn't take out any of it.
Our installer, from Verizon, showed up promptly on time and set right to work getting us all set up. Turns out that the original installers didn't set up the phone line. It wasn't long before we were all set and the phone had a dial tone. It wasn't 20 minutes before the first call came into the house.....A TELEMARKETER!!!! Then about 2 hours later the second call came in and it too was a TELEMARKETER!!!!
What was particular interesting about the second call was that they already had my last name. Dang it had only been a week since we ordered the line, and we're already getting calls. Not good at all. I immediately hopped online and signed us up on the National Do Not Call Registry for all of our phone numbers. I know for sure that Walt isn't going to be happy at all if some telemarketer calls here during the day while he's sleep. I surely wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of that call.
Email & Newsletter Gleanings:
Skinny Dipping...
An elderly man in Louisiana had owned a large farm for several years. He had a large pond in the back. It was properly shaped for swimming, so he fixed it up nice with picnic tables, horseshoe courts, and some apple, and peach trees.
One evening the old farmer decided to go down to the pond, as he hadn't been there for a while, and look it over. He grabbed a five-gallon bucket to bring back some fruit.
As he neared the pond, he heard voices shouting and laughing with glee. As he came closer, he saw it was a bunch of young women skinny-dipping in his pond. He made the women aware of his presence and they all went to the deep end. One of the women shouted to him, 'we're not coming out until you leave!'
The old man frowned, 'I didn't come down here to watch you ladies swim naked or make you get out of the pond naked.'
Holding the bucket up he said, 'I'm here to feed the alligator.'
Some old men can still think fast !!!
The Restaurant
A group of 40 year old girlfriends discussed where they should meet for dinner. Finally it was agreed upon that they should meet at the Ocean View Restaurant because the waiters there had tight pants and nice buns.
10 years later at 50 years of age, the group once again discussed where they should meet for dinner. Finally it was agreed that they should meet at the Ocean View restaurant because the food there was very good and the wine selection was good also.
10 years later at 60 years of age, the group once again discussed where they should meet for dinner. Finally it was agreed that they should meet at the Ocean View restaurant because they could eat there in peace and quiet and the restaurant had a beautiful view of the ocean.
10 years later, at 70 years of age, the group once again discussed where they should meet for dinner. Finally it was agreed that they should meet at the Ocean View Restaurant because the restaurant was wheel chair accessible and they even had an elevator.
10 years later, at 80 years of age, the group once again discussed where they should meet for dinner. Finally it was agreed that they should meet at the Ocean View Restaurant because they had never been there before.
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