Archive for July 13th, 2006

13
Jul

Reasons not to let Walgreen’s process your pictures

So . . . I took a lot of pictures at my Aunt’s funeral over the last few days.  It ended up being a mini-family reunion, and while we weren’t present for the best occasion, it was great to see everyone.   I shot film, so I took three rolls to Walgreens for processing to a CD.  About an hour ago, I went to pick up the pictures, which were promised to me by noon. 
 
As I exited the store, something told me to look at the pictures.  I opened one of the three envelopes to find pictures of strangers.  Fortunately, the other two contained the correct photos.  I went back into the store where the cashier who, despite her 15-inch green decorative plastic talons, clicked on the computer for a minute, and then began rifling through the photos of others to see where the mixup had occurred.
 
We STILL haven’t located the roll, and the ONLY reason why I didn’t completely let her have it is because she was trying to be very nice about it (even though she was the one who likely screwed it up) and I didn’t want to lessen her incentive to find my pictures once someone realizes they have the wrong ones. 
 
Needless to say, I’m a bit pissed.
13
Jul

Crazy week! Just returned from a trip to Virginia…

Crazy week!

Just returned from a trip to Virginia for the funeral of my aunt. It was sad, yet a celebration of her long and happy life.

Travel TOTALLY sucked. Got delayed on both in-bound and out-bound flights. I just returned from the airport, even though I should have arrived hours before. The cabin was dark, and tt would have been a perfect flight to get a couple hours of sleep. However, I was stuck on Sorority Air with three women sitting across from me who were cackling, giggling, and screaming the occasional “Oh my God!” during the entire flight. They were easily in their 30s, but behaved as though they were 20 and still residing in a house with Greek letters stenciled on the door.

Seriously . . . I wanted to slam them in the head with my carry on luggage and pour their Bloody Marys and Lite Beers all over their preppy little style-less outfits and bland mousy hair-don’ts, all while screaming “Shut the hell up, you boring bitches!”

I didn’t live the fantasy. Although I did manage well-delivered dirty looks.

I have to be in the office in less than 6 hours, so I should probably put the laptop down and get some sleep. Nighty!