Day 16
The cruel summer sun beats down through the window. Nary a breeze comes through… all is still. A dog barks in the distance. A dog barks again, this time closer and with more urgency.
Bark! Bark! Bark!
Damn dog… doesn’t he know he’s disturbing my pity party here on Day 16 of Life Without My Laptop? I have customer service centers to call… and be placed on hold with. At last, a real person… who has to read the novella my service record now must be and takes five minutes to read it all. All I want to do is make sure they have my laptop in their system as arrived at “The Depot”, so that, in theory, it can be looked at for the actual thing that is causing it not to work. Possibly even fixed… I dunno…I’m kinda hopeful about that. {You know, like the last year you believe – or sort of believe – in the Big Fat Guy in a Red Suit Who Brings You the BEST…STUFF…EVER (and fruit in your stocking)}.
“Yes, we can see from the UPS tracking you provided us that we must have your computer.” Gee, how encouraging.
Plans for Day 17: call after 3 pm to check on status. Plans for Day 17 Eve: dream of the BEST…STUFF…EVER that comes from the FedEx guy… a box with my fixed computer in it! Of course, the “fruit in my stocking” will be the delivery of an empty box they are sending me… just so I can send them my laptop (when I have already sent it to them on my own dime to cut out 4 to 5 more days of this hell).