I had to get LB out of school early today and it was a clusterfuck. What should have been a swoop and grab turned into a 20 minute ordeal because the school had their information all goofed up. At the beginning of every year we fill out a sheet with Sweety’s name, coaew’s name and my name and info on it as people that can pick up the boys. They had her name only but all of my info. I finally told the lady if she’d call the number listed as a contact in case he was sick that my phone would ring and recited the number to her. She didn’t call me but she did let me get him. I was getting him because he had an appointment with the dentist.
We get situated in the tiny waiting room at the dentist’s – really, tiny. Six waiting chairs and the receptionist. All of a sudden, my phone starts to ring. Have you heard the ringtone at the end of this commercial? Customized ringtones annoy the shit out of me for some reason. (If you have one, then I’d probably like it. Because you’re cool. But when I’m in the grocery store and someone’s phone goes off and it’s a song or a weird sound it makes my eye twitch. I’ve only bought one ringtone ever and it was part of a song that Sweety & I like. And I don’t have it anymore.) But I heard that horribly obnoxious thing and thought that I had to have it to use as my alarm clock ring. I set it as my actual phone ring the other day and forgot about it.
And I forgot to turn off my phone before going into the dentist’s office. You should have seen the look on the little old lady’s face who was sitting three feet away from me when it started blaring out of my purse. Of course I was flustered so it took forever to fish it out of my purse to shut it up. I’ve changed it back to the regular ring.
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Oh…I see what you are saying now about it “blowing up”….LOL!
Do you find that no one knows how to do anything correctly anymore?? I mean like the school NOT having the correct info even though you gave it to them…This really bugs the hell out of me! I have no patience with any of it! And it makes you wonder how well they are teaching the kids if they cannot get simple information down in a correct manner….Grrrrrrrrrr!!!
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Chickie said:
February 11th, 2010 at 9:29 pm
…makes you wonder how well they are teaching the kids… Exactly!
Why insist we fill out these forms if they aren’t going to be entered in properly? I’m so glad I didn’t faint from fury.
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February 11th, 2010 12:08 am
It’s always amazed me that we fill out the same form every single year and they never get it right. It doesn’t inspire a lot of confidence. Thing are so mixed up that no one can just go by what is on the form anyway, so there really isn’t any purpose for them.
The worst are people who use obscene rap music. You never know who’s going to be around whine your phone goes rings. I just have a “regular” ring tone. Everyone else in the family has one that is much more interesting. I actually liked the one I had on my previous phone better but it was built in and couldn’t easy be downloaded.
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Chickie said:
February 11th, 2010 at 9:31 pm
And what really got me about the form? After making me wait all that time, the dingbat let me take him because I could tell her the phone number on the form. What if I’d been some looneybird that wanted to steal a kid so I killed the parent and got their phone number?
Oh, yes! The cursing ring tones. I especially despise those.
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February 11th, 2010 4:50 am
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