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New
Year 2006
Time for New Beginnings
So far, I have had
no desire to write and we're several days into the New Year
of 2006.
I started therapy last week in order to get my shit together
and hopefully not repeat my mistakes again. In other words,
perhaps I will learn to spot and accept a Healthy relationship
when it smacks me on top of the head. Hopefully, I will
not become quickly bored as it appears I am totally attracted
to crazy bitches. Somehow, they're just much more fun. The
end result, however, is NEVER pretty.
So, onto a new topic....the American Airlines reservation
phone system. Just before the Thanksgiving holiday, I had
to run a friend to the airport to catch his flight home.
I made him drive my car because I hate freeways and we're
buzzing towards the airport. He hands me his phone and a
slip of paper with his reservation number on it. At this
point, I panic and say to him, "I have no idea what
I'm doing."
"Just
dial the number" he says "and punch in my reservation
code. Then we'll know my gate and terminal assignment."
I have no idea why stupid shit like this makes me so nervous
but it does.
"Welcome to
our reservation system. Please enter your reservation number
now." So, I put it in, but my friend's handwriting
confused me and I missed a digit.
"We do not recognize your reservation number, please
try again."
So I enter the number again by reciting it into the phone
since this is a voice response system. Once again, the system
says "We do not recognize your reservation number,
please try again. I then recite the reservation number for
the third time and I can sense the system pausing. At this
point, I'm so frustrated and nervous, I scream into his
phone, "Just put a real FUCKING person on the phone!!!"
Almost immediately after my outburst, the system responds
in a panic, "WE FOUND YOUR RESERVATION, please hold!"
The timing, impeccable...was too much for my friend and
me. We began laughing hysterically and could not stop. It's
like I scared the hell out of the reservation system by
yelling at it. I really wonder if the system is programmed
to recognize when people get frustrated and begin to swear
at the thing. My friend says he laughed all the way to his
destination and people were looking at him like he was weird
(which he is!)
So, next time you all need a real human on the phone, just
cuss at the top of your lungs at the automated system. A
Human Being will be with you in a jiffy.
Signing Off,
The Angry Lesbian
01/08/2006
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