Uninvent this (Motif Monday with mrtl
I don't know if I've participated in this yet, but it fits my mood lately, and definitely today. I've got a list, so brace yourselves:
1. The cell phone. Why must we be at everyone's beck and call 24/7? Do my husband's clients REALLY need to call him at 9 p.m. on a Sunday evening? Does he REALLY need business so bad that he must take the call? (Judging from his checks the last couple of months, the answer is definitely NO). I know cell phones can prove useful in an emergency; so why not just make little beepers that dial 911 at the push of a button? I know they can program cell phones to only dial emergency numbers...let's leave it at that.
While we're at it, let's just uninvent anything that makes it possible for people (read: my husband) to do ridiculous amounts of work at all hours of the day: fax machines, answering machines, beepers, laptops, yes, even the internet. I know I would not be writing this blog right now were it not for the internet, but at least for today, I don't care. Just get rid of it.
2. The 70 mph speed limit (here in Indiana, anyway). MUST WE DRIVE THAT FAST, PEOPLE? Where are you going in SUCH. A. HURRY? Just because they can make cars that go that fast and faster today does not mean we have to push the envelope. Someday the speed limit will top 100 mph, safe or not. Save it for the Indy 500.
3. The snooze alarm. This is the bane of my existence, both for myself and my husband. It's just so easy to press the little button to make the annoying beeping go away, knowing it will alert us to get up 4 (or 8) minutes later. And what is that, anyway? Why not 5 or 10 minutes? Aren't those numbers a bit more logical? In any case, the snooze gets hit way too often in this house.
4. Telemarketing. 'nuff said.
Can you tell I'm in a mood? This had better be hormonal (and short-lived) because if it's not, my family is IN. FOR. IT.
1. The cell phone. Why must we be at everyone's beck and call 24/7? Do my husband's clients REALLY need to call him at 9 p.m. on a Sunday evening? Does he REALLY need business so bad that he must take the call? (Judging from his checks the last couple of months, the answer is definitely NO). I know cell phones can prove useful in an emergency; so why not just make little beepers that dial 911 at the push of a button? I know they can program cell phones to only dial emergency numbers...let's leave it at that.
While we're at it, let's just uninvent anything that makes it possible for people (read: my husband) to do ridiculous amounts of work at all hours of the day: fax machines, answering machines, beepers, laptops, yes, even the internet. I know I would not be writing this blog right now were it not for the internet, but at least for today, I don't care. Just get rid of it.
2. The 70 mph speed limit (here in Indiana, anyway). MUST WE DRIVE THAT FAST, PEOPLE? Where are you going in SUCH. A. HURRY? Just because they can make cars that go that fast and faster today does not mean we have to push the envelope. Someday the speed limit will top 100 mph, safe or not. Save it for the Indy 500.
3. The snooze alarm. This is the bane of my existence, both for myself and my husband. It's just so easy to press the little button to make the annoying beeping go away, knowing it will alert us to get up 4 (or 8) minutes later. And what is that, anyway? Why not 5 or 10 minutes? Aren't those numbers a bit more logical? In any case, the snooze gets hit way too often in this house.
4. Telemarketing. 'nuff said.
Can you tell I'm in a mood? This had better be hormonal (and short-lived) because if it's not, my family is IN. FOR. IT.
posted by Andrea | 10:42 AM
7 Comments:
I like your list. I struggle with the cellphone thing. Love/hate/love/hate..I can't decide.
Ooh, I've got on. On hold. I hate being put on hold by every company I ever try to call. GRRRRR. (Can you tell I'm on hold, at this very moment? Yeah, and have been for 10 minutes.)
Weetzie, there are times I appreciate cell phones, in all honesty. This week is not one of them.
Dawn, hold on. Whoa. I'm not pregnant. I mean, there's truly no way, because a while back I peed on a stick to be sure, and since then, well...it's REALLY impossible, because, um, well, you know, there are CERTAIN THINGS that have to happen to get pregnant, and, er...they haven't happened. My comments about hoping this is hormonal just meant this had better be a temporary mood, or else I'm just going insane ;)
Kalki, first of all, I think you made me laugh for the first time today at the realization that you not only blog while at work, you blog while you've been put on hold at work. And YES, we could uninvent the whole "hold" thing, and the ridiculous choices the hold gods ask us to make, the sappy elevator music they force us to listen to whilst we wait, and oh yeah, the phrase "your call is important to us".
About the snooze control...
Well, I WAS your roommate for a year. I will vouch for its demonic influence. ha ha ha.
(except for the chicken alarm...)
I drive my hubby CRAZY with the snooze button! I love it. He hates it. I'm working on it. :)
Wow. Time for a chai and book break? Without cells, faxs, kids? Or, do you and hubby need a night in with the kids out?
Im with mrtl on the speed limit thing... If I dont have the cruise set I end up going to mph's that would make you hurt me right now.
Snooze alarm gets the prize for me -- it is like torture...waking up once is bad enough, but waking up 2 or 3 times in one morning is inhuman.
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