One of my favorite commercials depicts the frustration of modern customer service calls. Here is a YouTube video of Peggy.
Care to share your favorite Customer NONservice frustrations?
Mutt and Jeff
Written By: JoJoisms
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Jan•
08•14
So we went to Sedona last week. It’s up in the mountains and, since it’s “winter” here in ARIDzona, it’s a little chilly up there.
Driving up in the morning it was 28 degrees and rose to a high of the low 40s.
I wore layers and peeled them off as the day progressed.
My dh is almost NEVER cold so here we are looking like Mutt and Jeff. I, in my light jacket and boots, and my husband, in shorts and sandals.
Looks like the photo was doctored, doesn’t it?
It’s National Letter Writing Week!
Written By: JoJoisms
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Jan•
07•14
This week is National Letter Writing Week! Let’s all celebrate by writing a letter!
Here’s mine:
J
What’s yours?
Spammers is dumb, but I’m not!
Written By: JoJoisms
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Jan•
05•14
So the other day I received this email:
Notice of appearance,
Hereby you are informed that you are due in the court of Houston on the 16 of January, 2014 at 09:00 am for the hearing of your case.
You are kindly asked to prepare and bring the documents relating to the case to Court on the specified date.
Please, download the copy of the court notice attached herewith to read the details.
Note: The case may be heard by the judge in your absence if you do not come.
Yours truly,
Martin Murphy
Clerk to the Court.
Several problems with this pop into my head:
1. How could I receive a notice to appear in a Houston court when I was never, ever IN Houston?
2. How on earth would a court get my email address?
3. Wouldn’t a REAL court appearance be MAILED?
4. Wouldn’t a REAL court give you an actual ADDRESS to appear and a case number?
5. Wouldn’t a REAL court give you more than a few days to appear?
6. “Hereby you are informed“, “You are kindly asked to prepare…“, “Note: The case may be heard by the judge in your absence if you do not COME.” and his title of “Clerk to the Court.” doesn’t sound quite right to me.
7. I didn’t just fall off the turnip truck. Do they really expect me to click on an attachment to find out what an unnamed court accused me of doing in a town where I never was?
No two obsessive compulsives are exactly the same
Written By: JoJoisms
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Jan•
04•14
JoJoism #497 “Ok which obsessive compulsive stacked my coasters so they are facing the same direction? I had them in a spiral!” JoJoisms: Revealing Life’s Truths…as I think of ’em!
My dh and I have a different idea of how things should be. I like things uncluttered so I strive to put things away…sometimes before someone is done using it. My dh puts things in strategic piles so he can go back to that topic and find a particular item within…unfortunately, in the almost 27 yrs we’ve been married, he’s never felt the need.
My dd loves to make sure the fringe on anything is all evenly distributed and straight. She gets upset if the wind blows them a bit askew (or you do it on purpose just to see her reaction). However, her room is usually covered in clothes such that you can’t see the floor. I think her room has carpet. LOL
My son doesn’t like wearing pants. Since we live in ARIDzona, it hasn’t really been a problem. He wears shorts and a t-shirt even when it’s 40 degrees. We went on a field trip a few months ago to the mountains and he wore his traditional shorts combo. It was in the 40s, windy, and we were outside most of the time. He said he was fine until he got home and then admitted he was a bit chilly in the morning until it warmed up a wee bit. We’re a little concerned about him when we move to Indiana. 40 is warm there!
So the other day when I saw my coasters, which are usually stacked in a spiral formation, all exactly and perfectly on top of one another, I felt the need to rearrange them, post haste. Which obsessive compulsive did that? That is completely uncalled for! She/he and I might have to have a severe talkin’ to!
What it would mean to have a government run by women
Written By: JoJoisms
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Jan•
03•14
Dictionary.com’s Word of the Day for Friday, August 30, 2013
gynarchy \JIN-er-kee, GAHY-ner-, JAHY-ner-\, noun: government by women.
I came across this word in August of last year and a comment I read once immediately came to mind. What would it mean to have a government run by women? What would change? Here are some of my thoughts:
* Five days out of every month would be deemed a holiday.
* Mother’s Day would be all 31 days of May.
* Things would get done faster because we multitask!
“If women ran the world we wouldn’t have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.” -Robin Williams
What do you think?
I offended a spammer and I’m not sorry!
Written By: JoJoisms
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Jan•
02•14
I’ve been spammed by the best of ’em and I have never replied, responded, clicked to unsubscribe or (heaven forbid) taken them up on their offer. And, apparently, at least one of them feels badly about that:
Subject line: I am hurt
From: user-rt@myonlinebussiness.com; on behalf of; Mike Gomez [moneywithgomez@yahoo.com]
Hey,
Quite frankly, I’m upset.
I have been trying to give you this link
for you to enroll for free, and you have not done it.Get here at this time
This is invitation-only, and I have been
Professionally inviting you.It was very hard for me to obtain this for you,
so don’t waste it, and don’t ignore my giftPlease do this today now!
Talk soon,
Mike Gomez
I offended a spammer and I’m not sorry!
New Year’s Resolutions Nobody Keeps
Written By: JoJoisms
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Dec•
31•13
Most people know they won’t keep their New Year’s Resolutions before they utter them. Here’s a partial list of resolutions nobody keeps:
* Lose weight
* Stop smoking
* Hold my tongue
* Control my temper
Nobody keeps New Year’s Resolutions so why not make realistic ones and keep your word?
* Gain weight
* Keep smoking
* Speak before I think
* Lose my temper
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* Eat more candy
* Spend more money
Happy New Year and you’re welcome! 😀
JoJoisms Year in Review
Written By: JoJoisms
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Dec•
30•13
Okay, so I’ve only been blogging JoJoisms since 8/28//2013 so I don’t have a full year in review, but let’s review the Top stories by popularity (most number of comments and presumably the most number of giggles).
Counting backwards from ten to the number one:
10. Here Lies My Flip Phone was a post about the beginning of my iPhone adventure. It also had an obituary for my purple flip phone which served me many years.
9. Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? was a post about some chickens which had apparently invaded my purple lap top.
8. How I Received a Product Four Days Before it Was Shipped is pretty self explanatory.
7. Smelling Smoke That isn’t There and Other Things That Never Happened is just as it appears too.
6. It’s My Birthday and I’ll DE-age if I Want To was a popular post with those of us considerably over the age of consent.
5. Freshly Pressed Glasses was the first post in the continuing saga, The Great Eye Glass Case!
4. Dr Strongarm I Presume was the second post in the saga that got a great deal of feedback.
3. Cactus Mickey got quite a bit of attention as we neared CHRISTmas in ARIDzona.
2. Inspirational 911 Message was one of my inspirational posts that got the most feedback and was the second highest talked about JoJoism post of the year. I received so many emails and even some comments on Facebook about this one. It was about my childhood friend who I had lost touch with and found years later that he died in the rubble of 911.
1. And finally, Make it So was the number one talked about post of all of 2013! This was simply a YouTube video of Captain Picard of Star Trek (and other characters) *singing* Let it Snow, Make it So, Let it Snow! It was day seven of my JoJo’s Annual Video Countdown to CHRISTmas!
Which is your favorite? Which one would you give a purple thumbs up to? Please leave the title/number in the comments and cast your vote. I’ll share the results in the next few days.
