Daily affirmations of a word mercenary
Things standing between me and the 15 copies of a 4-page document that I need for my workshop:
#1: Too busy at work yesterday to print there.n
#2: New home printer is out of yellow ink, so it won’t print at all despite the fact that there’s plenty of black ink.n
#3: Too late to go buy new ink; Fry’s is closed.n
#4: Hook up old printer, but it needs drivers installed.n
#5: Install drivers, only to learn that that printer is out of ink too.n
#6: Beg Andreas to print documents at work. He agrees.n
#7: But no, he has a meeting!n
#8: Beg him to print before meeting, but no, he has morals (!!!) and suggests I go to Kinko’s instead.n
#9: Local Kinko’s is now a construction site; find other print/copy place.n
#10: Other print/copy place says it opens at 9am, but still isn’t open at 9:10, after I’ve stood and waited for 15 minutes.
nThankfully, at about the point when I was ready to slice my throat from ear to ear and lay down bleeding on the sidewalk (MY KINGDOM FOR A FUNCTIONING PRINTER!) a nice woman walked by and told me that Kinko’s had moved. Then she put me in her car (!!!) and gave me a ride up the street to the new Kinko’s. Thankfully from there everything was smooth. Fucking hell. Who knew it had to be so hard? I am Sisyphus with my print job.
Hey there. I'm Ariel Meadow Stallings, a native Seattleite who's written my way up and down the Left Coast. Electrolicious is where I post daily randomata, but I also write for a living. My first book, Offbeat Bride, was published last year.
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ROB
March 17th, 2006 at 5:06 pm
Two Words:
Mercury Retrograde
Vicky
March 18th, 2006 at 4:50 am
Wow! Nice lady. And yes, fucking mercury retrograde, Rob. I have decisions I need to make and I have to WAIT! Grr. Dumb planets.
Sara
March 20th, 2006 at 2:32 pm
I have the SAME troubles with the various Sprint/Nextel stores in downtown.
Do you carry Treo 650s? How about accessories? What the eff kind of store are you?!?! Can I switch numbers from the broken phone to the new phone? The store down the street says yes! Why can’t I do a warranty exchange?
The store at 5th and Union is THE WORST. Funnily enough, everything they tell me I can’t do, the Westlake store is more than willing to help me with.
FUCKING HELL IS RIGHT.