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Evidence of bad karma bringage-upon
Oct. 25th, 2009 01:56 pmSequence of events on Friday:
• Helped take care of some paperworky PITA at the bank, feeling good about myself.
• Succeeded in swapping stinky new headphones for better ones at the Apple Store.
• While crossing the street, gave an exaggerated, sneering "I'm walking here!" shrug to cars blowing through a red light at Porter Square. I did not see until after they passed that they were part of a funeral procession.
• Missed, by minutes, a UPS delivery I'd been waiting weeks for.
• Made things worse by calling and asking for a redelivery; with silent tittering they invited me to come pick it up at the depot under the bridge, not mentioning that the Friday-night line would be hours long.
• Burned up several minutes of one-hour Zipcar reservation trying to figure out how to make the car start via random button-mashing, because it's some newfangled keyless thingo. Had to give up and call Zipcar and ask them how to do it.
• Arrived, saw line, returned empty-handed.
• Was told by UPS that now that I'd exercised my pick-up option, they didn't wanna deliver it after all, so I'll have to rent another Zipcar for gord knows how long on Monday.
Moral: do not shake your fist in the wake of the dead, or they will inconvenience your consumerist lifestyle for days. Clearly.
• Helped take care of some paperworky PITA at the bank, feeling good about myself.
• Succeeded in swapping stinky new headphones for better ones at the Apple Store.
• While crossing the street, gave an exaggerated, sneering "I'm walking here!" shrug to cars blowing through a red light at Porter Square. I did not see until after they passed that they were part of a funeral procession.
• Missed, by minutes, a UPS delivery I'd been waiting weeks for.
• Made things worse by calling and asking for a redelivery; with silent tittering they invited me to come pick it up at the depot under the bridge, not mentioning that the Friday-night line would be hours long.
• Burned up several minutes of one-hour Zipcar reservation trying to figure out how to make the car start via random button-mashing, because it's some newfangled keyless thingo. Had to give up and call Zipcar and ask them how to do it.
• Arrived, saw line, returned empty-handed.
• Was told by UPS that now that I'd exercised my pick-up option, they didn't wanna deliver it after all, so I'll have to rent another Zipcar for gord knows how long on Monday.
Moral: do not shake your fist in the wake of the dead, or they will inconvenience your consumerist lifestyle for days. Clearly.
