happy birthday Prince/shitty situation

[terebi_me]

Happy birthday to Prince, who turns some shamefully old age today. Still, he can walk in heels and I can't, so there you go. I'd still hit it till it turned black and blue, and then we'd talk shit about Morris Day until the sun came up

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[deprivation]

ack!

i had a similar situation, but i was depositing a check at the time, and the machine just froze.

i was at my credit union using the machine, so i went up and talked to them -- they had a new card printed for me in 5 minutes. having to wait is just stupid. does your bank not do card printing on demand?

[terebi_me]

Apparently not - they're a quite small credit union - and the woman in "card services" I spoke to sounded kind of annoyed to have to help me in the first place. FUCK HER. TWO WEEKS! MY BIRTHDAY! *$^?%@!

[mydarkstar]

The people who work in the call centres ALWAYS hate to have to help anybody. I understand it, because I've done plenty of that work myself and it's hard to want to do anything when you're sitting in a tiny partition making no money and have no real power to help anyone, but it's still fucking awful to be on the other side. I never ever bother calling my bank anymore, after being told every time that they can't do anything for me. I just show up at the branch and always receive pretty much the result I was looking for.

[terebi_me]

As far as I know, it's not in a call center - it's an actual job at the actual bank branch, or so I thought - she's got an extension within the bank itself. Of course, I know that that doesn't mean anything. ;)

The nice young gent I spoke to to deactivate the card last night was a total sweetheart/smoothie, though - he complimented me on being able to remember my card number. I didn't want to tell him, "Dude, with all the online purchasing I have done over the eleven years that I've had basically that same card number, I'd better know it." And of course I have had no other kind of financial services card in fifteen years.

[minervasteel]

Meanwhile, let's take the piss out of goth dorks:

http://community.livejournal.com/goth_macros/

I laugh...through my shame

xoxo
Alex

"I'm so goth, my puke is black"

[terebi_me]

o theee despayre!! it iz so elegunt.

yr shame it iz delishus 2 me.

[joined comm instantly]

[misprid]

I'd hit it too. and you know he probably comes up to my knee. heh.

[terebi_me]

Roughly, yeah! :) My dearly departed friend Sam Quicksilver (R.I.P. and only the awesome die young) who used to work at the Paisley Park store in Minneapolis, where the Squiggle himself would often come in to play any of his huge collection of guitars they stored there, said he was 5'1", maybe, if he was being generous.

I mean, golly, he's bite-sized! <3

Must listen to "Erotic City" as soon as I get home.

[keyboy]

Sam Quicksilver. Man...dude. I miss him.

[terebi_me]

For reals.

It's his birthday tomorrow. :( I should listen to some Queens of the Stone Age to celebrate (in between incessant DURAN DURAN ACTION for to celebrate the Continuation of the Rhodes). And get Benke in on it, too. And maybe Martti.

[dantes_pimp]

I think my friend said it best: "Technology is here to screw us."

Computers. ATM machines. Cell phones. I swear, it'll be the Terminator apocalpyse for us all. >_>

Glad to hear things are a little better. ^_^

[terebi_me]

But... without the technology, we'd have no lolcats or Zachary Quinto picspams or coffee made very easily. If it wasn't for the internet to occupy this jackdaw's mind of mine, I'd be a serial killer.

You just have to keep it in LINE. Grind those droids underfoot and show 'em who's boss.

My God, Eddie Izzard is on the Daily Show right now and he is so high on coke I can practically taste it myself. And yet he's still delightful. How does he do that?