Mutti Chronicles

…Wait a minute…Didn’t we just get a fruit of the month? Ah yes, the papayas. That didn’t taste that great. This time it’s cherries.

I always thought I was pretty tolerant of things like dripping blood, people or pets throwing up, and other forms of gross stuff. Until today that is. I have managed to live through child birth, various surgical and dental procedures, all without getting too queezy. But the sight of mouthfuls of blood falling into the sink after wisdom teeth being removed, was enough to almost send me into major nausea. But I think it was mostly because I was hungry at the time and it was about 99 degrees in the house. But I survived without losing it and the aforementioned bleeding subsided within a couple of hours. But I do think the dentist could use a few more classes in bedside manner. It seemed like he was running some sort of conveyer line of patients needing their wisdom teeth taken out. And I swear his nurse is Miss Ratchet. She kept saying (almost yelling) “Wake UP!” And made us use a wheelchair to get to the car. Before the anesthesia was even worn off! Dentistry with that impersonal touch!

One of my customers today called me a “sweet-voiced, mealy-mouthed, corporate yes-man.” I wonder if I am supposed to take that as an insult or a compliment. He called to complain that one of our stores would not give him a cash refund for his shoes cuz he did’t have the receipt anymore. The store was nice enough to offer him a store credit or an exchange but not cash. This seemed reasonable to me. After all he didn’t have a receipt. I explained to him that this was store policy and there was nothing I could do. He went on and on about how we were the corporate bad guys only out to take advantage of him, the poor innocent consumer. He said we were trying to cheat him out of his $135.00. I sympathized with him and told him we could not give orders to the store or tell them to make exceptions to their policy, but that I could document the complaint and send the info to corporate headquarters. He went on with another 10 minute speech and then called me the aforementioned “yes-man.” He then concluded with the obligatory “I’ll never shop with you again.”

I dreamed I had moved to an apartment (which looked oddly like another apartment I’ve been to lately). In the dream I had fallen asleep on the sofa (which I had really done). There was a box of electrical cords and computer cables in the corner of the room. When I woke up in the dream all the cables and cords started walking towards me. When they got close to me, they started swirling around and trying to whip me. And there was some sort of weird little vacuum off to the side watching the whole thing. Maybe it was some sort of
warning that I need to organize all the cables laying around here.

Did anyone else watch World News Tonight with Peter Jennings?… In their 1st story, they were talking about “Weapons of Mass Destruction”. But, there was a backdrop behind Peter that read “Weapons of Mass Distruction”. I wonder if anyone bothered to do any spell checking before going on the air?
Just my little complaint for the evening…I’m better now.

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