Tying Up Loose Ends
Do you ever get the feeling that you’ve forgotten something? Or when facing the prospect of being away for so long that you are GOING to forget something? I’ve had that feeling, pretty heavily, for the last few days now.
I went through all of our outstanding paperwork today to make sure that we were on top of things before heading our of the country for so long; bills, invoices, receipts, bills, statements, bills and all that sort of stuff.
Knowing that you’re not going to have open mail for the next six months is somewhat exciting to be honest. Faced with the reality of not preparing for something unforeseen though turns that excitement in to “what if I’ve forgotten something?”. Will I still have a credit rating when I get back? Will we able to buy a new house, will I still have a P.O.Box, will my pay TV and mobile phone operators still sell me their services? Am I going to leave the iron on because of everything else I have to worry about?
So a good 6 or so hours later I emerge from having spoken with the recorded message services of every major corporation in this country hoping that my fears have been allayed and that everything I set out to do has been done. I guess we’ll wait and see........
Side note:
Speaking of large corporations, why do all of their phone answering services sound the same? Seriously, when you speak to as many of them in one day as I have today you realise that they are all the same. This lead me down the path of I can’t count how many conspiracy theories but boy, after a while you do begin to wonder.
Most notable quote of the day:
Following the all too familiar “Your call is important to us” line came this doozy from a phone company today. “Your call will be answered in less than.......20 minutes” The dots signify the pre-recorded message pausing to allow a second pre-recorded message to fill in the gap. 20 minutes huh? Perhaps my call was only “kind-of” important today or maybe “somewhat” important. They should just replace it with “Your call (isn’t very) important to us (at all) and be done with it. I’d rather in your face honesty than ironic niceties.
