success in three
May. 8th, 2020 12:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisNormally, I wait until the other choice is root canal before I call an 800 number - or, really, any number. My hatred of talking on the phone gets worse all the time.
But, I had two questions that I could not find answers for online and wanted to know right now so I called the Discover 800 number and steeled myself for a many branched tree and a long wait.
It started ringing, I took a big bite out of my salad and clicked on a website and then heard 'This is Kim at Discover in Arizona, how can I help you today?' WTF???? I had a mouthful of food left to chew! I garbled an apology. She answered both my questions - no muss, no fuss, and I was done before time for the next bite.
Holy crap.
Then, I went to the Social Security website to change the bank on my direct deposit and it wouldn't let me. It said I had to call. Oh Fuck. This is payback for the Discover call. So I called. There was a good 5 minutes of Covid-19 disclaimers and instructions on what to do if you didn't get your relief check. And then it wanted me to tell it what I wanted. The website had said to say 'help desk' so I did. It told me the wait was 2 minutes. It was wrong. The woman answered immediately.
She was fun and nice and efficient and fixed me up right away.
What is this world coming to???
And then I finished lunch which was my 3rd win of the day. Yesterday I had some left over spam and somehow got macaroni salad in my head. But, I only had penne pasta so I cooked it up and cut in in half - like macaroni without the elbow. Spam, cucumber, spring onion, grapes - mayo and sour cream. It was good yesterday but today it was amazing!!
Now I'm going to watch a silly movie and then talk to my brother and his sons on Zoom at 4:30. Nice Day-Before-it-Gets-Africa-Hot here.
But, I had two questions that I could not find answers for online and wanted to know right now so I called the Discover 800 number and steeled myself for a many branched tree and a long wait.
It started ringing, I took a big bite out of my salad and clicked on a website and then heard 'This is Kim at Discover in Arizona, how can I help you today?' WTF???? I had a mouthful of food left to chew! I garbled an apology. She answered both my questions - no muss, no fuss, and I was done before time for the next bite.
Holy crap.
Then, I went to the Social Security website to change the bank on my direct deposit and it wouldn't let me. It said I had to call. Oh Fuck. This is payback for the Discover call. So I called. There was a good 5 minutes of Covid-19 disclaimers and instructions on what to do if you didn't get your relief check. And then it wanted me to tell it what I wanted. The website had said to say 'help desk' so I did. It told me the wait was 2 minutes. It was wrong. The woman answered immediately.
She was fun and nice and efficient and fixed me up right away.
What is this world coming to???
And then I finished lunch which was my 3rd win of the day. Yesterday I had some left over spam and somehow got macaroni salad in my head. But, I only had penne pasta so I cooked it up and cut in in half - like macaroni without the elbow. Spam, cucumber, spring onion, grapes - mayo and sour cream. It was good yesterday but today it was amazing!!
Now I'm going to watch a silly movie and then talk to my brother and his sons on Zoom at 4:30. Nice Day-Before-it-Gets-Africa-Hot here.
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Date: 2020-05-08 11:06 pm (UTC)Did you fry the Spam or something before you made the macaroni salad, or just chop it up? I have 2 cans of Spam and I've been looking for some place to use it up. I don't care for it plain and my husband decided he didn't want more after eating a couple cans....so maybe this is a way to get it gone.
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Date: 2020-05-08 11:07 pm (UTC)