And “Our menu has recently changed….” Really? every menu has always “recently changed”???
When the Lovely & Charming Mrs. Cowboy worked in and then managed a call center for an air freight company, discipline would ensue if a phone wasn’t answered – by a human – by the 3rd ring.
If they cared about your call, they’d staff at levels to match the call volume. But they don’t; they want you to shut up and go away. Same reason the hold “music” is so awful, with such bad sound quality.
One of the many women in Poe’s life who died of consumption. I have posited that watching people he loved die from lack of breath was behind his several stories about being shut into walls, etc., where one would suffocate.
Right on, Arlo! Ours are in the mountains in CO, in the mountains in CA, and a 5-minute walk from the mountains in AK; we often talk of moving to the first 2 (and I talk of moving the the 3rd; their mother, however, complains about IL winters, so…….).
KS? Yeah, don’t think we’d be talking so much. And not just because they’d be a one-day drive there.
I have told Her to leave me in the woods for the critters, but She declines to honor that wish.