Pensitivity’s Three Things Challenge — shudder- stutter- splutter

Random rant 1#101

Has it really been that long since my last rant???

It was 25th September, according to my posts…yikes. Where the heck did that time go?

Anyway, I’ve got a few things to jaw about today.

It’s not a common occurrence for me to laugh with someone at customer service when I call a call centre. Who does? We ring up in a far-from-convivial mood, wanting something fixed. And at the point when we ring, we’re usually at the end of our string.

So, the other day, I rang my bank about an ambiguous generic letter they had sent to all customers.

I needed clarification. I was on my quick break at work and was trying to sort it out quickly.

Being in a patchy Wi-Fi area wasn’t helping. It was a hot day, and it was only going to get hotter, so why get heated with the lady on the end of the phone?

“Sorry, I didn’t catch that… you’re breaking up…a bit of a splutter… I’m in a dead zone”

“A w-what?”

“A dead zone. I don’t mean zombies are wandering about..although there could be, but I can’t see any.”

“Hahaha!”

“With Halloween around the corner, anything is possible…”

“For sure! Makes me shudder! Hahaha!”

I continued by saying that someone had written the letter poorly, and it was confusing. She said they had received lots of calls of that tune.

I said they need to get their letters edited; I’d have rewritten them completely. It was a fun, convivial conversation, and not at all what I was expecting. No zombies were present, which was a better scenario. I always have my snakebite kit on me, but I don’t have an action plan for zombies… or vampires, for that matter.

The other rant is about our cat.

Indy is our big, black and absolutely beautiful furbaby. (Black cats can also be a spooky thing at this time of year…) I have my spot on the couch with the leg rest up…of which Indy takes half of. That entirely depends on where she wants to plonk herself. She might dramatically drape herself across my leg. But until last night, I had sat on half of the seat, Indy taking the other half.

She was still outside when I was watching Tipping Point …the Aussie contestants never know the right answers to NZ questions! I eye-roll out loud when they don’t know the answers.🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️

So I had my seat on the couch to myself.

The other half of my seat felt like a new couch! There wasn’t a ‘derriere indent’. So I enjoyed this moment, claiming the space.

Indy sauntered in, eyeing me on the couch.

Don’t get comfy, mum, I’ll be back…

On that note, have a lovely Saturday morning or night. We need rain here on the Southern Downs. Spring lasted a week…we’re doing summer temperatures now.

My grapevine is crazy with growth in just a month since that photo I took of dewy droplets on the newly popped leaf buds. The bird netting will come out, and the ‘battle of the vine’ will begin. Ahhh, happy days. Me versus the rainbow lorikeets. And each year their squawky vocabulary grows with birdy swear words when they are shut out from my grapes. I let them have the ones that are ‘seconds’ when I have picked the best ones. They don’t like that at all, but bad luck, birdies!

Happy trails…68 days to Christmas…