quality children

[same_sky]

Have you ever been reading something and miss a line of text? So that what it actually is trying to say is not at all what you end up reading? That happened to me today, and what I ended up seeing struck my funny bone. "Acme has provided the world with a complete line of quality children," It gets even funnier if you continue on with the rest of the text, "...at affordable prices without sacrificing quality. Our Value line is warranted for 5 years. ... We provide these quality based warranties so that you can easily compare the price/value relationship between Acme and other competitive brands."

Don't you wish you had a warranty on your kid? So when they TP your neighbor's house, you can just exchange them for another one? And hey, what other brands are competing in the quality children market? I think there's a really funny Trojan joke here. You're funny; you make it up.

(The line that I missed goes like this "student and adult stationery products for over a century". It was on the back of my brand new scissors at ye olde work place. But that isn't funny at all.)

I feel like I have all sorts of clever things that I need to tell you, but they don't occur to me during convenient times. Right now, the only thing I can think of to say is that I just realized that, in a funny little coincidence, carrieb's cell phone number has the same first three digits as mine (area code being different, of course.) How weird is that? M is trying his best to ruin the excitement for me by offering up boring rationales but I am not letting him spoil my day. IT IS WEIRD, OKAY?

I have to work tomorrow, but Friday we're off to West Virginia. This week has been very tiring, but I've been fairly productive anyway. Somehow. Due to Monday being a holiday, I have to work 9.17 hours a day instead of the usual 8 or 8.75. That means that if I want to leave at 4:30, I would have to BE AT WORK at 6:50. I hit 7:15 yesterday and 7:00 today, but good grief, that's early. I am so bad at getting up in the morning, but by 4:30, I am so ready to leave that it's worth a little sacrifice. Still, I don't know if I could handle more than three days of it. Sheesh. Early.

Comments

[carrieb.livejournal.com]

I forgot to tell you that I have Verizon, so his Cingular theory doesn't hold water. I have a TN area code b/c we ordered the phone online, and I think that is strange.

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you for saying that! Not just for disproving his Cingular theory, but also because I used to live in Memphis, and our area code then was 901, so I knew that it was weird that yours was 901, and was therefore really confused as to why your phone had a TN area code.