Today's amusing* anecdotes

[aelfgyfu_mead]

* I hope they're amusing. The first one is a little dubious.

Last night at 7 pm, I lost teh Interwebs. Brilliant Husband checked his computer. Nothing. It didn't take us long to find out that we had no phone, no cable, no Internet, not a single luxury (yes, there was a competition to get that line out first, and BH won). BH called Verizon on his cell and went through half a zillion questions; he didn't wait on the line to get a live rep because we have pay-as-you-go phones, and he didn't think he had enough minutes! We have our mobiles for emergencies only.

When Verizon's rep called us back (surprisingly fast--a little under two hours), I suddenly thought to go tell BH that maybe the new neighbors had done something; I'd heard weird noises.

Sure enough, Cable Guy got here at 8 am today and found the end of the cable sticking out, cut. It wasn't in a conduit, and apparently it wasn't buried all that deeply.

New neighbors were just edging the lawn with a shovel, they explained. I did not pass on Cable Guy's warning that it's illegal to dig in Florida without calling first to check on utility locations. Great way to meet the neighbors, eh?

This is a funny story because it was not a gas line; Cable Guy assures me that those are four to six feet deep.

Obviously, FIOS has been restored, though it took until 11 am, and I was a wreck by then.



Anecdote 2:
We were watching some gymnastics we'd TiVo'd a few weeks back; there were seven teams, and two of them were the Tigers, plus one team had a mascot that apparently matched that in High School Musical. Small Child questioned this. Brilliant Husband explained that there's a limited pool of mascot names.

SC: Why don't they call the team "Broccoli"?
BH: The Fighting Broccoli?
SC: Yeah, and the Cheetahs.
Me (aside, to BH): This is going on the blog.
SC (whose hearing I envy): What? Nooo!!!
Me: It's okay! I won't name you.
SC: Okay! Say that Jamie said it.
Me: Jamie?
SC: Yeah, say that [SC's real name]'s friend Jamie said it.
Me: .... Okay, that's going on the blog too.
Note: I do not know any child named Jamie and am not sure if SC does; I was afraid to ask at that point.

Hey, snippets of dialogue are always funny when kalquessa does it!

Comments

[redbyrd-sgfic.livejournal.com]

I dunno, around our house, broccoli is one of those things that makes a grown man recoil in horror. And brussels sprouts, egad!

[aelfgyfu_mead]

Yes! And imagine the fun of being a mascot! Small Child liked broccoli for a bit; I can't remember if she does at the moment or not. These things change very fast.

I had lunch with my best friend in the department today, who was, to my great amusement, eating broccoli with quinoa.

[loriel-eris.livejournal.com]

Sympathy for the first and giggles for the second. *g*