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April 26, 2007
The Hardest Working Woman on the Internet
You may recall that I broke the LCD in my camera the other day. That incident came on the heels of losing my phone and washing my billfold.
It was certainly a big week.
Based on prior experience I doubted it would be worth my time to try to have the camera fixed. A couple of years ago one of our cameras at work broke and when I called about having it fixed I was told the cost would be $197.00 or I could buy a newer camera, with a better warranty, for $204.00. I was a little ticked that the camera had gone south just after the warranty expired and opted to buy a new camera from a different manufacturer.
With that in mind I decided I'd try to fix the LCD on the current camera myself and started looking around the Internet for parts. While I never found what I wanted, one of the first sites I went to featured a brunette looking over her shoulder at me with a promise that I could talk to her live with just a mouse click. Which, I think you'll agree, is almost as good as getting to talk to a naked girl for a dollar (as a sign once promised on a trip to Philly just over 20-something years ago.)
But wait! The dark-haired girl looked familiar. She'd promised to talk to me before someplace else.
I started looking around.
This girl was everywhere. I like to think her name is Jamie Brown, that she wears Hot Pants (OWWW!!! too hot!) to work and that she's got a brand new bag. Mostly, I like to think that if I click her link (oh man, when was the last time I had my link clicked? …) I'd be taken to someone who was not reading from a script, who could actually answer my questions, who spoke a language similar to the one I speak with a accent that was either similar to mine or at least kind of sexy.
That's an idea. If the folks at tech support can't fix your problem, maybe they could at least talk dirty to you. "While your computer's rebooting," the female tech might purr, in some hard to make out accent, "let me ask you, what are you wearing?" You'd answer and she'd continue, "Oooh. A pocket protector … that makes me so … was that the Windows startup sound I heard? Okay, login and …)
Honestly, the Jamie Brown discovery was a lot cooler when I found her at the site I visited while looking for camera parts. I knew I'd seen her someplace before and there she was again and I'd hoped to make a game of figuring out where I'd seen her first. After less than two minutes of "research" I'd found her in half-a-dozen places.
The button she graces takes a person to a call center that answers phones for a lot of different companies.
Five minutes after starting the LCD-screen search I was on eBay. This afternoon a broken camera arrived. Less than an hour later I had a working Nikon with a good LCD in it.
[Up above, it took me three tries to type, "oh man, when was the last time I had my link clicked?" My fingers wouldn't cooperate with what was banging around in my head and I typed "oh man, when was the last time I had my clink licked?" And when I corrected it I made the same typing mistake twice more before getting it right.
Which is kind of hard to understand. I don't even have a clink.]
Posted by delmer at April 26, 2007 10:17 PM
Comments
I hope she's being paid well for working so many jobs. Imagine running into her at a bar and wondering where you'd seen her before.
Posted by: Michael at April 29, 2007 7:13 AM
Not long ago a guy came toward me and I went into overdrive trying to figure out how I knew him. Scouts? School? Church? Kids sports?
As he got closer he gave me a nod. As he passed I realized he was one of the anchors for the local news.
Posted by: delmer at April 29, 2007 10:56 PM