Notso Bright

Well, I am just not feeling so smart today. Last night's phone conversation with the cable company.

Me: "Hello. Yes, what I'm calling about is my Internet seems to be slow. I don't know if it's because it's cyber Monday or what and I'm calling to see if it's from your end or my end."
Nice Lady: "Did you check to see if your firewalls are set too high."
Me: "Firewalls? What? Wait a minute. M! Did we change our firewall settings?"
M, from other room: "No."
Me: "We haven't changed our firewall settings since last night and it was running fine last night. And today I checked the memory of the computer, ran a scan, unplugged everything, called and got a reset from you and I just can't figure it out."
Nice Lady: "Let me check."

All is quite.

Nice Lady: "Do you have a router?"
Me: "A router. No, but we do have a wireless modem."

DUH!

Nice Lady: "Um. That is a router."

DUH!

Me: "Oh. ok." Fantastic I'm so glad I have that major in computer science. DUH!
Nice Lady: "Could you reset your router?"
Me: "I did that earlier."

Nice Lady: "Could you do it for ME?"
Holy crap, i would hate putting up with people like me.
Me: "Ok." big sigh.

M: "Hey, my laptop is running much faster now."
Me: "Ok. That was it. Thank you."
Nice Lady: "Can I help you with anything else?"
Me: "No. That gets it."
Nice Lady: "Well, thank you for doing business with comcast..."
click.

It's horrid being notso bright.
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On a lighter note, I got my "Christmas gift" from M last night.

He came in last night with a big package. Big Kid and Little Bit come following him in the room all excited.

M says, "Here's your Christmas gift."

These thoughts run through my head:
Wow. We just had a conversation that morning about not getting any presents for each other and here he is with a nice size box. Oh, the box says, "Kohler."

I say out loud, "a new faucet?"

My thoughts are running wild now:
A new faucet? Oh, could he be thinking of redoing the bathroom. I didn't think we had enough money to redo anything right now. But here it is a faucet. Or MAYBE the kitchen. He's had all these pictures of kitchens this fall that he has sent me and printed out. Oh, my...

Big Kid with a huge smile: "I know what it is. It's got a picture on the side here." Big Kid covers it up with his hand. I push his hand away.

It's A...
toilet seat?

Really? A toilet seat. hmm...my thoughts are still upbeat and positive.
maybe it's a bathroom redo. or maybe...

Me: "Is this for the kid's bathroom? Because that is a good idea, something is wrong with their seat."
M: "No, it's for our bathroom. Look at this."

He pulls it out of the package and lifts the lid.

Me: "What?"
M: "Look when you put the lid down, it closes slowly and quietly."
Me, not so thrilled now, "So, what your saying is I'm too loud at night when I go to the bathroom."
M: "Not anymore."

Merry Christmas to me.