Internet Tussle
Today, an alert customer called to remind me that this Thursday is National Chocolate Pecan Pie Day. And despite my best intentions, I never remember this sort of stuff and I’m always thankful for the reminders. I immediately posted a lovely picture of a slice of Chocolate Bourbon Pecan pie to Facebook and in response, someone posted: “I don’t care.”
That’s a 2020 mood, for sure.
Before I deleted her comment, I clicked on her profile to see what she DID care about, but it was basically all Internet memes of things I don’t care about, so I guess we are even. And I just started to type here that I’ve come so far because this sort of thing would have slayed me not so long ago and my feelings would have been hurt for days, but then here we are talking about it on the Internet, so…
(In my defense, I’m pretty much over it. A few weeks ago, a guy commented on one of our sponsored Facebook ads that we are “overrated terribly!” and I’m going to hold on to that one for a hot minute. To start with, he’s wrong. And also, I wanted to respond to the comment and suggest that “terribly overrated!” would likely be better grammar, but I tend to shy away from an Internet tussle. Or any tussle, actually.)
So here’s five good things to weigh out the underbelly of the online world:
Someone left us positive Square feedback this week that we are a mood lifter to the community during the pandemic. THANK YOU. I’ll hold on to that one even longer than I’ll hold on to poor grammar guy’s comment.
Whomever made my coffee this morning at Starbucks was SPOT ON. Do you ever just look at it and know it will be perfect by the color?
Every morning there is a group of older gentlemen that sit in camping chairs on the sidewalk by Big Lots and drink their coffee and chat. They sit six feet apart in a circle and they are always having the best time when I roll by around 7:20. And it is sort of reassuring to me that they probably came with that idea during shelter-in-place and now it is just their thing.
We received a shipment of fall merchandise this afternoon and I had completely forgotten that we ordered some stuff for our houses. Jeanne ordered a throw pillow that says “Does This Pillow Smell Like Chloroform To You?” for when it comes time to decorate for Halloween. Every time she sees it, she basically laughs herself into an asthma attack. I think she should just leave it out all year.
And finally, I saw a retro style typewriter keyboard that can attach to my computer and allow me to type with all the noise and righteous indignation that came with using an old school typewriter. Behind-The-Scenes Jason surprised me and ordered it six weeks ago. It arrived today (after a long shipping container ride from China) and after dousing the box with Lysol, he went to work installing it for me. Except I need a special adapter (which thankfully comes from Amazon in 1-3 business days). I can’t even wait to type with all the clatter of 30 years ago, minus all the White Out.
