Last Thursday there was this nasty ice storm in New England that created havoc for me.

Monday there was no milk at the supermarket I usually shop at. I had to make trips to three different grocery stores within an entire one mile radius. That is at least three or four minutes out of my way.

Then Tuesday I went to the three different Dunkin Donuts by my house before I was able to find one with donuts.

To top that all off I couldn’t blog all weekend. I even tried to reason with the people able to address my extremely important issues on Friday but they were little help.

[Calls landlord]

Me: “Yes, when will the power be back on?”
Landlord: “Not sure, like one to three, maybe several days.”
Me: “Let me talk to your supervisor.”
Landlord: “Chris, I’m the landlord. I am the supervisor.”
Me: “Fine. What’s the number of the electric company?”
Rep: “Good afternoon sir. My name is Shirley and how may I help you today?”
Me: “Yes, this is Chris Cameron and I’d like to know when my power will be back on.”
Customer Service Rep: “Several days sir.”
Me: “Again with the several days claim. Do you know who I am?”
Rep: “No sir, I don’t.”
Me: “I’m a significant humor blogger who provides a modicum of laughter and hope into hundreds of lives every day. I’m like kind of a big deal online.”
Rep: “That’s great and all sir but we have outages in hundreds of thousands of homes, many with children and animals. Those areas need to be taken care of first.”
Me: “You had to use the children card didn’t you?”
Rep: “Excuse me?”
Me: “You politicians use the children excuse to make people like me feel guilty.”
Rep: “Sir, I’m not a politician. I’m a customer service rep for the power company.”
Me: “Don’t play coy with me. I’m wise to how you people operate.”
Rep: “Sir I really have to go, I have a lot of other callers that need my assistance.”
Me: “You should just transfer them to me and I can tell them how disappointed they will be.”
Rep: “What?”
Me: “Good day!”
Rep: “Umm okay sir…”
Me: “I said good day!”

Let me tell you, when I get my new country up and running crap like this will not happen. I won’t run out of donuts or make people have to go to more then one store to find milk. Children will never be used as a guilt trip to prevent humor bloggers from being able to do what they love.

Who’s with me?
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