Death to Smoochy

Currently, I'm on hold with a lady who called for a pick-up later today. She asks if we service the John Wayne Airport and I say we do. I ask when it's for and she says it's for today so I ask what time. She's looks through her papers. Can't find it. She looks some more. Still no dice. She's looking for about three minutes, which in on-hold-on-the-phone-time is very long. I hate when people aren't prepared for things they know they need to have ready. For example, people in line ordering something or having something rung up and at the very last minute when they are told the total, they start looking for their wallets or checkbook or whatever they have to make a payment with. Some don't even look for it then. They tell you what they want and then you tell them the total and then they keep looking around at something they may want, additionaly. Which is fine. Except when I'm in a line, I know the cashier wants nothing more than to move the line and the people in the line want nothing more than said cashier to move it.

So I try my best to be as efficient as possible. So I get prepared ahead of time. Looking at what I want and pulling my wallet out. Checking if I have cash and if not, looking around to see if they take other forms of payments that I may have, which makes total sense to do now since you don't want to wait in line all this time and place an order, only to find out they don't accept cards or checks, because a lot of people do do that and when you tell them you don't accept this or that they look at you like they're expecting you to say you're joking or something. Then when they find out you're not, they say something like, "Well you should accept cards. Every where else does." Also, if it's a place I've never been to before, especially if there's a line, I like to observe the ordering process and listen to what and how others are ordering so I don't spend 10 minutes in line and move up and ask, "So what do you guys serve here?" That seems kind of an unreasonable situation to wait in line for 10 or more minutes and get up there and not know what the line was for, but it does happen. Let me assure you of that.

I watched this movie called "Death to Smoochy" last night. Pretty good movie, except the fact that I found some flaws. I won't get into all of them, but one of them was in the end credits. Ed Norton, Robin Williams, and Catherine Keener were ice skating. That's not the messed up part. The messed up part was they started flying around. Flying around on ice skates! That was so fake.