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hook, line, and sinker
09/15/2006 = 06:31 PM

Quotation of the Week:

"I was in the liquor store (No! Really!) when I heard the song Brick from Ben Folds Five. And I thought to myself, 'Well, isn't that a nice welcome song, just for me!' Then I heard it start over again. That's when I realized that it was my cell phone ringing."

— Kitchen Logic

Kitchen Logic. Bringing sprayed Diet Coke to computer monitors around the world.

Runner Up:

"I think I saw it on the TLC Learning Channel."

— overheard in my office,
home of the Very Extremely Redundant
Redundancy Department of Redundancy,
Division of Repeating Things Division

If you have been paying attention, and even if you have not, I posted an entry about Kasora Tea the other day in a shameless coup for free swag. Said swag arrived in yesterday's mail, and included not only about half a dozen different tea samples and a little packet of empty brewing bags, but also a tin containing an assortment of their display teas.

They, like Adagio, base your free gift on your Google™ rating, so it's kind of nice to see I can still summon up decent swag even only posting once or twice a week.

In other excellent customer service news, CareOne rocked my world hardcore.

Recently, I burned the hell out of my right ring finger in a tragic accident involving cooking plus arthritis.

(Translation: lost grip on spatula, dropped spatula into pan of hot food and hot oil; food fuh-lipped onto back of hand. Yeeeowwwch.)

Anyway, I had been carefully covering the burn with hydrocolloid bandages, not only so it could breathe and heal better, but because they're really the only bandages where I'm not allergic to the adhesive.

I had them on hand in my medicine closet, and the box contained, not six useable bandages, but five useable ones and one that had been completely fucked up in packaging, and also had ball-point scribbles on it, which led me to believe it had marked for discard by their QA department, but still made it into distribution.

Anyway, I'd bought them a couple of months ago, so I no longer had the receipt to return them to the store, not to mention that, with three Stop & Shop stores between my home and work, I couldn't remember where I bought them.

So I sent the empty box and the damaged bandage (hey, that sort of rhymes) back to CareOne, explaining in my letter that I wasn't nearly as concerned about a refund as much as just wanting to let them know of the potential issue in their packaging sequence.

And I got back a very nice letter from their QA department, with five coupons for CareOne products and an additional promise that the box of bandages would be replaced for me as well.

Yay.

Oh, by the way, my finger is all better, thanks for asking.

Although I was, in a sort of creepy sense, rather hoping to be maimed for life and be able to sport a quool twisty fingernail like My Favorite Pancake. Alas.

I shall have to be consoled by the fact that the CareOne Nice Letter Division included a magnet in the envelope, so I can keep the coupons right on the fridge till I need them.

Do not eat the Dunkin Donuts Supreme Omelet sandwich without following it with a healthy antacid chaser. Delicious but debilitating. I feel like I just ate an anvil. On a croissant.

Tags: Kitchen Logic, Kasora Tea, CareOne, Dunkin Donuts

drinking: tea
listening to: The Rolling Stones, Sympathy for the Devil
if this ship wrecks: i'm going right to the bottom. i ate what was essentially an anchor filled with peppers and scallions