It has been a difficult few days, full of first world problems.
The voice of Ohms. The manager of the path of the beam. The
audio of the GPS quit the other day.
Okay I was programing the route, and in a voice that was
loud enough to be heard in a tunnel over the din of a semi on either side of
me, came. “THE ROUTE IS BEING CALCLATED” It was so loud that people in boom
cars stopped to hear what was next. What was next was me telling Ohms to use
her inside voice.
Ohms has no inside voice and retaliated by shutting down the
voice of the path of the beam.
It took me a day or two to notice, that there were no audio
directions, but then I wondered what
happened. I hadn’t turned it off. I started going through the tv screen menus
at 60 mph, pressing buttons, adjusting volumes. Nothing I was doing was
restoring “The Voice”
In total desperation I phoned the nearest motor company
outpost, and speaking to the service department, the fellow said they could
probably look at it tomorrow, but I would need to call back tomorrow and speak
to the people that work their tomorrow, as the fellow I was talking to today
had no idea what was happening there tomorrow.
Its service like this that makes the motor company great.
I figured that the motor company service was yesterday, and
I could probably fix it myself if I wasn’t trying to do it at 60 mph.
It was going to be major city traffic to get to the tulips
of Mount Vernon so after programing the route I went through every screen, and finally
found a unchecked box that said, “GPS AUDIO”, and Walla the voice was back. How
the box got unchecked no one knows, but I can find it again now, maybe.
My other bout with technology was when I booked my room in
Mount Vernon. I used one of them hotel apps, and about halfway there I realized
that I did not select the correct dates.
I figured I would just go to the hotel and see what could be done.
Entering the hotel there was a big sign “Masks Required”
There were two women at the front desk when I walked in the door. One wearing a mask, and one without.
The one without was clearly the one in charge and knew just
what to do. She is also a graduate of the Tammy Fay Baker school of eye makeup,
and she definitely graduated at the top of her class. Her eyes literally looked
like she had applied a caterpillar that was dipped in bunker oil and then
sprinkled with glitter.
Are Tammy eyes a thing? Or has Jim been here?
She said I had to
call the app people, but got right through to a human, who knew just what to
do, and fixed the dates. She also sounded just like some other agent I have had
to call recently. They both sounded like they were breathing helium. Is this a
thing? Customer service people forced to breath helium, so they can be harder
to understand.
Another mystery
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