Ah... cracker barrell restaurants...

This Friday i had the distinct pleasure of ordering takeout from a cracker barrell restaurant... For those that may not be familiar w/ these chain of restaurants they have predominantly in the south, they specialize in "down home" southern type cooking etc..  and overall have that kind of feel etc.   I didnt really feel like waiting and eating by myself so I decided to order the food from the host and take it back to my hotel room.

This is how my convo went (i'm not making this up):

Me: I'd like to get the grilled chicken to go.. do you know how long that will take? 

host:  Would you like that grilled?

me: grilled.... how long will that take?

host: I dont know 

******host then walks away and comes back 3 min later********

me: so.... do you know how long that will take?

host: huh?

me: the order i just placed... do you know how long that will take?

host: huh? .... uh..... uh.... `15 minutes or something...

me: ok thanks...

(as I'm standing there waiting the other host asks me if i want to be seated..)

me: no i'm waiting on my food..

host: Do you want to place an order?

AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!  

As i spent the next 15-20 minutes I observed the following things from cracker barrell... 

Hello blogaroos...

press 1 to read the kj blog

press 2 to comment on the kj blog

press 3 to skim the kj blog

press 4 to speak to a customer service rep...

What if i did that to yall?  NO!  I have too much love for my peoples... however I am convinced that corporate America does not have the same care or intelligence to do the same thing!   I had the wonderful pleasure of calling apple on my ipod that has developed a minor glitch in the screen... basically it has little pixelated and it looks like a digital fingerprint inside the display...  ANYHOO... 

I've been down this road a million times on stuff like this and all I wanted to do was check and see if my apple care was still active on my ipod (which I thought it was but just wanted to dbl check before I drove an hr to the apple store to get it swapped out).  After going through the joy of seventeen button pushes to get a real live human being on the phone the conversation went as follows..

him: "Is the ipod damaged sir?"

me: "No it's just a digital glitch inside the screen.. I just want to see if it's still under apple care"

him: "yes but is the ipod damaged sir?"

me: "no it's not damaged .. there is no damage to it.. is my account still under apple care?"

him: ....LONG PAUSE..... "is the ipod damaged sir?"

me: "NO!!! Can u please let me just know if it's under apple care?  Im bringing it in to the store..."

him: ....hmmmmm....  "the ipod isnt registered under your name.. I'll register it for you... is it damaged?"

me: "AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHGGGGHHHHGGHGHGHG"

Am i alone in this problem?   Ah well.. here is my observizzles on all things call center related: 

Hello all residents of blogville..    

I apparently have digressed in my handwriting to the point where even I can't read it... uhh... let me first backtrack.  I found myself taking a test last week for reinstatement of my minsterial credentials and there was a part where I had to handwrite out my testimony and call to ministry.  It was only a few paragraphs but nonetheless I had to handwrite it out...  keep in mind I dont' handwrite much more these days then my subway order...

But as i sitting there trying to struggle out 2 paragraphs that were even semi-legible I realized that since I'm always typing/texting/ everything I seem to have lost the ability to even write any length of anything even semi-readable.  I HAVE LOST ALL ABILITY TO HANDWRITE DUE TO TECHNOLOGY!   Even when i do handwrite something I find myself writing in the ways that I type... using:

LOL,  BTW, @ , IMO, W/, and things of that nature...

What are we gonna do if we ever lose electricity and have to go back to paper and pencil?  Will we be all reduced to going "What the heck does that spell?" I found myself pressing the pen so hard that my hand hurt!  It was only 2 paragraphs and I felt like i had ran 10 miles on my fingers!  Oh well... thank God for spell check...

Lets do this: 

Hello all you out in tv land...

You're boy tweezy is now on a mission..  a mission to put you on 52 television.  I finally poneyed up and upgraded my cellphone to a better camerphone (3.0 megapixel's look out) and subsequently have found out about the joys of youtube and cellies.  Basically the new thing I'm doing is uploading short 30 sec videos of my life (and longer ones as things progress) to my new youtube channel...

www.youtube.com/52television

If you ever wanted to see what it's like on the road w/ tweezy... or just living out my day to day life.... or if you ever wanted to be a superstar...  here is your chance!  You can bring a poster out, a t-shirt... or just bring me some starbucks or redbull and I will put you on 52 television!  Do something to touch my heart and I will make you a star (or at least 29 secs of one) and will upload it immediatly to my youtube page.  I've already put some up from the last weekend... so go and subscribe and/or come out to a show and HOLLA @ YA BOY.

WIth that being said here is my weekly observations in all things cellphone related...