OMZ!1 I can't believe I used "kardashian" in a sentence, like an actual communication tool!1 [View all]

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There was this one time in a phone call with tech support... (today)

I vented -- O.K., *instigated* -- a preemptive complaint about previous tech support exchanges with me regarding obstacles to communication.

As soon as the dude answered, oh so pleasantly, I griped that I had had two previous problems with the same software problem, had taken the chance for a one-time incident payment instead of a couple of hundred bucks for a year's warranty, that I wanted some sounds during pauses like uh-huhs so I'd know they were still on the line, and most of all I wanted their instructions *said* and then followed by word spellings ("N" as November, "S" as in Sam, "T" as in Tango, etc.)

So the dude was extremely patient with me despite my provocations, and he went through the "Tango" stuff all the way. But then there was a place where I could understand neither the letter nor the word-sound-thing. And he had to cycle through a couple of different words to approximate the letter, which turned out to be "K".

I said, disgusting even myself, "Oh!1 'K' as in 'kardashian'?!1" And the poor patient fellow had to laugh!1 I am really, really disgusted with myself.