Last year, I had an Issue with AOL. They Outsource To India, too. Now, I hear The Country Of India is Very Nice. I would Visit, but I Am Allergic To Some Of The Spices that they use in their Food and fear Starving To Death While On Vacation. But, I dealt with Exactly The Same Frustrations as you — Repeating My Name And My Problem over and over without ever getting An Actual Solution. I never could get The Same Person Twice, either. I think Outsourcing Sucks and why any company would even Consider it — in lieu of Highly Trained And Knowledgable Customer Service Agents, I don’t understand.

Would you beleive I have never been to the Hollywood Farmer’s Market? Have you ever been to the one in walking distance to us that they have on Mondays? i work from Home that day and I think I may check it out. Instead of doing any Actual Work while At Home, you see.

Randi, there’s a Famer’s Market within walking distance of us? Where? And let me know if you ever want to go to the Hollywood one with me. I go most Sundays, unless I have my Little.

Isn’t there a Farmer’s Market in that park off of Fountain? Mondays, 9am-12 noon? Right? I have seen the signs, but I am usually at Home still in my pajamas and working during those hours. Maybe tomorrow I will take a walk down there and check it out. Also, I know I have a friend who loves the Farmer’s Market on Larchmont. Do you know about that one? It is on Sundays, too.

You NYers are so silly. That’s not walking distance.

Never been to the Larchmont one. I like the Hollywood one because I can park in the Bed Bath and Beyond structure and spend money there after the market.

OY Hil, I really hope this next bout of antibiotics does the job!

And for the record, I hear the Farmers market near Bed Bath and Beyond is great and I keep forgetting to go. Thanks for reminding me it’s on Sundays

It’s not really the start of the weekend until you see a guy wearing underwear and a towel.

All the customer service sucks these days. Truly sucks. Every single transaction requires like five billion reiterations of name, account number, problem, blah blah. And they swear they record things for “quality assurance”, but then where is the quality, I ask??

Whenever I hear the promise of “quality assurance,” I picture Homer Simpson dozing or eating doughnuts while listening to miles and miles of taped conversations from 1997. And what does this have to do with Hilary? Reference to baked goods, of course.

omg. i had the same problem with dlink. it took me two days of calling dlink in india and earthlink (my isp) in india. finally it works. Im afraid to ever ever move.

You must be sooooo sick of being sick. Buttermilk cupcakes? Yum. Buttermilk ANYTHING. Yum. Printing out the recipe now.

Feel better soon.

I’m about to make everyone’s day:

get human

Marissa, is there one for “get human in the US who speaks English?”

now you’re just talking crazy.

I’m going to go out on a limb and say the cust. serv. Indians are obssessed with first and last names, they put such an importance on it I wonder if it isn’t used for currency. I mean seriously, wtf?! And why don’t phones work well there? The echoing is out. Of. Control.

I had such an awful experience with Dell in India that when went to buy a new laptop last week I refused to even look at a Dell. Fuck them if they can’t staff an office here - I can’t deal with India. I even went so far as to buy a Geek Squad package. The Geek Squad guys are the nicest!!

I miss El Cholo. Also, the Larchmont Farmer’s Market is really great. I saw Weird Al there with his weird wife and weird baby. Also, very good peaches.