With all of the customer service issues over the weekend, Mantra decided to get in on the game as well. She is such a cheeky wench.
She took to the eternal waiting in a way we normally associate with waiting for the perfect Mate…as we all know conceptually perfect Mate is a fallacy. What results is Whirligig.
Even if the macabre is not your cup of tea, this will resonate with you if you have ever spent so much as one minute on hold or time waiting in excess of one second for anything to load on your computer, be it software or Internet.
Whirligig
There is a skeleton in my office chair.
To its left hand, a vente latte,
To its right, a modem and mouse.
The skeleton sits. Its blank eyes stare.
What it would utter, no one can say.
With what’s on the screen, it’d likely grouse.
A blue whirligig spins aimlessly,
Chasing its tail, but searching for…what?
The moden blinks the wink of mischief.
A smart phone rings, its tone all tinny.
The face reads “Customer Service Bot”.
Did the skeleton just say, “As if!”?
A spider crawls where there once was hair,
Spinning an epitaph just to say:
“Died waiting for signal in the house”
160920120122
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I hope you got a kick out of this one. It was time for some lightheartedness. What epitaph would you write for your computer?
Cat Forsley
/ September 17, 2012Hey Red xxx
I GOT YOUR BOOK TODAY 🙂
THANK YOU XO
STARTING IT TONIGHT XXX
CAN’T WAIT XXX
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Red
/ September 17, 2012I am so glad I did not have to come up there and hunt your mailman. He thinks YOU are scary???? xxx
Cat Forsley
/ September 18, 2012I BEGGED FOR HIS FORGIVENESS ,,,LOL
And offered him some squeeze cheese 🙂 lololol
xxxxxx
HEY SOMA IS BACK XOXOXOXOXOOXOXOXOOXOXOXOOXOXOXOXOOXOXOOXOXOXOXOXOOX
🙂 XX CAT
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Red
/ September 18, 2012I know. I need to go by her place. I am so behind after my vaca!! xxx I am so glad it got there <3
Cat Forsley
/ September 18, 2012IT’S GREAT XXX 🙂 LOVE IT XOXOXOXOXOXO
NO MORE SQUEEZE CHEESE
THE MAILMAN GOT IT AS A THANK YOU FOR DELIVERING YOUR BOOK = GIFT 🙂
XXX
YES SOMA WROTE OF FROGS TODAY
I MELTED A BIT
SO LOVELY XO
NIGHTY NIGHT XO
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prenin
/ September 17, 2012Boy do I know the feeling!!! 🙂
Love and hugs!
Prenin.
raymond alexander kukkee
/ September 17, 2012Cute and funny–and oh, so true Red! Sitting here in the corner office watching ghosts eat shadows, I can’t help but think of something else, I’m waiting, and waiting, and waiting… for you to address it…the whirlygiggle……do tell. “:))
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Red
/ September 17, 2012As long as it has nothing to do with the SIB, I am all for addressing. Another trip to the post to mail out books.
Valentine Logar
/ September 17, 2012How much we relate to the Whirligig….do we have an actual name for it? Start with a letter at the end of the alphabet by chance.
Make me wanna holla throw up both my hands
(that is a song by the way)
Love this one, it is just sorta twisted the way I like them.
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Red
/ September 17, 2012Too many reading of Octavius Grimwood’s Graveyard Guide.
Binky
/ September 17, 2012Death by Windows.
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Red
/ September 17, 2012Exactly. And not falling from one.
lizziecracked
/ September 17, 2012Oh! I have the perfect picture – its over on my blog I am ..hahaha wating for the page to load so I can get the link.. isn’t THAT ironic? I am a patient person about waiting – lines no biggie, unless I gotta pee..waiting for a ride or other people I have plans with – no biggie. maybe because I am always late.
But waiting for the stupid computer or anything related? I wonder if that’s how I got crazy… on top of everything else.. annnndd oh look it loaded…. http://runningnakedwithscissors.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/wpid-img_8471.jpg It’s as if it was meant to go together 🙂
Oh! and I love Mantra in Red…Hot little sprite 🙂 Lotsa Love
Lizzie
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Red
/ September 18, 2012Awesome. You would know irony would follow. <3 I can wait for hours for things I really want. More than 0.25 seconds at the screen...eternity. Muah! xxx
Mysterycoach
/ September 18, 2012I was thinking about glitches yesterday during a conversation on G+ how we miss some comments due to waiting for the system to update and an argument almost happened because of it.
I remember, years ‘n’ years ago when I had my first computer. Someone gave it to me, so it was approximately 12 years ago. I had “dial up” … I remember developing coping skills … (ha ha ha! ) like getting up, getting a cup of coffee, going to the bathroom while I waited for something to download or load period.
(Looks away wistfully, grinning)
Isn’t it something how technology screws with your brain? LOL! Ha!
Sue
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Androgoth
/ September 18, 2012Hey will you be careful how you write your comments down, I got to the part where it says… “I remember, years ‘n’ years ago when I had my first computer. Someone gave it to me” and almost fell off my lid…
Okay we know what you meant but do give us mere Vampys a warning in future or else? lmao
Androgoth XXx
Red
/ September 18, 2012ROFL! You have been hanging out with the boners…you know…the skeletons. L.M.A.O.
Red
/ September 18, 2012Makes us believe in our old age our brains are getting faster. Right? *grins*
Mysterycoach
/ September 19, 2012I think my brains have remained the same, technology keeps making me “think more” and I was happy before. 🙂 LOL!
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Noeleen
/ September 18, 2012Hmmm, my epitaph would say:
Here lies MAC
who now does JACK.
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Red
/ September 18, 2012Hahahaha!
MJ Logan
/ September 18, 2012Nice.
MJ
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Red
/ September 18, 2012*curtsies sweetly*
Tess Kann
/ September 18, 2012Whirligig. Perfect! Each time I must wait for my computer to load up, I wonder why it’s taking so long. Waiting for service support while listening to MUZAK makes me feel O.L.D. (cause I’m aging as I wait–a waste of MY valuable time).
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Red
/ September 18, 2012When people on the tele ask me what I am doing, I frequently answer, “Growing old in front of the screen.” (Substituted liberally with, “Growing old waiting on (Facebook, WP, Google, Verizon, …).”)