086: the silver fox no more

All that California Livin' is getting to the Janner:
Diane and I went shopping for new glasses for her the other day.

I like shopping with my wife on pretty much all occasions except for one: when we go shopping for glasses.
What originally was, “can you take a long lunch today and help me pick out glasses?” Quickly became a half day off of work, 2 optical retailers, and 2.5 hours of my life that I will never get back.

I’m helpful, and make suggestions, but in the end Diane just ends up pissed that we can’t find the right frames, and I’m pissed because she has tried on every pair in the damn store. TWICE.

Diane repeats the mantra “We gotta get this right because I have to wear these glasses for the next two years…”
She doesn’t like my mantra “you can never go wrong with the sexy librarian look…”

On the way to our second Optical Retailer Diane had this exchange with our insurance company;

Insurance Company: Hello, you have reached your insurance company please feel free to use our automated system, please say your name..

Diane: “Diane V”

Insurance Company: How can I assist you? Billing? Locations? Pre-approval? Speak your selection

Diane: “locations…”

Insurance Company: I’m sorry I didn’t understand, can you please say your selection again?

Diane: “Locations please…”

Insurance Company: I’m sorry I didn’t understand, can you please say your selection again?

Diane one more time, : “ Locations”

Insurance Company: I’m sorry I didn’t understand, can you please say your selection again?

Diane, clearly frustrated; “ MOTHERFUCKER ARE YOU KIDDING ME !!!???”

Insurance Company: instantaneously, “ Good morning my name is Jill, thanks for calling your insurance company can I help you out?”
Amazing.
I wonder if the Insurance Companies Automated system is programmed to transfer immediately if someone Drops the F-bomb, or right to a top rep if some sister drops the MF Bomb….

Since it’s all snowy and I’m not really riding anyway, perhaps I’ll start a new mission of calling companies automated systems and cursing at them and see what happens….

The new Embrocation Magazine in coming out. I wrote an article for it a while ago. I loved racing against Dunn when he was out here. Great guy, We have completely opposite styles, which made racing in groups together extra fun. He called me world famous. Who knew?

Also, I’ve been working on this: Delaware Cycling Hall of Fame.
The best part of this is that so many folks have sent me great emails with stories about riders, folks in the DE Community. I was also honored to have a number of folks give me reasons why I should be on the list. Not sure I believe I really do, but as some else said, If you made the rules, you have to follow them. I’ve also had a number of folks say how much they enjoyed reading stuff from riders on the lists That I spammed to gather this info…

Then again I had someone tell me it’s the biggest circle jerk in the world too. I think there is a good point to had there too. With a couple of exceptions, we are all master’s racers, and hopefully we don’t take ourselves too seriously…

Maybe I’ll hold off on the new HOF tattoo?

I had a nice ride with tonight with Mark the Shark, CZ and Amy. A couple times CZ would come around me after I was on the front for a bit, I thought he was rotating through, but then he just keep going up the road. So much for wheel sucking... Sounds bitchy, but actually it was funny, and I was stoked to have such a good ride... Fun ride, just frankly happy to be out of my basement...
Thanks for reading.

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fatmarc