Your Emergency Is Scheduled For Thursday

Jack needs to be groomed so I went ahead and made arrangements last week.

When I previously took him, I contacted them late and was forced to arrange an appointment for later in the afternoon which really cuts into my plans for the day.

This time I had it all worked out. I made the appointment for 9am and figured that while he's there (usually about 2-3 hours), I would go to the gym and run some errands. I'd pick the shorn little scamp up and then we'd head back to be home by 1pm.

While at work today, I noticed I had a voicemail from Petsmart. My first thought was that they mixed up the days and had him down for today. However, when I listened to it, here's what I heard...

"Hi, we're calling to see if you can reschedule your appointment for noon on Thursday as Jim has an emergency in the morning and won't be able to make it at 9am."

Really?

One of those scheduled emergencies, huh? I wasn't aware that you could do that! I wish that sometimes I could schedule emergencies just because it's nice to have a heads up a few days early.

I'm going to have to look into developing an itinerary whereby I arrange my events to revolve around impending doom. Wonder if there's money in that?

Then when I got home, I happened to notice that Southwest was offering some great rates on flights (through an article on AOL). I had already booked my flight into Vegas (and will be driving to LA to pitch some ideas) in October but I was curious to see if the prices had changed.

Of course they had! In fact, I could now save at least $100 on the trip altogether.

What I was dismayed about was the fact that my confirmation stated that the tickets were non refundable.

Quite the pickle.

So I was able to rearrange my flights to grab the new pricing ($180 + taxes round trip) but had to push the extra funds into an account for future use. Personally, I'd rather have the $100 in my pocket but at least it gives me an excuse to take another trip somewhere by June of next year.

Finally (and perhaps the greatest travesty of the day), I had a great line to use at work but no one chomped at the bit.

I was working on the bookmark display and, of course, customers chose that particular time to express a genuine interest in them, preventing me from completing the task efficiently.

At one point, I was trying to fill an empty space with some that I had in my hand as a woman perused the section. When she stepped away, I moved back to refill the slot with "cutesy" bookmarks. I was hoping she would be curious enough to ask what type I had on me so that I could reply...

"Ladybugs and teddy bears. Coincidentally, the title of my autobiography."

But she never asked...

Guess I'll have to save it for another time. ;)