I spent the entire day waiting. I despise waiting. I have been waiting for something all my life, at a specific time & place, knowing that once it actually happened after all the intolerable waiting,it woudn’t be that great anyway.Just a chore, a duty, thing-that-must-be-done,  often dealing with the Bureaucracy.

My Verizon wifi hotspot plastic thinga-ma-bob that grants me access to the outside world  decided yesterday to torture me with promise of connectivity, but no access to internet.  All day. I obsessively attempted to get on the damn thing, which I pay 50 bucks a month for.

Which I had great tenderness for; I could carry my little black box anywhere and hook it up and then my computer works and my brain is delighted to get out of my current situation to travel to Paris or Finland or Cali or India or wherever I goddamn wanna go to meet and exchange ideas with other human beings.

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Yesterday it was on strike. No more internet.

I called the Verizon store. Guy said, “could be an issue with a local tower”, and gave me  the number of Tech Support, which I wrote down but had no intention of calling, for I knew me and Sis were going to the local Verizon today. She needs better texting because she has a boyfriend now, and wants a keyboard to be able to write coherently.

Oh but I called tech support anyway . An hour with a gal up in Rochester NY had me jumping through computer hoops for which I was never given agility training .

Open her up, she said, re. the Black Box, and pull out that sim card.  I went at it like a frustrated child and damaged the godalmighty important sleeve gadget that holds the sim card.

Point is: I accidently willfully destroyed this device, my dear one, who was a faithful wife for four months, always there to be  turned on and connected to my computer doings and be my help-mate in distributing splotches of my soul I was inspired to  submit to the Cosmos..

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Waiting. Arg. Sis showed up a half hour late, we stormed Verizon with our uncanny verbal and  mental proficiency hampered by many devices that humbled us, made us supplicants to the so-called Geeks, a proudly owned moniker,

explaining infinitely- exhaustingly complex details about available  products and plans…we sat scrunched in comfy seats, as the fellow, Duke was his name, a calm blasé character…told me my insurance I forgot I purchased will cover it and I will get it fed ex Tuesday.  There was serious business talk over the phone, but Duke was an expert. He explained how I destroyed the device. Whose fault, here? Well, I was FUCKED on warranty  , Duke told me. But insurance…another thing..

Sis didn’t buy a keyboard phone, but upgraded to 1000 texts a month, on the same old retardo phone, with the difference that now if she types in “key words”, the phone will guess what she meant & provide it:  e.g. “meet…” becomes “meet me at” and “there” will be “I’ll be there at…” Good for the active girl.

Practical. She is busy.

Duke is busy.

I really don’t know what “busy” is, I reflected, watching these fine consumers, hip, up to date (my sister fakes it well with my help),doing the American economic thing.  I slouched in my chair and went blank in the head , trying to erase my displeasure and blind irritation of “getting what I want now”.

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Well,  Town free wi fi is back , after a most disagreeable hiatus.

This is how I communicate.

Til I get my new hotspot. Who I promise I will NEVER take tiny screwdriver to, to open her up, then to her battery, and her hidden places one must be careful to touch. I will leave that  to experts from now on….

Luckily I was smashingly presentable in my new hat.

As we approached Verizon, sis said,  “Jimmy, you know you take your hat off inside!”

“Yeah yeah. Where do ya think I was raised, in a farm?” I opened the door for her . She fears these encounters, for they fuel her inherent security, which she, as I, hide by being so damn agreeable and solicitous.

It f-ing works!

Hat off, but hat hair…

Now dependent on Free Wi Fi, til Tuesday……………………..

Wish me luck, forgive me if I am here in jerks and spasms and interludes…………..