Arggggg!

I go into work at 7:30 this morning. We open at 9:00. The phone rings at 7:47. Conversation:

Sarah: Thank you for choosing (insert place of work here) this morning. This is Sarah.

Customer: Yeah, uh, I applied for a credit card sometime. And uh I want to know where it is.

Sarah: I would be more than happy to have a personal banker call you when we open at 9:00 and they would be able to give you that information.

Customer: What time is it?

Sarah: 7:47

Customer: So you aren't open?

Sarah: no.

Customer: So what are you doing there then?

Sarah: getting ready for the day so I can answer stupid questions for customers. (kidding, kind of)

Sarah really said: getting ready to open in the next hour and thirteen minutes. I will have a banker call you when we are open for business. Do you have a number I can have them reach you at?

Customer: No. My phones been disconnected. I'll call back.

What is wrong with people? Really? Any answers will be welcome in the comments section.

Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to all you mothers and soon-to-be mother's. Even if you are thinking about someday being a mother...Happy Mother's Day to you.

And a little history:

In the United States, Mother's Day started nearly 150 years ago, when Anna Jarvis, an Appalachian homemaker, organized a day to raise awareness of poor health conditions in her community, a cause she believed would be best advocated by mothers. She called it "Mother's Work Day."

Fifteen years later, Julia Ward Howe, a Boston poet, pacifist, suffragist, and author of the lyrics to the "Battle Hymn of the Republic," organized a day encouraging mothers to rally for peace, since she believed they bore the loss of human life more harshly than anyone else.

In 1905 when Anna Jarvis died, her daughter, also named Anna, began a campaign to memorialize the life work of her mother. Legend has it that young Anna remembered a Sunday school lesson that her mother gave in which she said, "I hope and pray that someone, sometime, will found a memorial mother's day. There are many days for men, but none for mothers."

Anna began to lobby prominent businessmen like John Wannamaker, and politicians including Presidents Taft and Roosevelt to support her campaign to create a special day to honor mothers. At one of the first services organized to celebrate Anna's mother in 1908, at her church in West Virginia, Anna handed out her mother's favorite flower, the white carnation. Five years later, the House of Representatives adopted a resolution calling for officials of the federal government to wear white carnations on Mother's Day. In 1914 Anna's hard work paid off when Woodrow Wilson signed a bill recognizing Mother's Day as a national holiday.