Olympic Coverage

Turned on the TV today to see Olyympic coverage of swimming, bicycling, and water polo. The women's gymnastics was scheduled tonight so I went online after coming home from work to see the highlights. Forgive me if I don't feel like recording 6 hours of coverage and watch only 15 minutes of it, that is a lot of fast forwarding. It is reported the Americans did lousy and the Chinese kicked our butts. I viewed photos of the ladies in action to read in the captions only critiques on the color of the leotards and whether or not they match the country's flag. Excuse me, but if I wanted a fashion report I'll read a fashion magazine. Then I tried for the video highlights to be asked to choose my TV service provider and agree to declare that I am a paying subscriber to this company. There was no antenna option. With cuts to my paycheck, I can't afford cable or satellite. So I don't get to watch online videos of the lousy performance of the American ladies. I did see highlights of the Men's Gymnastics for free though.

At work the car rental guy next door had the stupidest woman on earth. Her credit card declines. She doesn't understand, there is no limit on this card. Insists he run again. He refuses cause it won't go through no matter how many times he swipes it. She calls the credit card company and gives the phone to her husband. They refuse to speak to the hubby since the cardholder is the wife. They inform her that she didn't pay her last bill (big surprise) and it is a week late. She wants the car rental guy to speak to the credit card people. He refuses cause he has nothing to say to them, he computer says declined. She makes her husband go out to the car to get her other credit card and calls to make sure it is activated. It's not and activation has to take place on the home phone, not cell. Now she is furious she can't get a car. Apparently, the husband doens't have a credit card on him. She takes the rental guy's name down and asked her hubby if he heard everything he said cause she is going to complain about this to his boss tomorrow. I said to him, What are they going to do, fire you because her credit card declined? As my manager once said, That woman is married to somebody and be glad it is not you.

Later. Gotta go to bed now.