Online Fame | A 'blog written by Chris Rhee

Q: How many Bush Administration officials does it take to screw in a light bulb?

A: None. There is nothing wrong with the light bulb; its conditions are improving every day. Any reports of its lack of incandescence are delusional spin from the liberal media. That light bulb has served honorably, and anything you say undermines the lighting effort. Why do you hate America?

I’m having to call the DMV offices multiple times a week to schedule a driving test, but everything is booked for 30 days and you can’t make appointments any earlier than 30 days ahead. And you can only make appointments through their awful phone service.

If you ever get past their busy signal, you get greeted with a message in English and then that same message translated in Spanish. It’s quite a long message when what they really should do is get to the stupid menu. The first thing on the menu is a choice for whether you want an English or Spanish menu. Couldn’t this have been first? For someone who’s calling in multiple times, that first message gets pretty damn annoying…

The time it took from me dialing the number to actually speaking to a real person: average of seventeen minutes. And the conversation is one minute long: I ask if they’re available to make an appointment. They say they’re booked for 30 days and we hang up. K thx die.

If you don’t like getting telemarketing calls, I’d recommend registering your number with the federal Do Not Call list.

I was reading their website though, and I noticed that calls from long-distance companies, airlines, bank and credit unions, business of insurance and telephone surveys are not covered by this law— meaning you will still receive those types of calls. Unfortunately, the bulk of telemarketing calls I receive fall into those categories.

That’s like only banning spam messages that advertise meat loaf ingredients. And I like meat loaf.