Nothing Works

Yesterday I went to Google and typed in "Coin counters". It came up with about 2,000,000 places I could buy one + shipping. Since I did not have the time to run through 2 million web sites, I took a chance and ran Office Depot, and was successful in finding they had a coin counter for $29.99. My current coin counter died a centsless death and Rho and I had no place to put our spare change except into a cup. The problem with that is when we need to wrap them, they all have to be laid out and separated on the floor and that's a nasty, boring, experience. So, I gleefully went to Office Depot and found that the machine I saw on the web was now selling for $21.99 and I bought it. I rushed home anticipating the joy I would have collecting all the change lying around the house and having this machine count them for me. So I unpacked it and put in two batteries and started dropping coins into it. When the quarter tube was filled, I opened it, took out the quarters and wrapped them. Then when I tried to nudge the tray back into place, it refused to be nudged, let alone budged. Didn't work no more. So, I took it back to the store and had it replaced with the same product. Only now I'm afraid to take it out of the box.

But, that's not the only thing that doesn't work. My ISP, Comcast has a "Chat" feature whereby if something bothers you, or something doesn't work, you can have a "live" chat with someone 24/7. Problem is, ever since Adelphia stopped working and passed their problems onto Comcast, Comcast doesn't work too well either. Every time I try to "Chat" I get an error message that they don't recognize my name and password. So, I'll just forget about chatting with a "live" person. Secondly, or thirdly, (I tend to forget where I am...so my memory has working problems), when I send an email, there is a "signature" feature. That doesn't work. No signatures get attached to my emails. Then when I forward a message to my email account at Excite.com, it gets bounced back to Comcast. So, that doesn't work. We recently bought a new stove with a glass top and when we tried to boil water in our well-used spaghetti pot, it got really hot, but the water never boiled. So, we had to go looking for pots that would work, when it was really the stove that was not working.

Up to now, I've been complaining about appliances, etc. not working. But as one reaches my stage in life, I've discovered that some of my own "appliances" have either stopped working, or do not work as well as formerly. By "formerly" I mean like when I was 18. My ears are malfunctioning, my legs are getting wobbly, my hair is turning color and getting thinner, my stomach is enlarging, and I could go on, but if I do, I'm fearful of getting depressed...so, enough of this.

Tonite we are dining out with my 90+ year old Aunt Belle and my sister and brother-in-law, Mickey. I don't remember the name of the restaurant, but it will most likely be in bankruptcy.