The Bells Have Made Me Deaf

This weeks deliveries to my door included a selection of new bras, a wireless router and several pairs of shoes.

The shoes were all too small. Since European sizing came into vogue, my feet seemed to have miraculously grown even bigger or maybe those Brussels standards are not to be trusted. I’m not a shoe person at all so I don’t tend to buy them unless the last pair are falling apart which usually means I get a replacement pair every 3 years or so. April to October/November I wear walking sandals, provided there’s no frost and it isn’t one of those “proper shoes” occasions. Anyhow, the ones that arrived were all good sensible walking shoes and a smart but casual pair of toe-less hoojahs for good measure. I ordered a few for choice, not intending to keep them all but I was surprised that not one pair actually fitted well enough to make buying an option.

A parcelforce man arrived with a parcel and one of those awful machine thingies that you have to sign for whatever it is you get. I hate them. It’s hard enough to write anything any more with using a keyboard so much but how anyone could prove that signature was mine is beyond me. You can’t even see what you’re writing for goodness sake! In the parcel was my new Livebox from Orange.

Wireless is a pain in the arse to set up, or so I thought. After almost losing patience and launching the whole bing jing out the nearest window, I found that XP was not to be cursed but rather the incomplete step by step guide from Orange and a totally useless installation disk which they know is a problem (if you have installed the updates for Adobe) but continue to send out to new customers regardless…. duh. I pity anyone with no geekish inclinations who’s trying to get the thing to work. Then again, they include in the parcel a phone number for some wireless experts who will come and install the lot for just £70. Hmm… how convenient.

Half the bras (co-incidentally, also wireless) fitted just fine and the rest will be hurtling back to the warehouse marked as “too tight”. Who needs that sort of torture. It’s bad enough being harnessed all day without the circulation to your brain being cut off as well.

Posted on Thursday, February 15th, 2007 at 11:37 am.
Tags: Shopping, The Internet, wireless, Orange Livebox.
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