So far I've managed to stay out of dealing with some grown-up things but now my time with inexperience has come to an end. I have spent almost the entire day thinking and talking about 1) electricity and 2) internet connections. It sucks, especially since I don't really understand much about what I'm dealing with.
Well, the first few hours (okay not really but it felt like it) spent on the phone with the electricity company proved the superiority of women to men. I first spoke to some guy and although the phone call was very useful and I found out lots of stuff, I still had to call them back for more information after the obligatory support-call to my dad. The second time, I spoke to a female customer servant who managed to answer all my questions that I basically asked the first time but never got a real answer. Besides, she was much more helpful and I felt like she really cared about my problem, unlike the guy who was more in the mood of wondering about the problem with me instead of doing something about it.
Oh, and something really weird is going on here with the electricity contracts and bills. Let's just say that there's a no man's land of an apartment somewhere and we get the bills and it's really confusing and this has probably caused me a few grey hairs. However, it's not my problem and someone else will fix it, the thing is that I've spent the entire day trying to figure it out.
Well, as soon as I got some clarity from the electricity company on the phone, I went to the center to make an electricity contract. I did, and I was so glad that I had to reward myself with a little bit of shopping. The guy who I wrote the contract with was very friendly and answered patiently all my questions again (I had sort of asked them once last week already) and he returned my faith in male customer servants for a while.
Then I went and got an internet connection contract from a very friendly guy, as well. I went home and started testing it and my I-don't-suck-at-this-stuff-after-all- mood started to fade. After numerous calls to my dad and some surfing in the very slow internet, I dragged a friend along and went back to the store. I ended up returning the whole internet thing I had purchased earlier and I have to say, that trip ruined my once restored faith in male customer servants. I got a feeling that he was condescending and didn't take my problems seriously, and even had a stupid smug smile in his face when I tried to use the correct terms (that I do not completely understand, I admit) to explain what my problem was. Not very nice.
So, all in all, my day has been sort of productive when it comes to this weird grown-up stuff but otherwise I have achieved none of my actual goals for the day. Also, this has been a very exhausting day emotionally: I've dealt with a lot of frustration with machines and people, confusion when someone talks to me in Finnish and I have no clue what they just said, over-energetic points when something actually goes as planned and I get a feeling of competence and mere exhaustion when I realize I woke up twelve hours ago and still have not started to study for my history exam.
Twelve hours later and much wiser, I end this post and try not to think about electricity or internet. At least not before tomorrow, when I will go and try to get another internet contract. Can't wait.
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