What does LA mean?

Wednesday, August 24th, 2005: We’ve been doing a lot of nothing over the past couple days. Catching up on being lazy after such an active week. I put a bunch of furniture up on craigslist.com again and it’s been going well. Lots of good inquiries and 2 things have been picked up already. Yesterday I sold an office supply cabinet for $25.00. The lady and husband come in and look it over. She asks if I’d take just $20 for it. I say no, I’d rather take the full $25. She says she hopes I have change because they only have $20 bills, as the husband is looking in his wallet and confirming that yes, there are only $20 in there. Finally, after a few moments of me not changing the price for them, the husband pulls out a big wad of cash from his pocket (lots of $1’s and $5’s, it looks like) and pays me the even $25.00 – a $20 bill and 5 $1’s. I’m such a terrible haggler.

This morning, for my work, I was talking to this guy in a call center about a person’s account. The call center guy was being helpful and reading the guy’s address to me. The guy lived in Dequincy, LA. The call center guy kept telling me that his address was in Dequincy, Los Angeles. I played along, saying “That’s odd, how can he have 2 cities in there? I wonder which state this belongs in then.” He suggested it was probably a California address. I wondered to him why they would put Los Angeles in the state field, then, instead of CA for California. The call center guy figured it must be some kind of mistake made by whoever originally created the account. Luckily he didn’t seem interested in correcting the “mistake” so the customer’s bills didn’t get sent to California. Pretty sad, really. The guy sounded older than me but didn’t know what LA was. Those call center people are always confusing MI for Mississippi, Missouri and Minnesota too. But this is the first time I’ve come across one that doesn’t know what LA stands for.

Jammie, you rule for pointing out craigslist.com to me. I’ve already made about $200 from selling furniture. And I’ll make another $200 this week if everything sells. Then even more when I put more furniture up. Then I get to use craigslist.com when I get to Oregon to buy furniture back. So yeah, you rule. This is much more efficient and profitable than having a yard sale. Thanks!

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Friday, August 26th, 2005: Jammie put up approximately a million of our vacation pictures on Petridish. Click here to view them all.