Comments on: That, I Didn’t Expect http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/that-i-didnt-expect/ falling indelibly into the past Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:39:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: KF http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/that-i-didnt-expect/#comment-2351 KF Thu, 08 Aug 2002 19:34:42 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=980#comment-2351 <p>Stunningly, the stuff did all show up.  It was thrown a bit randomly in the truck, but everything’s accounted for.  It’s all in a big pile in the apartment I can’t live in yet, though, so I haven’t been able to unpack and see how much destruction has been wreaked on the stuff in the boxes.  But I’m hoping for the best. </p> <p> Sadly, said company is not yet out of business, but I’ll keep working on it. </p> Stunningly, the stuff did all show up.  It was thrown a bit randomly in the truck, but everything’s accounted for.  It’s all in a big pile in the apartment I can’t live in yet, though, so I haven’t been able to unpack and see how much destruction has been wreaked on the stuff in the boxes.  But I’m hoping for the best.

Sadly, said company is not yet out of business, but I’ll keep working on it.

]]> By: BT http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/that-i-didnt-expect/#comment-2350 BT Thu, 08 Aug 2002 17:57:37 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=980#comment-2350 <p>Oh and, all whimsy aside, I hope you’ve since gotten your furniture, and it’s in good order, and the moving company has, in the moments following the total completion of your business with them, gone into bankruptcy. </p> Oh and, all whimsy aside, I hope you’ve since gotten your furniture, and it’s in good order, and the moving company has, in the moments following the total completion of your business with them, gone into bankruptcy.

]]> By: BT http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/that-i-didnt-expect/#comment-2349 BT Thu, 08 Aug 2002 17:55:41 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=980#comment-2349 <p>One of the sentences I hope never to be on the receiving end of is “And they had to send another driver out to recover the truck in Vegas.” </p> <p> I get this image of a cartoon-style anthropomorphic moving van, bellied up to a craps table, cupping the dice in one tire, yelling “C’mon seven!” The dice are rolled and come up snake eyes, and the croupier imperterurbably uses his stick to sweep away your television set. </p> <p> Obviously, there are some problems with scale here.  But I dream in old Warner Bros. ‘toons. </p> One of the sentences I hope never to be on the receiving end of is “And they had to send another driver out to recover the truck in Vegas.”

I get this image of a cartoon-style anthropomorphic moving van, bellied up to a craps table, cupping the dice in one tire, yelling “C’mon seven!” The dice are rolled and come up snake eyes, and the croupier imperterurbably uses his stick to sweep away your television set.

Obviously, there are some problems with scale here.  But I dream in old Warner Bros. ‘toons.

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