LOL moment

Friday afternoon I had an LOL moment. Not just using the acronym, seriously laughing out loud in my car. Here's what happened...

I got home from work a little early because I had to meet with the cabinet guy (we're finally ordering kitchen and basement cabinets...hooray!) Shortly after he left, I noticed my cell phone wouldn't work. Well, since I definitely HAD NOT dropped it on the tile floor twice already that day (er...maybe three times and the third happened about 5 minutes before it stopped working...I mean, hypothetically speaking, that might have happened...). Anyhoo, I felt sure it was broken by no fault of my own. ;)

I had to run out and get a birthday present for the cutest kid ever (pics from his party later), so I thought I'd swing by the Verizon store on the way. My first clue that the ENTIRE Verizon network was down in Chattanooga should have been the fact that there were at least 50 cars in the parking lot. (Think I'm exaggerating? I'm not. It was a traffic jam trying to pull in.) I have NEVER been to that store when there are more than 5 cars...maybe 5. So, I parked next door in the KMart parking lot, and walk to Verizon. The poor lady holding open the door looked incredibly frazzled, and she was repeating over and over "The entire network is down. If your only problem is that you can't call out or receive calls, we can't help you right now. We are aware of the problem, and it will be fixed within the hour. It's your choice if you would like to wait."

People were coming into the store in droves...it was crazy! Like, Black Friday shopping crazy amount of people. So, I decided to leave and take the chance that my phone wouldn't work because of the network. (FYI, that *was* the problem...my phone works fine now!) As I sat in the traffic jam to pull back out of the parking lot, I literally laughed out loud. First of all, WHY are all these people not at work on a Friday afternoon at 3:00...er...me included? Second, how sad is it that we are that reliant on our cell phones...me included!