Yes - I've got laryngitis just to inconvenience you!

[Pagan]

I could change my tag line to something like 'proud to be 4...4....' but screw it, I can't even get the words out.

I'm facing that one next year. But, anyone asks how old I am, all they get is "29". Hey, I can't be older than my mother and she 29, too!

HSW: Wheeeeze! (wan smile and wave)

With one finger! Honestly, what is it with these sadistic assholes that do this? Uh, I think I just answered my own question there....next!

[XCashier]

And yes, turning 25 is SOOOOO awesome.

Off topic, but amusing, my 21 year old son called me from college and pretended to be stupid at math. Saying he needed help subtracting 1968 from 2008 and could I help him with the total. Little shit!

Aw, don't feel bad, I was born earlier the same year, you're not the only "25-year-old" on the board.

Sorry about the laryngitis. I've had it a few times when I was in customer service. And as AE pointed out, there's always some SC who takes sadistic delight in making you tell them the fine points of every item they're purchasing when you sound like Marge Simpson.

Have a nice hot cup of tea with honey and get lots of rest!

[powerboy]

First, Happy Birthday.
Second, I hate the speaker phone.
Third, I hate it when I am just down right sick and every customer is wanting to know every little tidbit, about every little product ever made

[StanFlouride]

Throat Coat Tea!! Made by Traditional Medicinals in California
It is the best stuff for a sore throat, very soothing and it even tastes great. Available at most health food stores, some larger produce markets.
I keep a few teabags at work in the store first aid box.

Hope you feel better soon (I just got over the same, still coughing after 14 days but feel fine)

[pacman]

Oh how I love to have paid sick leave here. I'm having the flu now accompanied with fever and I feel like I'd been run over by a train. I know how it feels to work retail or phones when sick tho. I once (in my previous job) felt pretty well, just a bit dizzy, and my coworkers told me to go home and to get some rest. I worked the rest of the day (only 1hr left so whattaheck), went home and discovered me having a 39,6C fever... And then in two hours it'd gone back to almost normal (37C). You bet it felt funny.

Late birthday congratulations and lots of hot tea and cookies to you!

[auntiem]

Happy belated B-day! If it makes you feel any better - I'm a year older (summer of love baby and all that).

On topic - oh how I hate the speaker phone convos. I swear one guy is building a boat or something while talking to me on his speakerphone.
People are getting more impatient and rude who knows the reason, but I'm always sorely tempted to put something in the OSI field so they get searched at every possible check point or get seated next to a crying baby for the whole flight.

Hope you feel better!

[Pagan]

On topic - oh how I hate the speaker phone convos. I swear one guy is building a boat or something while talking to me on his speakerphone.

What I hate about speaker phone is the damned echo! Distracts me to no end. It's just enough of a delay that I wind up listening to myself and lose my train of thought!

[smileyeagle1021]

Don't feel too bad Peppergirl... my mother still isn't admitting that she gets mailers from AARP (which I know isn't true because her name is on the dead to my condo as well as mine and they send mailers to her at my condo as well as her house
Oh, and she does the whole "i'm not old enough" to me too... last time I visited her I told her "hey, i'm going out for drinks with friends, Kyle's the designated driver"... her response "oh no you aren't, I'm not old enough to have a son who is old enough to go to bars"

[Lace Neil Singer]

Happy Birthday!

It sucks greatly having to work when ill, but working when ill on your birthday... that's sucktastic. *there there* Hope you feel better soon!

Whenever I get that kind of virus, it makes a beeline for my chest. -.- I've gone to work with a chest infection, only to find that people are constantly bitching and crabbing at me, or saying "Shouldn't you be in bed?" That's nice, but I don't get paid for being there!

Try some honey in a hot drink; honey is great for sore throats. ^^

[Mordecai]

Sorry to hear you're sick. I had some kind of throat infection last December, and it sucked having to speak over the noise in the lobby for eight hours. I Hope you feel better soon.