The Bit With The Blogversary…

Yet another entry into the ever expand­ing volumes of “You Couldn’t Bloody Make It Up” :-

A deliv­ery man comes to the door, par­cel in hand and rings the door­bell. Upon open­ing the door, which of the fol­low­ing greets me:

A) “Good after­noon madam, I have a par­cel for you, would you sign here, please?” he says, ges­tur­ing towards his PDA.

B) “A’wight luv? Par­cel for ya.” he says, thrust­ing said par­cel into my hands.

C) Takes one look at my wheel­chair before I can even fully open the door and asks, before he’s even set eyes on my face, “Ooh, what you gone and done to your­self, eh Girl?”

Yep, you guessed it, C. Not “hello”, “good day”, “kiss my arse”, noth­ing. Just “What have I gone and done to myself” (!) Why, Good Day to you too, sir!

Great to see that DDA/Equality in Cus­tomer Ser­vice train­ing is going down a treat.

In other news, today marks the first Blo­gversary of Claire.NU. As I men­tioned in my last post, I’d very much appre­ci­ate it if read­ers could take the time to com­ment and state their favour­ite posts over the last year (if they have any).

So far, there’s a sol­it­ary nom­in­a­tion for the anec­dote which fea­tures my pubic hair. Surely that can’t be as good as it gets, can it?

I know a wave of the lurgy has swept across the blo­go­sphere of late, so I am aware of why some haven’t par­ti­cip­ated as yet.

*Sends get-well thoughts to poor Vixx in hos­pital*

December 5, 2006 – 6:16 pm | By Claire | Posted in Blogosphere, Disability, Life Story | Comments (10) | Printer-Friendy Version

10 Comments

  • Amber wrote:
    Dec 5, 2006 at 7:14 pm

    Well as I have only just this minute (or half an hour ago) dis­covered your blog I can’t com­ment on my favour­ite blog entries of the past year. Can I just take this moment to say that I love your glasses? *shows pic­ture to mum* — those are the ones I want. (If I needed glasses of course.)

    I’m tak­ing busi­ness stud­ies at school (the most bor­ing thing ever, really, even worse than double sci­ence on fri­day after­noons) and my first les­son was on diversity and how we should treat all cus­tom­ers the same, and accord­ing to their needs. Appar­ently the eejit must have missed out on that part of his course!

    Lime green and pink are my favour­ites, by the way. (Just thought I’d throw that in in this ridicu­lously long comment!)

  • Vixx wrote:
    Dec 6, 2006 at 7:52 pm

    What a cock. Did you punch him in the gonads?

    Thanks for the get well wishes. *hug* You rock. :)
    V xx

  • Denise wrote:
    Dec 7, 2006 at 7:03 am

    Wao… what a A-hole. I like your site very much, very inter­est­ing :bounces: I also read about your con­di­tion, I didn’t know what it was but now I do. I think you are awe­some and I admire the fact that you are thank­ful for everything :swoon: Lots of people could learn from you :)

  • Claire wrote:
    Dec 7, 2006 at 9:12 am

    Amber: Why thank you :) (they’re from French Connection’s “Vis­ion” range [avail­able in a metal­lic Air Force blue or a metal­lic Burgundy/Claret red], mine are the red).

    Don’t worry about not being able to pick your fave yet, I’m just glad to have found a new reader :) Wel­come! x

    Vixx: Unfor­tu­nately no, all I did was smile and pre­tend I hadn’t heard him, tbh, I was so shocked that I just didn’t know what to say or how to react, as that hasn’t happened to me for about 10 years! (It was much more com­mon when I was on crutches as a kid)

    Den­ise:

    I also read about your con­di­tion, I didn’t know what it was but now I do.

    :) Thanks, that’s good to hear :) That’s one of the main reas­ons I wrote about it, so oth­ers could find out what it was — I know that many that have just “heard” about it, tend to have misconceptions.

    I admire the fact that you are thank­ful for everything

    :blush: At the end of the day, no mat­ter what hap­pens to you, there’s always someone some­where who’s got it worse … I just always try to remem­ber that :nods: (as awful as that sounds!)

  • Suebob wrote:
    Dec 7, 2006 at 5:42 pm

    I haven’t been read­ing your blog for too long, but I did take a stroll through the archives and imme­di­ately found this piece of brilliance:

    http://claire.nu/?p=100

    It says so many things that need to be said. Liv­ing with a con­di­tion that requires a wheel­chair just seems to allow people to treat you as a screen to pro­ject their own hopes and fears on — their hope that if they were ever met with the same fate, that they would be happy and brave, or their fear that if they should tread wrong — eat the wrong food, pray to the wrong god — that it might hap­pen to them.

    And a little while ago — maybe 2 weeks — I linked to your “Sex in the City” post over at my link blog, http://linkateria.blogspot.com , so I sup­posed that could count too.

    Happy blo­giversary! Many happy returns.

  • Claire wrote:
    Dec 7, 2006 at 7:46 pm

    Sue­bob:

    I haven’t been read­ing your blog for too long, but I did take a stroll through the archives

    :heart: As I said to Amber — I love dis­cov­er­ing the new/different people that “read me”. :)

    It says so many things that need to be said.

    Thanks for that, really. I wrote that post when I was quite irate and I some­times won­der if that’s such a good idea! :|
    And thanks for tak­ing the time to “de-lurk”, browse the archives and “vote”, your choices have been grate­fully logged! :nods:
    Cheers x

  • Lew wrote:
    Dec 8, 2006 at 3:53 pm

    I’m going to vote for “The Bit Where I Wanted An About Page…”

    It really got me think­ing and promp­ted me to write an about page and ded­ic­ate it to you.

    I think an about page has become very import­ant. As the web star­ted as aca­dem­ics look­ing for other aca­ma­dem­ics opi­ons and com­ments, so the social revolu­tion has turned the web in to a tool for enga­ging with oth­ers and shar­ing our lives, through Flickr for example. The about page has become the instant know­ledge many people need to instantly under­stand all the nuances in a web­log post.

    Huzzah for the about page, and huzzah for you for guilt­ing me, and I’m sure oth­ers, in to put­ting one up.

  • Bean wrote:
    Dec 9, 2006 at 12:34 am

    Hey,

    In a bid to prcras­tin­ate as much as humanly pos­sible i made lots of rice pud­ding and then sat down to read past blogs. Here are my favourites:

    http://claire.nu/?p=65

    http://claire.nu/?p=70

    http://claire.nu/?p=77

    http://claire.nu/?p=97 (nat­ur­ally — it included pho­tos of tigers :>)

    http://claire.nu/?p=112

    http://claire.nu/?p=116 (cos it is fun listen­ing :> — you should do it more ;) )

    Sorry it took a while, but i got there in the end!

    Hope you are not *too* excited about tomor­row (well tech­nic­ally later on today), you will have excel­lent fun, i am sure :>

    Love Bean xoxox

  • Sarah wrote:
    Dec 10, 2006 at 9:09 am

    Hey Claire, I really like your blog… and you also like Depeche Mode ;) I will come here from time to time, but I’ve already done so before

  • Karl wrote:
    Dec 11, 2006 at 11:48 am

    At least you’re get­ting things delivered…;) I’ve just had to nip out of work to the Telford Royal Mail branch to grab a par­cel they’ve failed to deliver..and every time I’ve called to say “oi”, I’ve had “the answerphone is full..sorry.”.

    They also say you can go to a webpage to organ­ise redelivery…shame the page says “not oper­a­tional until Janu­ary 2007.”

    Heyho…:)

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