Ain’t technology wonderful?

Last night (Monday, June 16, 2008) I noticed an e-mail promotion from EssentialApparel.com.
Essential Apparel is where I ordered my Lee jeans online before.
Regular-cut stone Lee jeans only $19.90 a pair. (Cue Steno-Queen — Regular-cut stone Lee jeans only $5 from the back of the faded blue Econoline in the old Tops parking-lot along Joseph Ave. Or lead-based Chinese jeans from LL Bean; “kindly log in please. Never any shipping; our inflated prices reflect that.”)
Well okay, I’m going to need jeans in not too long; I clicked the link. It’ll be “FoxFire” (FireFox), because my e-mail is through FireFox.
I proceed through the ordering process until “please log in.” —Oh, for cryin’ out loud!
I don’t have an Essential Apparel account that I know of; don’t even want one — although I might; I did receive a promotional e-mail from them.
Think this through, guys. This ain’t a browser issue, or even a platform issue. It’s them WANTING (DEMANDING) I have an account. Do this on Linda’s machine with her Internet-Explorer and we’d get the same hairball.
I tried various e-mail addresses and the password I always use, but “naughty-naughty!”
Much later I gave up; having earlier walked away. Essential Apparel wasn’t allowing a non-account checkout, so I set up a new account, expecting weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth if my account info duplicated an already existing account (mine).
No drama; my new account crunched. Two pair of $19.90 Lee jeans are successfully ordered.
Ain’t technology wonderful?

“Steno-Queen” is my brother-in-Delaware’s wife, called “Steno-Queen” because she once was a stenographer, and is always correcting my spelling and grammar. —She prides herself in always getting the cheapest price for anything; except that she and my brother always buy stuff from LL Bean.

“Joseph Ave.” is the main drag through the slums of Rochester.

“FoxFire” is what my sister in south Floridy calls the Internet-browser “FireFox.” My siblings decided it’s inferior to Internet-Explorer, the browser of champions. I switched to FireFox at the suggestion of a PC user; and because Internet-Explorer was mucking this blog. The blog-site suggested FireFox.

RE: “This ain’t a browser issue, or even a platform issue.......” —My siblings all use Windoze PCs and Internet-Explorer, so of course I am utterly reprehensible and rebellious to use a MAC and FireFox. (I have a hunch they won’t get the “This ain’t a browser issue, or even a platform issue.” —They’ll just tell me to dump my MAC, and switch back to IE.)

“Linda” is my wife of 40+ years. She drives a Windoze PC with Internet-Explorer; which all my siblings loudly advise is what I should be doing. The general advice is for her to do the online ordering from her rig, with her Internet-Explorer.