Mañana

C70651.

I need a few more railroad Christmas cards, so I fire up good old Trumble Greetings in my FireFox® Internet browser.
Should take maybe 10-15 minutes; ain’t technology wonderful?
Plug C70651 into search-window. Whir, click! There it is. Change quantity from one to 15; “add to cart.”
Oh well, “continue shopping.”
Plug C71026 into search-window. There it is. Change quantity from one to 15; “add to cart.”
“Proceed to checkout.” Oh, I forgot. This site doesn’t work with FireFox.
Fire up good old Microsoft Internet Explorer, the Granny browser. Trumble Greetings works with that.
“View cart;” empty!
Interesting; I thought I just put stuff in there with FireFox.

C71026.

C70651 and C71026; 15 cards each.
“Proceed to checkout.
You have qualified for our boobie-prize. Please select.”
“What if I don’t want your boobie-prize?”
“Please select, or else!
Complete order; proceed to checkout.”
“What’s this?” I say. “Around-and-around, and back to ‘proceed to checkout.’”
“Proceed to checkout.” Around we go again, and back to “Proceed to checkout.”
“I seem to be in the same loop I was the other night, and there’s no escape,” I say.
My wife comes in and looks at the display.
“Click here to validate your boobie-prize” — well hidden.
“Change boobie-prize?”
Sure; one of the selections is 10 additional cards — “Buy 20 cards; get 10 more free.”
I select that, but that’s 10 additional cards on top of the 30 I ordered. I’d rather get 30 total; 10 free.
Whoa-whoa-whoa; what was supposed to take 10-15 minutes is turning into a three-hour wrastling match.
Quit; mañana.
Seems every online order turns into an arduous wrastling match.

• RE: “Railroad Christmas cards......” —The Christmas cards I send are of wintery railroad scenes. I’ve been a railfan all my life.
• My wife of 41+ years is “Linda.” Like me she’s retired, but she works part-time at the West Bloomfield post-office. —She retired from full-time employ as a computer programmer.