Hello, My name is JAYME.

Did anyone else commuting to Raleigh enjoy the crawl to work yesterday? I rode the brakes from highway 42 all the way to Six Forks Road. I think I could have canoed to work faster. I also love how tree limbs fell on my firebird and dented the hood in. There were two huge limbs just laying on the car when I got home the other day, the silly thing is this — there was a little bird sitting on top of one of the limbs chirping away like nothing was wrong!! How rude was that? Maybe I should find a rock and toss it his way.

One of life’s many annoyances. To those of you that don’t own a Nextel phone, don’t buy one unless you would like to see this message appear on your phone frequently. User Busy in A3 will make you want to stomp your phone into tiny pieces. Next in line comes User Busy in Data. This message is supposed to be given when someone on the other phone is using the Nextel Wireless Web feature. Well guess what? Mommy dearest doesn’t use the Nextel Wireless Web feature and there is rarely a time when I beep her that I don’t get that message. If you buy a Nextel, be prepared to hang yourself before you are able to finish or possibly start a conversation. Done.

Would you like to Biggie Size that? I’m sure most of you have been asked that ludicrous question. I figure since their ploy to ask it until they are blue in the face doesn’t seem to work with most customers, so they had to come up with another way to get customers to pay for Biggie Size whether the customer wants it or not. I had the pleasure of visiting the drive-thru window at the Wendy’s @ McGee’s Xroads this past week on the way to band practice. I looked at the menu outside and I noticed that the price of the classic single combo was 4 dollars and some change. This is definitely higher than what I was used to seeing. Normally it is 3 dollars and change. I told the drive-thru guy that I wanted the classic single combo with a coke, NOT BIGGIE SIZED. Well, I thought he got the picture. Little did I know that the pricing outside is different than the pricing on the inside. The guy never bothered to tell me that! They MAKE you pay the Biggie price when you drive-thru. So I was a good citizen and just accepted the fact that I was being autoBiggied and paid the penalty. I drove up to the pickup window and they basically had the food hanging out the window and the Biggie coke in hand. I asked the manager that was handing me the food, “Why do I always get biggie sized when I don’t ask for it and why is the price different?”. Her only explanation was that all the area Wendy’s were starting to do that. I told her that I live about a 5 minute walk to the Wendy’s I eat at in Garner and I’ve never had to deal with that. She was dumbfounded and really didn’t know what to say. So I just gave her a ridiculous look and just drove off out of frustration (probably leaving some rubber on the pavement). Why do I never check my bag before I drive off? I’ll never learn. I got back on I-40–low and behold, my fries were cold and it was a regular sized fry–it wasn’t even BIGGIE!! Well I just ate my faithful cheeseburger and decided not to eat the leathery cold fries. Once I finished that up, I was looking so forward to that BIGGIE coke. I took one big sip and almost busted a blood vessel. They had given me a DIET coke for crying out loud. Heavens to Betsy, could I have picked a worse place to eat?? Anyway, the rest is history. I guess this was written to serve as a reminder to NEVER go through the drive-thru at Wendy’s unless you want to be robbed. Dave would roll over in his grave.

Does anyone besides me grow extremely weary of seeing a fresh copy of The Herald Extra in their driveway every week? I don’t remember signing up for this weak attempt of a newspaper. To add insult to injury, it just gets thrown in my yard like a McDonald’s ‘to-go’ bag. If someone is just going to throw crap in my driveway, let’s call it what it is. It is merely LITTERING. I wish the doofus that throws it my yard, would at least place it in the mailbox with the rest of the trash I get from day to day. I have enough to pick up in my yard, namely pine cones, without having to worry about a white piece of trash from week to week. Nonetheless, I have come up with a solution. I have started saving all of my Herald Extras in a large trash bag. I will then drive to the Smithfield Herald Office and throw them one by one into their driveway. Hopefully they will get the message.