Another mystery

I answered a call at work the other night and it's still rolling in my head for some reason. The lady asked me if I had the number to another location. I looked it up (wondering why she doesn't just use Google) and gave it to her. She grumpily told me she'd tried that and it was disconnected. I asked her what she needed (Second time she'd found a hair in her food), got a name and number and told her I'd do all I can to get ahold of them for her. We started getting busy so I scribbled a message down and faxed it to the store, figuring it was just a loose wire or something.

The rush came and went and the fax didn't go through. So now I'm thinking maybe there's something a little bigger, like a phone company issue or whatever. Figuring I've got a little time on my hands and a few brownie points never hurt anyone, I hopped in my car when my shift was through and drove to the location, I'd been there before. When I got there, I immediately solve this lady's problem. It wasn't one of our restaurants anymore. It was something called Klatch. So somehow this lady had gone inside, ordered and received food without knowing anything about the place. I guess it was her good fortune it hadn't been converted to a dog turd warehouse or something. 

I pulled out my cell to call her and gently explain how she's too stupid to leave the house and she's no longer my problem. The number she left me was for a voice mail and it made me want to cry. Maybe it's a generational thing, but when I go to leave new messages for a vm or whatever, I try to think of what I'm going to say before I hit record. Even then, I'll play it back and see if I like it. Clearly this lady had never considered what she was going to say because she'd never left one before and, evidently never heard one either. It was muffled and rambling, but also quite long. One thing got through though, leave a number. She said it about four times, so that must be THE most important thing. I got ready to give her a little insight on reality when -This mailbox is full. Please try again later.-

Yup. She'd managed to find a hair in her food (and at this point, I wouldn't be at all surprised to find out it was one of hers) and call an unrelated restaurant and leave them a useless callback number. While this is certainly the easiest solution for me, I wish I could have been there when she discovers it's now a Klatch. I can only assume the emotions she'd go through would be pretty similar to Mulder at the end of any X-files.

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The ONE time I come home @ dawn they want me to come in early AND stay late. That'll teach me to hav

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Brilliant!

Let's try a little something here. Think of everything you know about Superman.

I'm going to assume you don't read any comics and can still tell me all about Metropolis and the Daily Planet, Lex Luthor and Lois Lane. Smallville probably comes to mind along with Krypton and Jor-El. Of course, there's the iconic costume.

Now try the same thing with Batman.

I know even my mom could list off three or four villains. The batcave, Alfred, Robin and Gotham City. 

DC has the big three heroes, known as the trinity. Let's finish it off here and think of everything Wonder Woman.

There was the TV show. And...um... an invisible jet. And while most non-readers know nothing about her, we all could easily pick her out of a lineup. At least we used to.

Wonder Woman # 600 came out last week and since I already had a stack of stuff I regularly read, I waited until today to pick it up. It's comprised of some easily accessible short stories and different artist portraits of her. It all builds to the ending story, the real meat, the tale that actually affects her and makes you want to buy #601. So a celebration of 600 comics in her own title and almost 70 YEARS of existence ends with them changing her costume. That's right, they took the one thing the world can agree on about Wonder Woman and threw it away.

I just noticed it looks like she isn't wearing shoes. Just tights with ankle bracelets, but I could be wrong. Personally I think this is a huge mistake, especially changing the bracelets. And the leather jacket doesn't give off a heroic vibe, more of a needless accessory to make the costume look more official or something. She looks more like a hooker from the pages of Sin City than an Amazonian princess.

And just to make sure this all goes wrong, they've changed her origin to explain the costume. Only DC could think of celebrating a character's success and longevity by throwing away all of that iconic garbage and starting over. Oh sure they tinkered with Supes (remember the electricity powers and the blue lightning suit?) and Batman's gone through some changes recently (Bruce is lost in time, Dick's in the suit and Bruce's illegitimate son is now Robin) but they have a much firmer foundation to build on and a much greater spot in the public conscious. WW will soon be back to her normal self to appease the few readers she has left and hopefully issue #700 won't be quite the disaster this is bound to be.

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