Steven's Blunders

That picture has nothing to do with the stories I'm about to embark on - but isn't it cute! So we went to see Wicked today (which for those who don't know it is the prequel to The Wizard of Oz) and it was amazing! I would totally recommend it to anyone who can get tickets. And in fact getting tickets is what spawned this next story about my husband.

So Steven is quite a smart guy - very good with words and very rarely does he get himself into situations that are uncomfortable or embarrassing....but when he does they are always hilarious!
This time it involves getting Wicked tickets.

Blunder #1: So - we found two good tickets on Ebay and decided we had to go since this show has been all the rage for at least two years. So we splurged and waited for them to show up in the mail. We waited...and waited...and waited. Finally after 8 days we were getting concerned, especially since they were supposed to be shipped overnight. So Steven starts to contact our seller. He sends several messages through Ebay to no avail. He then searches through receipts and finds his email address and starts to email him regularly. We get no response. This goes on for several days. As time passes the emails begin to take a harsher tone until finally he emails him and says, "If you are a thief, I'm going to get my money back. If you are a idiotic moron who doesn't check his account, you should be more careful." At this point I am standing behind him going, "Sweetie you probably shouldn't call him a moron." To which the rhetorician replies, "I didn't call him a moron, I choose my words very carefully, I said IF you're a moron." Either way he sends the email. He even searches for this guy on google and finds out that he is a very respected government official of a huge cooperation! Not only that, he was on the 9-11 commission! On this site he finds his cell phone number and actually attempts to call him. Luckily for us, he doesn't answer. Not on the first, second, third,.....or sixth time. A couple days later Steven gets an email from his email account apologizing. The emailer (our buyer's son...who is actually a III no less) informs us that his father has been in a severe skiing accident and that he is in the hospital and now is the first time that he could get into his father's Ebay account. Um....silence.....

Blunder #2: We were walking into our local NYC drugstore looking for dental floss. We spend quite a long time debating over the best type and looking through the numerous brands and styles. We settle on our type and Steven heads to the register. I call him back laughing because after all that, the wrong style was under the label and therefore he had the wrong one. He picks up the right one and heads to the check out counter. He stares at the cashier who appears to be looking over his shoulder (he assumes that she is looking at me still laughing..but I am in fact no longer there or even laughing). He stares harder to which she replies, "Why you lookin at me like that?" Steven says, "Excuse me." She repeats herself saying, "Why you looking at me funny?" Finally my husband, the rhetoric teacher, says, "Why are you looking over my shoulder." She doesn't reply, rings up the floss, and he walks away. As I look at him in confusion over the interaction at the register, I ask him what was wrong. Yea...she had a lazy eye. And go figure, next time we went there...guess who checked him out!

Here are some cute pics of our friend Mary and Steven to treat yourself to after that long post!