Fun on the BaRou Citysearch

Just before I moved here, we all had a chuckle in one post's comments section (I can't find it now, lay off) because the editor of the Baton Rouge Citysearch page revealed on their home page that french fries dipped in a milkshake were her favorite treat. I suspected this website was an untapped wealth of further amusement, but hadn't explored it further.

I turned to that Citysearch on Friday because my trusty old laptop has some mysterious virus that plays the beginning few seconds of Madonna's "Lucky Star" more and more frequently througout the day (for real) and my old machine is now running even slower. I was sposedta inherit the bf's much newer laptop when he got his newest one, but right before we moved, the one I was going to get got knocked to the floor and now the monitor's effed. (That's not it above, but that's what the monitor is doing.) So I wanted to call a computer repair place to see if anything could be done.

At the front and center of the home page, Citysearch has a list called "Popular in Your Neighborhood" and holding it down at the number one spot was a funeral home. I really don't think I'm imagining the morbid undercurrent of this town. And now the editor is on about how bikini season is over so we can all pig out on--what is it we ladies all live for?--CHOCOLATE! What's the next topic going to be? Let me guess: It's the holiday season and you know what that means--SHOPPING! And then, it's the Valentine's season, and that means LOVE, JEWELRY, and MORE CHOCOLATE! And it'll still be three months until bikini season!

So anyway, then I did a search for "computer repair." The first listing I checked out had two user reviews written in the same broken English. Next! The second place, I called [Redacted] Computer Repair and reached a home answering machine of the [Redacted] residence. Next! Because of that, I X'd another business with the phrase "In House" in its name. Finally I called another place and reached a kindly old Southern lady whose voice, I have to admit, was comforting but didn't exactly instill confidence in her technological expertise. She took down my number and said she'd get back to me on Monday, as it takes a while to research the options.

I thought I might have just reached another private residence and she talked to me because she's lonely. Well, I'm kind of lonely too and she sounded really sweet. I hoped she'd call back and maybe share a good pecan pie recipe with me. When she called, she said they had some options and to bring in the laptop when a certain guy was in, and they'd see if they had a fit and would quote me a price, no charge or obligation, then she gave me full directions on how to get there from where I lived. Now, that's the kind of down-home service I like. Not the kind that's actually in some stranger's home.