The Embarrassed Entrepreneur

Yes, that would describe ME this morning.
I'm sitting at my desk working away (well, working some, blogging some, surfing some.... typical Tuesday morning....) and I think to myself "Gee, my office line hasn't rung once this morning."

So, I pick it up. It's dead. Dead, dead, dead. Hmmm. Weird.

I walk down the hall into my bedroom and pick up our residential phone. Dead.

I walk downstairs and ask my son (who is blissfully playing "WWE Smackdown" on his PS 2), "Did you do something weird to the phones?" He doesn't even turn around. "Nope."

I go back upstairs and into my daughter's room where she is still slumbering underneath a mountain of stuffed animals. I gently rouse her and say "Did you do something weird to the phones?" She looks at me like I'm an apparition appearing in her dream and says "Mom, I'm still asleep!"

So, I call the phone company. (By this time I'm somewhat irritated.... after all, Important Clients could be calling with BIG ORDERS!!) I explain that Something Has Happened and we don't have phone service.

And the very nice woman on the phone brings up my account and tells me I haven't paid my bill since April.

Whoops. (hee hee)
Silly me.