Great mysteries of the week

I ran into a couple of unique situations during my weekend. Since then, one has been solved, but there is one that is an unsolved mystery (tm).

• The Contact Lens Fluid Incident. During my weekly shopping at Wal-Mart (yes, Wal-Mart, want to fight about it?), among my purchases was a bottle of contact lens cleaner. Everything scanned fine, but the contact lens fluid kept coming up "restricted item." The cashier attempted to assist, but also met with failure. She called back to the pharmacy, who said that I could try scanning it back there.. but whoops, they're at lunch and won't be back for another 30 minutes. Score one for customer service. I couldn't buy a bottle of contact lens fluid, and everyone was clueless as to why. As it turns out, I looked up the brand online, and there was a news story that stated the exact fluid I was trying to buy had been pulled off the shelves by the FDA only the day before, citing that there is a slight chance the fluid may be connected with some rare viral infection. This Wal-Mart just didn't get the memo I suppose.
• Phone calls from 000-000-0000. I was bombarded with phone calls on Wednesday from a phone number displaying on my caller id as 000-000-0000. I don't answer calls from numbers I don't know, so I let it ring. On occasion, they would leave a voicemail, and typically it was dead air. Sometimes I heard faint noises in the background. Soon I began picking up and then hanging up immediately. Eventually I had to turn my ringer off. Finally I got fed up and called my phone company. The bonehead on the other line proceeded to repeat my opening statement about 3 times, and never actually seemed to acknowledge what I was trying to say. I said I doubted he could block the calls, but at least he could report it. Nope. No comprendo. Eventually he said he couldn't do anything, so I politely said, "Okay, so I'll continue to receive harassing phone calls the rest of the night, thanks" and hung up.

Luckily the phone calls stopped the next day. I Google'd the problem and couldn't come up with anything solid. Most likely, it was some kind of telemarketer, or worse, some kind of scam. Since I never actually talked to anyone I not sure. Whoever it was was extremely tenacious. It was quite irritating.

There are many other things that are a mystery to me, but that's another blog post. For now, I'll sit and wonder about the clueless Wal-Mart employees, and the person with the 000-000-0000 phone number.