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In this comic, Randall notes that package tracking, as provided by many shipping companies like UPS and FedEx, is helpful as customers can know the status of their package. However, people tend to refresh the package tracking page every few minutes in their impatience to know the status of their package, which drives them crazy, as noted here. | In this comic, Randall notes that package tracking, as provided by many shipping companies like UPS and FedEx, is helpful as customers can know the status of their package. However, people tend to refresh the package tracking page every few minutes in their impatience to know the status of their package, which drives them crazy, as noted here. | ||
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| + | The title text here refers to various 'of the month' clubs (fruit, cheese, wine etc) that one might be signed up for as a gift but never really want anything to do with. This, combined with the ease by which a person can track the package creates a strange dichotimy whereby you don't really want the package, but can't stop checking where it is 'just because you can'. | ||
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Revision as of 03:14, 23 July 2013
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 Title text: I don't even *want* this package! Why did I join the stinging insect of the month club, anyway? |
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In this comic, Randall notes that package tracking, as provided by many shipping companies like UPS and FedEx, is helpful as customers can know the status of their package. However, people tend to refresh the package tracking page every few minutes in their impatience to know the status of their package, which drives them crazy, as noted here.
The title text here refers to various 'of the month' clubs (fruit, cheese, wine etc) that one might be signed up for as a gift but never really want anything to do with. This, combined with the ease by which a person can track the package creates a strange dichotimy whereby you don't really want the package, but can't stop checking where it is 'just because you can'.
Transcript
- [Megan is sitting at a computer.]
- *refresh*
- Megan: Aww, still in Memphis.
- *refresh*
- Megan: Aww, still in Memphis.
- *refresh*
- Megan: Aww, still in Memphis.
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