I called my oh so very favorite company in the world today to file a claim on my camera. USAA is really just the best thing in the world. If you qualify for an account with them and you are not taking advantage of it you are really missing out (sorry folks military only). The customer service is just top notch. Really, it’s the best ever! And you all know how critical I am of customer service since it’s kind of what I did for oh 10 years so that is saying a lot. Anyway, they told me that I had to have a full diagnostic ran on my camera by a Canon authorized service center. So I call Canon and guess what? I get to mail my camera to California. Sigh. So I have to box up one of the things that I love most in life, mail it half way accross the country and wait, 7-10 days. Then I get the official report. Can it be fixed and how much will it cost. Then I have to go back to USAA and get authorization for them. Then I get to wait for my camera to get fixed. Then I have to wait for it to be mailed back to me. So maybe, if Santa Claus thinks I was a good girl this year, I will have my camera back before Christmas. So there goes Gavin’s 6 month pictures. There goes the Christmas pictures and the Christmas cards that I had planned on making this year. No Thanksgiving Day pictures…not that it’s the first Thanksgiving that I am going to get to spend with my family in 3 years or anything. Why don’t I have another camera? I wonder if my husband would divorce me if I went and bought a new ‘back up’ camera. I mean all professional photographers need a back up camera for situations like this. Right? The silver lining is that I have insurance. I am not out a $1000 camera. It will get fixed and I will get it back or I will get a new one.
Tomorrow I am drowning my sorrows over a burrito at Chipotle.
