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09 Nov 2010
General Living • Little Things • Venting

To the point

I can remember a few years ago when we were planning our move across country that we were concerned with the house removal costs that we were going to have to spend.  It was really time consuming trying to get price quotes from all of the different companies that perform house removal services.  And it is hard to keep up with all of the fine print and terms and conditions.  There were several times when I would find a website that gave me the impression that I would get immediate rate quotes by filling out the form, and I fell victim to those sites more than once.  I wanted immediate quotes!

But most of those sites were a come-on where after I filled in all of the information required to get a quote, I would then get a screen that told me that company representatives would contact me to discuss it further.  That was so annoying!  I felt that I had given them all of the information that they needed, and the only reason that they wanted to call me was to give them the opportunity to use high-pressure sales tactics on me to close the deal with their company.  I’ve been having that kind of experience lately on a lot of other services too!  I hate those kinds of misleading sites!

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09 Nov 2010
Around Here • General Living • Little Things • Opinion • Venting

Some people are just plan obnoxious

My hubby and I were running errands in town today and we got hungry. We decided to go to the local Diner. The Diner has been a local icon for a very long time. I don’t go there very often, but I’ve never had a bad meal there. My hubby loves their food, and goes there frequently. So we decided to go and have lunch. On the doors and windows there are very obvious signs that advise the customers that they do not accept any form of payment other than cash. We sat behind a couple that were complaining that their food wasn’t up to their expectations. The waitress got them replacement meals, and followed up a few minutes later to ask them if the meal was OK. They said it was fine now.

A few minutes later, their replacement meals half-eaten, they asked for their check and tried to pay for their meal with a credit card. They complained that the replacement meals still weren’t good. The waitress explained that they had to pay by cash. They got very vocal and said that they didn’t have any cash. The waitress told them that there was an ATM in the entrance way. I didn’t hear it all, but there was a lot of pointing and loud voices on the part of the customers, and then they left (without paying) saying that they’d be back to pay for their meal. They drove away in a brand new Lexus. A few minutes later they returned and complained about the food again (and the cost) and paid their bill and loudly said they’d never be back.

Everyone else in the Diner told the waitress several times that we all thought the food was wonderful. We left her a pretty big tip, too.

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07 Oct 2010
Around Here • Entertainment/Fun • Little Things • Venting

Where is the Remote?

When I am cleaning up the living room, I always come across the remote in an odd place and have to put it on the TV stand. I don’t know why I seem to be the only one in the house capable of placing the remote on the TV stand where it belongs.

I don’t even like the remote. I can often just reach across tot he controls on the TV and take care of changing the channel or increasing the volume directly on the TV set rather than searching for the remote and then sitting on my duff pointing a little beam of light toward the cable box.

Today, I cannot find the remote at all. I have cleaned up and looked under everything.It’s not in the living room anywhere. No great loss to me, but I am sure hubby will be quite distressed later tonight when he wants to watch TV.

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02 Oct 2010
General Living • Home Improvement • Shopping • Venting

Making the Mailbox Permanent

I’ve been working on fixing and upgrading my kitchen and hubby is more interested in doing things outside. He handles all the yard work and keeps the driveway cleared of snow and ice over the winter months.

Right now he is interested in a project at the end of our driveway. He wants to build  a brick enclosure for a new locking mailbox. We’ve had to replace our standard metal mailbox on a wood post twice since we moved here. It seems that every once in a while some juvenile delinquents drive down the road late at night and bash in all the mailboxes, supposedly “for fun.”

At first, we just replaced the mailbox with another one just like it. We did that again, reluctantly, the second time. But this time, hubby is looking at locking mailboxes and encasing the box with bricks to foil those destructive kids. This is getting to be more than just a nuisance.

Although we’ve not had any trouble with people opening our mailbox and taking our mail, it occurred to us that the kids could easily do that while we are away at work or running errands. The only thing we can do to prevent that is to get lockable mailboxes and head them off before they can steal our mail, especially since the holidays are fast approaching and a lot of people are known to send gift cards, checks and money to friends and family at Christmas.

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22 Sep 2010
Around Here • General Living • Little Things • Money • Opinion • Venting

Why is it so hard to reach someone by phone?

I have been trying for several weeks now to catch several people on the phone to discuss things that are their business. I know that these people are busy but I really can’t see any excuse for never ever returning a call. I’m trying to make payment arrangements with them, don’t they want their money? I finally resorted to calling one guy’s secretary and booking an appointment for a telephone conference! But that is ten days away! I think that’s crazy – all I need is five minutes of their time! Well, I’m in no hurry to send him a check if he can’t be bothered returning my phone calls!

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