It’s been raining all week, but that’s not my rant. My rant is that I’d like to throat-punch every stupid MFer that thinks they don’t need to have their headlights (or any lights) on when it’s raining. I just about got t-boned this morning making a left turn in a construction zone – the guy coming the other way had no lights on, and I couldn’t see him until he was right on top of me.
(Coincidentally, it was almost exactly two years ago that my wife got t-boned in my previous car by a car she couldn’t see while making a left turn.)
A lot of modern cars (including my car, I love my little car) have the option for automatic lights. They are basically on all the time but dim/brighten based on ambient light. So when it starts raining and it gets darker, my headlights automatically brighten.
I wonder if you’re dealing with people who have older cars, or who for some idiotic reason don’t use the automatic lights feature.
My gf’s car and truck have automatic headlights. If I’m driving her vehicle for some reason I’m always a bit confused at first by this. My Jeep Wrangler has old fashioned headlights that need to be turned on. But Pennsylvania has a relatively recent law that if your wipers are running, your lights have to be on.
They’re not older vehicles. They’re idiot drivers who have their lights turned off instead of on auto, and don’t have the sense to know when to turn them on. (Hint: look at every other car on the road!)
Yeah, my kid handed it to me while I was changing my clothes and for some reason I thought that would be a good place to set it down. I am usually unaware when I do something like this. If I didn’t have the Find My Phone feature I’m not sure I would have ever found it.
(I left the oven on too. This day is going much better so far!
Congrats! Another fun part is that the pill that helps you remember to do things requires you to remember to take a pill every day.
I think we’re getting the transportation logistics sorted. The wheels of change are turning fast. They are going to call to schedule the assessment for ABA tomorrow. This could be happening really soon.
I am swamped by work deadlines right now so I’m hoping to spend all day tomorrow with my nose to the grindstone. I’m really bad at prioritization so I’m doing them in the order of “which thing am I most freaked out about?” The most stressful thing gets done first, deadlines be damned. That way I feel my anxiety decrease as I get stuff done.
Grrrrr! I should be feeling virtuous because I just finished paying a bunch of bills, but instead I’m just mad with the kind righteous fury that only dealing with incompetents can ignite.
I didn’t get one of my credit card statements (more likely, I did and absentmindedly misplaced it somewhere) but I could see my transaction list and current balance through online banking. The total owing seemed higher than I could account for by the listed purchases so I called the CC call center for an explanation.
After about a 15-minute wait (fortunately I have a speakerphone) when a CSR did come on I knew immediately from the heavily accented clueless sounding voice that this was going to be trouble. I know for a fact that the bank’s call centers are domestic, and in fact the VISA center is fairly local, so there’s no excuse for someone who can barely speak English.
The real problem wasn’t the accent – I really have no problem with accents as long as they’re comprehensible – it was the utter lack of basic intelligence. I must have spent half an hour on the phone with this twit who did not seem to comprehend my very basic question, and kept repeating things I already knew, such as how much I had just paid. I really did lose it and ended up saying things like “you’ve told me that five times now” and “I give up”.
The only good that came out of it was that in desperation I opted for the e-statement option so I could see my statements online. As soon as I saw my actual statement it took me about two seconds to understand the discrepancy. This twit who is supposed to be a CSR trained to support a premium credit card could have spent the whole day on the phone and not given me an answer.
What the fuck is up with people who pull up to the gas pump, fill their tank, then go into the place to (apparently) do their week’s shopping, leaving their cars sitting in the pump area instead of moving it to the parking area? Meanwhile, those of us who shop at a grocery store like normal people are sitting out there waiting for them to come back and move their goddamned car out of the way so we can just gas up and go.
I see that behavior far too often at the fueling stations. Adding more “fuel” to my anger, is when they finally get back to their vehicles, get in and do…nothing. Nothing as in fiddle about with their phones, scratch off lottery tickets, or have BS conversations with their passengers. Sometimes I can see them eyeballing me in their review mirrors as if wanting to make sure I’m well aware that they’re aware they’re holding things up, just waiting for me to give a small toot with my horn so that they can use it as a trigger for them to get violent.
That isn’t passive aggressive; it’s aggressive aggressive.
Further to the previous rant, I note that having my credit card statement glowing at me on my big monitor makes it more prominent and easier to read than paper, so I notice things I didn’t pay much attention to before. Like the fact that all my spending is neatly categorized, it keeps a running total of year-to-date spending in each category, and even compares it against any budget I may have set.
So I’m looking at the year-to-date spending, and holy Hannah! My wine and liquor spending! Jesus H. Christ on a pogo stick!! To put it in order-of-magnitude perspective, we’re talking “lease on a new Mercedes” level.
I see that too and it pisses me off. I’m rarely at the pump for more than a couple of minutes. Pumping gas isn’t hard and doesn’t take long if you aren’t fucking around.
It’s especially infuriating when for some reason most of the pumps are out of order and they’re using up one of only a couple that are in operation.
I took a more careful look at the seal on my freezer while clearing some of the contents and it looks like there may be a gap on the one side which would be causing the heavy frosting. I had looked online and in addition to finding information on checking for things like a blocked drain I found a place I can order a replacement seal - for $213!
I think this is largely dependent on where you live. I grew up in a rural area, this is just how you do things. The odds of you blocking someone from getting gas are small. Or at least that was the case in the 90s.
When I moved to New Jersey that was an adjustment for me. Of course in Jersey they pump your gas for you. That’s an adjustment all on its own.
I now live in the Detroit Metro area and I wouldn’t leave my car at the pump here, either. There are simply too many cars.
Ohhh. The worst offender I have ever seen was someone that pulled up right in front of the grocery store, near the doors right in the crosswalk. Parked and went inside. I was right behind them. He came right back out, said sorry, I forgot my wallet, and went back inside.
Left his car there, blocking everything.
I was in an '84 CJ7. Pretty much designed to get beat up. Was VERY tempted to let my foot slip off the clutch. And then say ‘Sorry’ as I drove away.
That whole situation completely befuddled me. Um, what?
Most often when I fill up, either locally or on a road trip, there are several empty pumps, and I don’t feel at all guilty about leaving my car at the pump while I run in quickly to grab something or use the restroom. But if it’s busy enough that there is or could be anyone waiting, yeah, I’ll move to the parking area first.
