Holidays Schmolidays, November's Hot Garbage (mini-rant thread)

The BBQ Pit
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fuck cars and their lyin bastard dealerships … fuck California bank and trust and fuck the season in general

Last week after my cousin took my aunt to her weekly bowling outing (her grandson is in a league and she watches) on the way home the car a 2008 ford focus bogged down to where she couldn’t get to shift and it and it didn’t go over 20 miles an hour

cousin took it to his mechanic and they want 2600 for a new transmission about 500 more than the other places I called … But aunt said she might have a warranty at the Toyota dealer

I called the dealer and supposedly they have a “drive forever” that all used cars Toyota are supposed to have or so the 3 people I talked to about it …

So I asked a supervisor to check my aunts contract to make sure it had that warranty … according to them it doesn’t and they’d prefer we take it to the ford dealer since supposedly they don’t have what’s necessary to fix it…

My aunt has been pissed off since Wednesday since this is the time of the year she looks forward to most … (she starts planning it out and shopping in JULY and since were short on funds this year in the first place…) Shes been grizzly grouchy as a bear that woke in in December

And to make it worse her IHSS check is a week later than normal and she coul;dnt change the payment arrangement we made to keep the cable on so she had to use a card she was saving for Christmas and bills are due tomorrow… and we have to bring the car home tomorrow form the mechanics place … yeah tomorrow is gonna be a joyous pile of drizzling shit

Oh and did I mention all the family who said a week ago “oh well help and give ya a ride” and all that bs and when she called and politely reminded them of that they had 5 million excuses or cant your son and them help ect … So fuck then sideways anally with a cholla cactus too

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Monthly rant titles are lame, a bit OK with ‘April showers bring glowers’, but it was downhill ever since.

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well personally id of been ok with it being fuck the holidays and all the bullshit they ride in on but mr zotti sent me a note ableit very nice one when I tried that title 10 (or more) years ago

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Rick Kitchen, oh my gosh. I have an elderly mom and I’d be worried sick in your shoes. Does your mom have a regular doctor? It seems to me she should be on medications for the pain and nausea. She doesn’t need to be vomiting and getting dehydrated. I hope you can get her in tomorrow.

I wish you could stay in a different motel. Crap. :frowning:

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Kiss my ass. You know when the new months start. Put up or shut up.

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Have we done “Now is the Winter of our MiniRants”?

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Do you realize we’ve been doing monthly minirant threads since at least 2009?

And a search on minirants turned up sporadic threads back at least to 2005.

Anyone OCD enough to compile a list of all our titles?

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Depends: will you pay, if I do invoice?

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Now that’s good. Short, solid pun on a classic line.
Doesn’t reference a specific month, but could work for December.

Set your alarm for Nov. 30th, 11:59 pm…

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Mother is still ill. Surprisingly, a doctor is actually going to COME TO THE HOUSE to see her in a bit.

The company who told me Saturday that they can’t send somebody out to fix our furnace until today is now telling me, “Oh, we don’t do that type of furnace.” Then why didn’t they tell me that Saturday and I could have looked around?

So now several heating repair places are telling me that they don’t deal with stand alone furnaces, at all. It’s like we’re in the dark ages, I guess. I did find one company that said they can do it, but they can’t get us in till tomorrow. Until I begged and pleaded and they are sending somebody out this afternoon. Considering the way things are going, he’ll probably tell us he can’t fix it.

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So. Over two weeks ago, I signed a contract for new hardwood floors through most of my condo (except bathrooms + kitchen). 10% down of the $13,000 cost. One of their selling points is same week or even next day installation, but I opted for after the Thanksgiving holiday week, to have time to clean out all the bookshelves + closets.

Friday, they called to verify I was still on for today, and after I gave the ok, they said “Great! Everything’s ready; see you Monday 8-10am. We’ll give a courtesy call to let you know we’re coming.”

Today, got up early to move the last of the stuff. And waited. And waited. No show, no call. Finally, at noon, I called. Customer service verified today was installation day, read the update and quoth “Well, that makes no sense.” Please hold. And hold. And hold.

Finally, the installation supervisor comes on the line. Seems that my flooring wasn’t on the truck from Chicago this morning. The status from Chicago indicated it wasn’t in stock, no idea when it would be in stock. He’d sent an email asking what was up. That was the status.

So, I’d taken three days off work, moved half the house into the basement, and had wasted half a day waiting for them to get off their asses and let me know there was a problem. No, they had no resolution. No, they didn’t know when they would. Yes, I’d have to schedule three more days off at some nebulous time in the future, to get the damn floor in. I mentioned I’d placed the order - and given them money - weeks ago, and they’d verified it on Friday. Oh, yes, that’s true. I mentioned they should have maybe called me to tell me all this crap. Oh, yes, that’s true too.

So sorry, they’ll let me know when they know more. Fuckers. Once this floor is in, I’m going on a neg review cavalcade.

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Which time zone? :wink:

My rant du jour; a while back, I was looking to redo my strawberry patch, and found a really good bulk deal on strawberry plants. Way too many for me, but it worked out at something like 30p a plant, rather than about £1.50. I found two other people I don’t really know but who are at my allotment site who were also after strawberry plants, and agreed to split an order.

Sent it in, and sat back to await my plants.

And waited…

So yeah, they’ve not delivered, it’s 27 days since I ordered (their advertised max delivery time is 28) and it’s not been posted yet. In the extremely unlikely event that they did post tomorrow it’d a) get stuck in all the Christmas post so would probably be DOA, and b) be too frosty to actually plant them.

I’m going to have to cancel the order, hope I actually get my money back, contact the other two people and apologise, plus I won’t get strawberries next year (or at least, not many, as spring plantings don’t establish as well). Bah.

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Give the company an appropriate review.

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Eddy is my new cat. I’ve had him since May, and he’s turned out to be the laid-back lap cat I’d been hoping for.

Except he parks himself on my chest, not my lap. Do you have any idea how hard it is to breathe when there’s 10 pounds of cat on top of your lungs?

He just put his paw over my arm to keep it in place so he can have someplace to rest his chin. <melts>

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OK, Morgyn, where are the pictures? Do the rules mean nothing to you?

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You know who made up that rule? ME, that’s who!

This is Eddy. The other cat you see sharing the couch back with him in the last few pictures is Shiva.

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What a big bunch of cuddly awesomeness!

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I used to have a “chest” cat, but he was small. My current kittehs don’t lie on any part of me. I miss that.

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Stupid Windstream. Why in the world is there no way for you to tell me about scheduled outages? Yeah, it’s just a minor inconvenience, but it still was quite frustrating spending all that time trying to get my Internet working, just to finally be able to call and find out that they’d scheduled an upgrade in my area. And then, suddenly after I call, it starts working again.

I’m not asking much, just send an email ahead of time. Why else even give me an email.

Here’s hoping the “upgrade” means we can finally get full speed of 12Mbps.

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Windstream Sucks!!

We’ve gone through the exact same type of thing, and no, after “upgrades” speed is never any better.

When my previous phone company was taken over by Shitstream, most people did not realize a change was taking place. The first phone bill people received from the new company was largely ignored, because it looked like junk mail (they tried to send a “welcome” Mail along with the bill).