I take my Honda to the Honda service place. It’s more expensive, but I just feel better that way. Last time I went I got free, unsolicited advice about which new Honda engines were causing users trouble. Mine was a good year, apparently. It was useful because my husband’s driving a 2008 Civic and we’re curious how long it’s going to hang on but it could die at any moment.
My Aunt’s 1996 Honda Odyssey is still going, so you never know.
Of course, I just went in and had my 36,000 mile service thing done, and not a week later the air pressure indicator popped on. Sigh.
I just found out that a very critical hair care product can no longer be shipped to this whole entire country. What am I supposed to do? Nothing else works on my very demanding hair! The brand is available in stores near me, but not this product. I hate trying to find new hair products. I just want to buy something that I know is going to work.
Yes, even I know how to do this. Ethernet cables are well below rocket science in complexity.
The complexity is… I live in an outside cottage. The owner does not want cables laid - I have tried to convince her - but I think a repeater is the only option. I have a wifi modem,… somewhere… possibly at my brother’s house, and I am capable of doing the necessary to set up an extended wifi net
I wish to report, in a sort of mild anti-rant, that I’m back from my appointment after making a stop at my favourite little deli which happened to be on the way back, and though it’s damned hot it wasn’t really all that bad. Fortunately the appointment was for 8:30 AM so even after my grocery stop I was back in my wonderfully cool domicile while the temperature was still rapidly climbing. It’s supposed to hit at least 36°C today (that’s about 97° 'Murrican). There was a great amount of talk on the radio about providing cooling relief for students – I thought school was out for the summer but apparently there’s still a few days to go. Most schools have air conditioning in only some areas, and not in most classrooms.
Speaking of my visit to the deli, it’s a small-ish place and there was only one checkout lane open at that time of the morning. Normally that wouldn’t be a problem, but there was an elderly lady in front of me who really tried my patience. I can hardly claim to have a problem with elderly ladies as I’m no spring chicken myself, but this particular old bat got into an intensive conversation with the cashier about something to do with the card reader, both of them murmuring to each other and poking at the thing, then looking mystified and poking some more with more murmuring. I swear they were at it for nearly 20 minutes. If I was king I’d make a law that old bats past a certain age would need to pass a test of checkout-lane competence before being allowed to roam loose.
Yeah that is a bit much. Old people have to survive in this world just like the rest of us and it gets progressively more difficult as everything these days is “do it yourself” with little assistance.
How about the store clerks take on the responsibility of getting people taken care of as well as helping the person with issues?
Open another register?
Call a manager?
20 minutes is way too long for this and is the store’s responsibility for the most part.
Yeah, I was taking it pretty close to the edge there. If it’s any consolation, I’d have the same reaction to a huge delay caused by an Old Fart of the male persuasion such as myself exhibiting an equal level of incompetence. I was venting due to the high level of frustration. Sorry, didn’t mean to cause offense.
We got back Saturday with a U-Haul full of furniture from my father’s house, plus my son’s apartment. We can no longer fit a car in our garage, and the loft and my temporary office are stuffed to the gills. Also on the way out to Raleigh, I-40 washed out again. Luckily, we had a late start, otherwise we could have been washed out with it.
Agreed but sadly very few merchants feel much responsibility any more, even less from their underpaid bored frontline employees who would much rather be looking at their phones.
Apology accepted. Been there, done that. If it hadn’t been from an admired poster I enjoy as much as I do you I wouldn’t have risked poking back, which I realized is as ass backwards a compliment one Old Fart can offer another Old Fart.
I got a letter from Social Security regarding my survivor benefit payments. I’m due benefits back to September 2024. I received a payment about a week ago which was suppose to be all of my back benefits, but it was a lot less the amount I should have been due. The letter said that back Medicare premiums had been taken out of the payment, but even adding the amount they claimed to be deducting to the amount they were paying it’s nowhere near the amount I should be due.
So I just got off the phone with my local office, and the rep agreed that the numbers didn’t add up. Part of the confusion seemed to be related to the fact that I had been entitled to Medicare when I turned 65 in August 2017, and had been making quarterly premium payments until this April. When I was awarded survivor benefits, for some reason they decided to set me up with a new Medicare account, and somehow I was not given credit for the premiums I had paid on the initial account.
So the local rep is going to send a correction request to the payment center in Chicago. He said something about doing so at a manager level, which from my recollection of procedures when I worked at the Chicago payment center means it will get priority treatment. He also said it might take 4-8 weeks to get this resolved due to staffing shortages (thank you Elon/Trump/whoever).
We bought a new dishwasher in March after trying to get the previous one (which was only 4 years old) repaired and have those attempts fail.
The control panel on the new one now has a crack in it where the Cancel button is, and the whole thing has become slightly wavy, like the glue holding it on is failing. I purchased an extended warranty for this one, not something I’d normally do. Glad I did since I might be having to use it!
I don’t plan on contacting them for this alone; the panel isn’t even visible when the door is shut, but it concerns me that the buttons may actually stop working, which in that case they’ll be getting a call.
What am I supposed to do? Nothing else works on my very demanding hair! The brand is available in stores near me, but not this product. I hate trying to find new hair products. I just want to buy something that I know is going to work.
