That was definitely my problem – my previous interactions with the insurance company had been pretty chill, and I wasn’t expecting them to fight back so hard on a problem that was completely beyond my control, so I gave up early and paid all of the costs myself. My last straw was when some supervisor-type from my local agent’s office called to explain why repair of the shattered door frame was a perfectly acceptable solution, and to imply that I was exaggerating the extent of the damage.
The number of hoops I had to jump through when I canceled my policies was impressive, as was the amount of mail I received from the agent’s office over the next year begging me to come back because of their awesome rates.
To fast-food restaurants doing pickup orders: stapling the bags completely shut, which many of you have been doing during Covid, does NOT accomplish anything useful!
We’re not under the illusion that employees didn’t handle our food (“sealed for your protection” per the old tagline), because we know they must. It just makes it harder to easily check before leaving and getting all the way home that the order is correct. And now it’s harder to reuse those otherwise handy large standing paper bags because of all the staples sticking out of it!
This. Therapists don’t know the Secret because… There is none. There’s just work to be done with mixed results, and unfortunately no way of making it magically disappear. Treatment does help in not bumping into it every waking minute, at least when it’s successful. But unmaking history is not on the cards.
This kind of hawking is comparable to the snake oil peddlers of yore, selling hope above everything else. I once heard a fellow doctor quip that not prostitution but this selling of hope is the oldest profession known to mankind. And since people will always be lured by the promise of a quick fix I don’t see an end to that anytime soon. Unfortunately.
I hate people and wish they would hie themselves off to the bowels of hell. Or at least just go away and not expect things of me. I need to install a punching bag next to my desk so I can take whacks at it when I’m annoyed.
When they quit doing the probe is the bad sign. When you get to the age that they figure something else will kill you before your prostate does you know it’s time to stop buying green bananas.
I ordered Bernie Sander’s mittens in early February for my daughter’s birthday from an ad I saw on Facebook. The were supposed to arrive within three business days. Well, my daughter’s bday, March 9, has come and gone and still the same old bullshit excuses that they sent the item but cannot send tracking information. Pretty sure it’s a scam, and I suppose I could have been out more than $26US, but still.
Thirty bucks is thirty bucks but daughters birthday is a much bigger deal.
I thought it would be entertaining to feed the birds so we could watch them. We put up bird feeders and I was happy. Until the birds started flying into our french doors and distressing me. I put decals in the panes, but that didn’t seem to help and I was still very distressed. Now we have opaque curtains which have stopped the birds from flying into the doors I used to watch the feeders from. I’m still feeding flocks of birds because I would feel guilty if I stopped.
Nice try, but I am not convinced: I need them outdoors and the spray cans in the video often are knocked over by the startled animals, so I would still have to get off my sofa to set them up again if I was at home or they would be out of order until I came back. And it cannot discriminate between pigeons and the birds I like.
Back in December, I ordered a rare CD from Amazon. It’s music that I’ve wanted for literally decades, and is simply unavailable anywhere else, in any format. It cost me over $50. Since then, there’s been an unspecified problem with the item, and I’ve been patiently waiting. As long as there’s ultimately a chance I can get it, I have no choice but to wait. But now, after three months, I’ve told the seller that if it can’t be sent I want a refund. Meanwhile I wait.
The irony of it all! You have to keep the curtains closed so the birds don’t fly into the window, and as a result you can’t even watch the birds which was the purpose in the first place.
In other news, I also ordered my daughter a baby Grogu off Amazon and it came promptly several weeks ago, plus we got her lots of other stuff. Bernie Mittens would have been cool though. Be wary where you order stuff from.
Good advice. I no longer ever order off of FaceBook, having been burned three times in a row out of three. Ever, never again off of FaceBook.
If you still are interested in Bernie mittens, Etsy.com would be a good place to look, checking the reviews of any seller carefully of course. Hope you get her mittens eventually.
If I see something interesting advertised on FB I can usually find it on Amazon cheaper. Unless it’s an absolute scam like the 100# bronze dragon fountain for $80. That’s $200 worth of bronze before being cast.