Last night I got chewed out by a customer for asking her to please not put her $120 in cash on the conveyor belt because the conveyor belt occasionally eats things, and we typically don’t get those things back in one piece. Never going to happen, she knows what she’s doing, if it happens it’s her problem not ours…
Oh, sure - that’s what the lady who lost a $50 doing that a few years ago said…until she got her bill back as confetti. Then, suddenly, it was all our fault… :rolleyes:
Seriously, I’m trying to keep you from losing $120 and suddenly you’re pissed at me? WTF?
(So far, I’ve personally witnessed the register belts eat a placemat and a quarter. We managed to get the placemat back (only partially swallowed) but the quarter made an awful noise going through the machinery and didn’t do the conveyor any good, either.)
‘Well, no ma’am. You haven’t paid us until you put it in my hand or scan your card. If you set it on the belt and it gets destroyed or stolen, you still have not paid yet.’
That’s really about as bright as running your card, it gets rejected and you say ‘That’s not MY problem, I TRIED to pay you!’
Pretty sure neither company management nor the police are going to agree that allowing your money to be swallowed by the conveyor belt, after being warned about it by the clerk, that it is the store’s problem and you ‘paid’.
I think the customer should have to dip into their wallet again and pay… then the clerk should get to stay after closing time and fish the $120 out from under the belt (ignoring the pile of severed fingers and rat droppings). And take it home.
It’s not the rat droppings, it’s two dimensional rodents. And those bags of Easter grass? Think dust covered Spanish moss, hanging from everything. Like SwampThing’s lair.
Typical for February, it snowed a bunch on Saturday, then on Sunday it all melted. The fucking snow cost me $125.00. That’s how much they charge to plow my parking lot at work, and this time of year they rush to plow before it melts.
None of the plowing companies around here will plow without a season contract, and that contract allows them to set up parameters on when they plow. So I pay for about 2X the number of plowing so then I’d like.
it ought to work like that in reverse too. I had a pharmacy put $5 loose in one of those drawer things, when it blew out. She just looked at me and said can’t you go get it?
I pit the asshole who hit my car in early January and is lying about it. He pulled out from the curb without looking and WHAM, he hit me in the right front fender and also took out the side mirror. He was all nice at first and told me he had great insurance. I called them the next day and gave a statement. Long story short, he LIED and said he was parallel parking and I hit HIM. He filed a claim against MY insurance company! There weren’t any witnesses. It was a bus zone, why was he “parallel parking” in a bus zone?? I did file an accident report and he hasn’t contacted either my insurance company or his own since the accident. In the meantime, I’ve been recorded three times giving the same story a few weeks apart each time. I think it will go my way in arbitration, but I still have to pay my deductible for now, at least. My insurance company has been great and they shouldn’t have to pay, either. Anyway, it’s all been so dragged out because of his assholery. I finally took my car in this morning to get all pretty again.
This is the car the SDMB helped me buy last fall. I’d only had it two months. I just wanted a little car to run around locally as my car died for good and we have a newer SUV for longer trips, but it’s a gas hog, and my mom also has trouble getting in and out of it. I also hate parking it. I got a Nissan Sentra. I wasn’t wild about it at first and figured well, it will do the job, but now I LOVE it. It’s cute, fun, easy on gas, perfect for driving my mom around, and is just a great little car. Then that scumbag ran into it. Fortunately, it’s all minor, but it’s still $2,000 in damage. I’m trying to look on the bright side. The repair place is going to fix the saggy door for nothing, it will get an alignment that it needed anyway, and they’re also going to touch up some other scratches since they’ll have the paint.
But still. I want that guy to pay, somehow.
My rental is an Impala. It’s a very nice car, but my gosh, it’s an ocean liner. It’s wider than our SUV. It’s pretty cool that it has wifi, but I’ll never get the thing parked!
I had a car in the shop onetime for a minor thing. The idiot they hired to move cars around as the mechanic needed backed a big old truck into my little car. So the dealership insurance was brought into the mix… That idiot lied and said crap about how my car was already banged up. C.C.tv told the truth, though. Thanks to my insurance company for thinking outside the box.
Is it an older model? Mine is 2014 when they updated the model, and it’s got a backup camera with parking guides plastered onto the view. Parallel parking is still somewhat annoying, but otherwise parking is easy now.
… Except, as it turns out, that the backup guides go out when the stabilitrack (system for driving stability) goes out. And that goes out when the power steering goes out. Which, in turn, gets knocked out when the retaining ring of a wheel bearing cracks, because of course the ABS sensors should knock out power steering.
Which is why I had to take a vacation day, to get all that fixed. And also an oil change, and turned out the battery needed replaced. Sheesh.
Even worse, the “cold” I had over the weekend is now obviously the flu, so I wasted a vacation day I probably wouldn’t have gone into work for anyway, what with the fever and croaking voice.
But even in my cough-syrup addled state, parking was easy.
Lightray, it’s a 2017, but Mr. Helena and I have figured out that it’s some kind of fleet version. It doesn’t have the backup camera, navigation, or remote or electronic start which from Googling look to be standard otherwise. It’s still a pretty nice car, but I like bells and whistles.
This :coughCOUGHcough: can go away :COUGH: at any time. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out :coughCOUGHcough:
Seriously, my prescription with the good stuff isn’t touching it in any way, shape, or form. I can barely speak. I have to be careful when I eat or else I’m liable to spew :coughCOUGHcough:
Yikes: Impala with no backup camera would be super annoying. The rear view is very restricted because there’s so much trunk space. Without the backup cam I’d be afraid of mowing down toddlers every time I backed up! I can’t imagine how the heck did that passed safety regs.
Impalas have always been huge boats (my grandmother had one in the 70s). Back up cameras have only been around for a comparatively short time. I assure you that parallel parking was a thing in the 70s. As was avoiding toddler-squashing.
Switching genders randomly through the letter wouldn’t put you on my good side. Sticking a capital in the middle of my name, which you are either copying or copypasting from a text, and in direct contravention of the rules of our common language, is clear evidence of a serious problem with details. Mails like yours make me happy I’ve already got my new job.
Fucking QC your spelling.
kiz, try Strepsils. I was popping them one after another, but they worked.
And does anybody know why my mouse isn’t working in this window? glares at the mouse
If you have the time of the collision, maybe a merchant on that block has a record of him making a transaction BEFORE he allegedly tried parallel parking.
Be kinda nice to be able to catch a dirtbag in a lie, right?
So, after four days of flu misery, I finally made a dr appt. Not because I think there’s something they could do to help the flu, but because it seemed like I was heading toward pneumonia again, and I’ve done the flu-to-pneumonia thing one too many times.
Except, of course, in the mere hours since I made the appointment, my fever broke, aches died down, and even the coughing has gotten better. Now I’ll have to cancel and pay the less-than-24-hrs-notice fee. Damn flu.
At least I did find out my doc switched practices; would have made my next appointment awkward. Apparently they’re “trying to catch up” on sending out notifications.
It was at the Seattle VA and I did ask them if there was video. They don’t have surveillance cameras in that area (or anywhere else that I can tell). Thanks for the suggestion, though.
Yeah, I could use a backup camera with this Impala. It has quite a long trunk and the back window is so angled that there isn’t much visibility at all. It’s a very comfortable ride and I sure like the power, but I still have trouble parking and unparking it. At least we’re getting exercise since I’ve been parking in BFE where I have at least two spaces to maneuver! I also miss the 26mpg I was getting with the Sentra. But for a long trip it would be SO comfortable.
Missy (the cat) and Karen (the human housekeeper) are having territorial issues and I am the only the other human who seems to notice it happening. Its hysterical, even if it is a little inconvenient.
Our cats aren’t allowed on any flat surfaces except the floor. They can lay on the arms of chairs, but not on the end tables. They can be on seat cushions but not on tables, etc. They get the rules and follow them as long as there are no humans around. They are cats, after all.
Missy likes things decorated her way. Karen likes things in her own way and probably thinks that we are moving the things she puts on counters because every day, Karen comes in and dusts and cleans. She picks things up and puts them down where she thinks they should be. Small things like knick-knacks, tissue boxes, lamps and the like. Every night, Missy goes around and moves things back to where she wants them, which is always within 6 inches and never on the floor.
Except the kitchen towel that Karen likes to have hanging from 1 certain drawer by the fridge. Missy DOES not want it there, she doesn’t want anything there! During the night, she drags that towel into different rooms and puts it somewhere where it can’t easily be seen. She doesn’t pee on it or rip it up or anything, she just shows her displeasure at having a towel where she doesn’t want it by removing it.
I’m pretty sure that Karen thinks that one of us humans has been doing it, because today she came to my BB and said that one of the dogs must have been hiding the towels as a game. Our perfect lady’s would never do such a thing! (Without leaving drool and teeth marks all over, they would have played tug of war and left the shredded remains in the living room.)
My BB says that I have to be the one to break the news to Karen that she is losing a dominance battle with a cat, because he isn’t going to be able to do it without laughing. He is called Beloved BUTTHEAD for a reason!!!
Love your tale of cat vs housekeeper, flatlined. Cats always win.
My DH used to bring me flowers fairly often, for holidays or just because. Then we got Shadow. She doesn’t think flowers belong in vases. She thinks they are great decorations for the floor. She takes them out of the vase one by one, in her teeth, and transports them to the exact spot her decorator sense decides they belong. On the floor. So now I don’t get flowers any more. DH and I know better than to try and argue with a cat.
I just wanted a little car to run around locally as my car died for good and we have a newer SUV for longer trips, but it’s a gas hog, and my mom also has trouble getting in and out of it. I also hate parking it. I got a Nissan Sentra. I wasn’t wild about it at first and figured well, it will do the job, but now I LOVE it. It’s cute, fun, easy on gas, perfect for driving my mom around, and is just a great little car. Then that scumbag ran into it. Fortunately, it’s all minor, but it’s still $2,000 in damage. I’m trying to look on the bright side. The repair place is going to fix the saggy door for nothing, it will get an alignment that it needed anyway, and they’re also going to touch up some other scratches since they’ll have the paint.
Impalas have always been huge boats (my grandmother had one in the 70s). Back up cameras have only been around for a comparatively short time. I assure you that parallel parking was a thing in the 70s. As was avoiding toddler-squashing.
But for a long trip it would be SO comfortable.