Columbo is a detective. Someone is being clever.
Maybe it wasn’t ordered by the owners? Or the owners ordered it with no intention of eating it? Or, OR, who gives a shit and it’s none of your business?
I know who Columbo was. His or her comment was in no way clever, though.
More clever than yours, however.
Getting children to do anything. Go to bed. Get dressed. Do homework.
It really shouldn’t be that hard, and you can buy a thousand books which guaranty that if you follow their advice it will all be smooth sailing, but it ain’t.
I swear I have never had a single time in my life where asking “So where do you want to go out to eat” has ever ended with a simple answer and not a complicated phone help support line extended Question and Answer session.
I have a close friend who basically doesn’t want to eat anywhere despite the fact he’s always asking me out for lunch. It goes like this…
And repeat.
Broadcasting status, income, gender, tribe, sexuality - all things that the hairless plains ape finds fascinating and important; that’s the obvious added benefit of clothing. Clothing is communication; shelter from the elements is secondary.
Made me laugh, though. I thought it was clever.
Asuka’s friend thinks IHOP is expensive?
Does eating out mean raiding dumpsters usually?
Pizza ordering is also complicated in that every pizza place constantly has a deal going on for cheap pizza, but if you somehow miss that deal you get menu price pizza which is so expensive.
You can go from a $7 2 topping large pizza to a $20 2 topping large pizza based solely on if you remember their advertised deal or not.
You missed the spelling. It’s “iHop,” which I assume must be a restaurant within the Apple Store, and you have to place your order through iTunes or something.
Getting ready to go somewhere and getting out the door. Half of my family can do it, the other half can’t.
I hate, hate, hate, fake buttons on computers, smart phones, tablets, etc. They are just a suggestion that you might like to do something.
Want to turn it on? You have to hold the button down for a while so the device knows that you really, relay, Really, want to turn it on and didn’t just bump the button.
Want to turn it off? Same thing. You should be able to click the button and turn it off! I do not give a shit about the steps that the device has to go through to shut down. You have to hold the button down until the device comes to the conclusion that you might want to turn it off. Then it will ask you several times if you are sure. Are you sure? I’m not sure why they even go through the motions of having an on/off button because they clearly do not work. The device will turn on only if it approves of your intent. It will only turn off with great reluctance.
I do not give a shit what steps the device has to do to power up and down. I do not give a damn if some information may be lost. Give me a button that works and isn’t just some kind of suggestion.
Printers. The Ricoh printer at work, and most printers, are unnecessarily complex. Put an original into the printer. Select number of copies. Hit print. Then the damn thing starts screeching/beeping at you to tell you that you left the original in the printer tray. Like 3 seconds after your copies have printed, before you have had any time to remove them. Beep! beep! beep! until you remove the original. I am pretty sure that if I just left the original in the machine that the next person to make a copy of something will take it out.
I do not need things to nag me with the beeps! Why does the microwave have to beep? I just put something inside for one minute to warm up and I am probably standing right there. Beep! Beep! Beep! I know it is done, I am standing right here. I managed to silence the beepers on the washer and dryer. But unneeded BEEPS just burn may ass. Someone sleeping in the other room? Not any more because you didn’t get back to the device before the un-silenceable BEEP went off. Fuck beeping devices, they are annoying and add nothing.
Finally paid off the damn house. It wasn’t a simple issue of “I mail in the last payment, and they mail me back my deed”. Of course not.
No, lots of red tape requiring phone calls, emailing, mailing, wiring ( funds ), visits to city center government offices ( and all the attendant PIA of navigating urbanity, parking in urbanity, playing rat in a maze of large multistory buildings…though if I waited a year I could have used light rail ). To all these “get the guv-mint outta my life” types, I can report that the private sector has bureaucracy just as meddlesome as the governments they rail against.
It sure dulled whatever “woo-hoo! I did it!” euphoria I may have been naive enough to expect.
Yeah, I remember making the final payment on our mortgage. Time on the phone to get the exact amount to send in, get a bank check, find out where to send it to and what else needed to be included, making sure it all got done before the amount changed, etc.
I’ve always wondered what would have happened if we sent in a check like a regular payment but for a couple bucks more than what we guessed we owed. Would we have just gotten a letter back saying it was paid off and here’s $2.30 back you overpaid? Would have been easier.
As to the deed, I went down to the county courthouse to get make sure it was all documented and got a funny look. They relented and gave me a thing showing the bank had reported it paid off. That was it. They didn’t issue anything when this happened. So a wasted trip.
I got a “deed” but not the original; just a copy of it. I said to the county clerk that the use of a copy makes it seem less official somehow. She agreed but she said that’s just the way things are done now.
Buying a reasonably priced 12" ruler is amazingly difficult. (Preferably clear plastic.)
The major problem: Almost all 12" rulers are longer than 12". There’s little bits of wasted space on each end. I measure a lot of stuff by butting the end of the ruler against something.
Getting a 12+" ruler and trimming it has issues: squareness, accuracy, messing with the cm scale, etc.
The cheapest one I can find on Amazon costs $6 (!) and several negative reviews go on about how floppy it is. This is something where charging a buck is overkill.
Hopefully when your OS slowly corrupts from being interrupted mid-update and bluescreens repeatedly years from now, and your documents lose their data because you didn’t heed the prompt about saving before shutting down, and when your programs stop working or start slowing down because you messed up their updates and they have corrupt settings files, and you constantly get popup flags asking you to install an update that won’t install because you corrupted the last update, I won’t hear a peep out of you for messing with your basic computer operations so much because you can’t be assed to read a prompt or two and click a button before shutting down :rolleyes: And I certainly won’t want to hear later about how your computer is so slow and buggy when you’re doing everything humanly possible to create bugs in it and slow it down.
Singing in to the Office Depot website. So I forgot my password so I click on the forget password link. I fill that out and go to click send. Apparently they sent the new password to a phone number I never had. So now I’ll have to call customer service to fix it. Ugh. I may never order from Office Depot again.
I got a couple hundred back a month or so after I paid for my house. I guess somebody miscalculated.