Not ‘package up trash and take it to someone else’.
We have been a part of food and clothing drives in CA for Santa Rosa, Lake County and Butte County fires. Mostly we do it for animals, but we help where we can. We meet a lot of people who willing to give, and give a LOT. They went to thrift and discount stores and bought jeans, socks, shirts, jackets… Its nice to be a part of that community.
But often, when sorting through donations, we come across ‘donations’.
Seriously, folks. These are displaced victims of tragedy. They are not crazy homeless people digging through dumpsters. And even the crazy homeless people digging through dumpsters have standards. They do not want your torn and dirty ‘clothes’ that have been rotting in the corner of your garage for a year. Christ on a cracker, even the rats have abandoned this shit. Some of the stuff…I had to get a stick. I couldn’t bring myself to touch it with my hands.
A few months back, a couple brought buy a bunch of dog beds from their garage. As I went through them, I found that they were urine stained and stank to high heaven. I shudder to think what their house must be like.
I volunteered at a donation center in North Carolina after Hurricane Floyd, and I came away from that experience thoroughly convinced that a large number of people think “donations” means “place random garbage from your home here”. The bin with donated toys didn’t contain a single thing that wasn’t either incomplete or completely broken, and the only really decent clothes we received were overstock items from local companies that were covered in corporate branding. The most frightening item we found was a massive bra (I don’t remember the size, but the cups were the size of baseball caps) that had clearly never been washed. :smack: Yes, there is a need for undergarments of all sizes, but who in the hell thinks someone else wants to wear their crusty old bra?
dear tv station I don’t give a rats ass of a tinkers damn what holiday your having 5 10 or 30 50 days of
Only have it if your not going to show the same 5 or 10 damn movies everyday for the whole time…………
We have had four phone calls in the last two days when a woman’s voice says, “Richard?” And hopes you’ll say yes. It’s a scam where they try to claim you told them yes, you wanted to accept their offer for whatever it is. If I says “yes” (I did once, a long time ago before I knew better), she then says, “You’re harder to get a hold of than my teenager.” And then she goes on with her spiel. It’s a recording, no matter how much they try to pretend it isn’t. If I don’t say yes, she keeps saying, “Richard, are you there?” and then it goes silent. There’s no way to tell them to stop calling.
I can confirm those exist everywhere. The Spanish Road Code requires “assisting those who are trying to join the flow of traffic” (there has to be a shorter way to say that in English) “without disturbing said flow”. The coda wouldn’t be needed if people didn’t manage to be such enormous idiots about it.
Dear Appliance Repairman,
If you are not going to make the 4 hour window you scheduled me for, then give me a call! Thanks for wasting an entire day of my vacation time!
Kelevra
Just came back from Orycon 40 and had a great time, except for one small hitch. We had ordered commemorative coffee cups to be sold, with the logo on one side and a drawing from the artist Guest of Honor on the other. They were supposed to be white cups with black printing, and they were supposed to arrive last Thursday right before the Con.
They arrived this Monday morning after the Con.
The cups were black on the outside and white on the inside.
The cups had black printing-black on black.
How the holy fuck can you not figure out, after reading the instructions and looking at the artist’s rendition of what the cup should look like, that the black-on-black thing you made was a major mistake and that maybe you should not go ahead and make two full cases without consulting someone first?
The Real Reason Sam’s Club and Costco Check Your Receipt
Horseshit! Hooey! Crap! Untrue!
How do I know? Because if the ‘exit greeters’ were doing that, it would take forever! They are not looking closely enough or long enough to make any kind of determination.
Hey, we’re expecting to sell this house as a tear down within a year or two. Please, please let the furnace be repairable, and not COSTLY repairable, because buying a new furnace at this point would really suck.
Today I bought an electric kitty heating mat so hopefully I don’t have to keep throwing Mr. Butters out of my recliner every time I get up. Amazon helpfully offered the following suggestions “based on my order:”
A trampoline
Driving gloves
Wrist and ankle exercise weights
A wireless car phone charger
A box cutter/utility knife
2 (count 'em!) Santa Hats
A magnetic screwdriver set
A set of “premium” makeup brushes
Plastic shower caps
An off brand of a dental water pic
And several other items the cat had absolutely no interest in. And don’t even get me started on the “early black Friday deals” with 32 pages of the same old crap they haven’t been able to unload with their “deals of the day” they’ve been running for the last three years.
But at least their website doesn’t suck quite as much as Walmart’s.
