Went to Giant Eagle to get the flu shot. Last one was in Feb. They dont give you $5 for shots anymore and the bus was coming soon so I left.
I could’ve used that 5. Guess I’ll go to my dr.
First of all, I’m an idiot. So don’t be too hard on me. Here’s the thing … I move last fall to a new apartment and I just brought my Xfinity modem with me and set it up. Everything was working fine until I realized I never transferred services to a new address. Long story short, my internet was clipped and I have to set up a whole new account because someone moved in at the old address, yada yada yada. I just spent the majority of my lunch break today (I’m not even suppose to be here today, goddamnit) getting rogered by Xfinity. They basically forced cable channels on me (because “they’re included”) and my bill went up by twenty bucks. AND … I have to go drop off and pick up new equipment on my own when I don’t have the goddamned time to.
Now … here I am at home with no internet posting to the internet. I’m using my Verizon connected phone as a hot spot. So I’m sitting here asking myself … what the fuck do I even need Xfinity for in the first place?
Next move, I’m going down to my Verizon store to review my account and make sure I’m up to speed and maybe grab a modem and I’m just going to tell Xfinity to kick rocks.
I literally think I’ve been double paying for Internet for the past two years.
That’s another mini-rant: What’s with all these entitled kids being picked up (by helicoptor parents)?
When I was a school kid, I walked or took my bike. Every day, rain or snow.
My kids did the same (except for two years at a distant grade school; then they took the bus).
Now, little Ashley Juniper can’t walk anywhere! (“Mawwwwm, we have to pick up Ashley Grace and Ashley Amaro so we can get driven six blocks to get matching tops at the mall!”)
Or worse, the High School Ashleys are given their own car (I actually saw a red Jeep with a “4 Ashley” license plate).
There may be such somewhere.
But I assure you that for the school I saw, the neighborhood it’s in and draws it’s students from can best be described as “working class” with some mixture of “working poor”. No shiny Lexuses in line, but a lot of ratty 2000s Toyotas.
My neighborhood.
It’s not a bad neighborhood, nor large. But parents will completely block the entrance to my neighborhood for 15-20 minutes. At least a dozen cars. It was preventing me from leaving to get my kid from school for fucks’ sake (her small private school didn’t have bus service and I had to drive to get her).
They park illegally (in front of no parking signs) and block the neighborhood entrance/exit as they chat with the bus driver who has his stop sign flashing. For up to 20 minutes. I timed it once because it got ridiculous. Or the parents who park side by side blocking the road and chatting with each other because they think they own the goddamn road.
They are picking up kids who only have to walk half the distance from the bus stop I used to walk by myself as a kindergartner.
If I get stuck like that again this school year I’m calling the fucking cops.
I received a service disconnect notice from CenturyLink on Thursday last week. They claim they raised my internet rate by $10 last September and claim they’ve sent me emails every month letting me know. I’ve never received a single email to my (gmail) account, not to spam, not mistakenly filtered out. Now they’re charging me a $270 penalty fee, in addition to the $110 dollars I owe. The total bill can be paid in 2 payments, both within only 30 days. Otherwise my service will be disconnected after tomorrow.
I was afraid when I signed up for paperless billing something like this would happen, but since I never received any notices I didn’t worry about it. I’ve just dutifully had the bank send payment every month. I’ve never been able to set up an account with CL online, and still can’t, even after they claimed on Friday they fixed whatever wasn’t allowing me to. They refuse to remove the penalty fee, because they say they have proof they sent the emails and they didn’t bounce. I’m absolutely enraged. They refuse to even consider that I’m not lying. I have one more day to pay up or have my service disconnected. A supervisor said he would do nothing to help because they show the emails were sent successfully. But clearly, they weren’t.
My only decent internet options here are Comcast or CenturyLink. I quit Comcast 20 years ago when they disconnected my account after 1 accidentally overlooked payment - their warning letter came after they disconnected the service. So I guess I’m going to have to go crawling back to them.
Having been a customer of both, as bad as Comcast is, CenturyLink is worse.
My son started walking home in grade 4. He doesn’t walk to school because we aren’t morning people and it’s not really a detour from my husband’s commute.
It’s about 1.5km (just shy of a mile) and there is a very busy road with only stop signs and no crossing guards where I know that pedestrians or cyclists have been hit at least twice in the past two-ish years.
So I made damn sure my kid was going to have the situational awareness to avoid that, because a kindergartener simply doesn’t. They may know the “rules” but judging when that car has actually seen you, is actually stopping, and won’t accelerate into you while rolling through the stop signs isn’t something that 6 year olds can actually reliably do. I trust my kid. I don’t trust drivers.
I pick him up often but usually when the weather sucks or I’m coming back from my clients around that time (work from home otherwise) and I just feel like it. As often as not he’ll just toss his bag at me and still choose to walk, now that his friends are also allowed to.
If he went to the other school nearby he’d walk every time. They haya crossing guard. Same school board and they’ve never explained why one school gets one and the other doesn’t.
I second this. No matter the competitor, CenturyLink is always worse.
I’m currently in the middle of installing a gigabit fiber optic line for internet, streaming services and – most important of all – VoIP phones. This is because CenturyLink regularly allows outages that literally last for weeks. I’ve had enough.
So installing the new fiber optic line requires a locate to be performed by all the utility companies, as is usual and customary. CenturyLink was the first to check in as having done their locate work. No one even came. They approved it without anyone marking where their phone lines are. I know where their phone lines are, but that’s no thanks to them.
They are a horrible company! I can’t wait to dump 'em!
Most schools have a policy that you have to pick up your kid, they cannot walk. Children are no longer permitted by society to be independent because there’s a chance, however small, the kid could get hurt.
I was today recalling that I started waiting for the bus when I was about eight, but one day I missed the bus and decided to ride my bike to school instead. But I lived just off a highway (55mph) and I didn’t know how to get to school, and also it was snowing heavily. But I packed up and left anyway, soon found out I had to push my bike, ended up very lost and very cold and knocked on the door of a complete stranger, who threw my bike in his trunk and drove me to school.
And the school didn’t even call my Mom.
That was my impression, but good to know from a pro.
Can’t argue with that!
Comcast charges a “Self-Installation Fee of $39.99”, and a “Professional Install Fee of $100”. I assume that since I haven’t the slightest idea of how to self-install anything like this, I’d have to go with the $100 professional installation fee. Probably worth it just to never have to deal with CenturyLink ever again. I’m still enraged.
Is there some way to discover why I never received any emails from CenturyLink to my gmail account since April of 2024, though they claim they’ve sent it every month? I check my spam folder daily, and double-checked that I didn’t somehow have CL filtered out. I finally just was able to set up an online account, after they pressed the magic button somehow, and confirmation emails came to my gmail account right away. Along with a notice that the rates are going up another $10 next month. Could the lack of emails have to do with my online account not having been set up?
If there’s some kind of mismatch with your information in their records, it could absolutely cause both problems. And since you can’t check your info online you have no true way to verify.
My biggest issue with them is that they really just don’t care about their customers. Not even as much as a business normally would. Most businesses care enough to want to keep you as a revenue source. For some reason they don’t.
As a former CenturyLink customer, I third this. My landline was out for a month before I finally gave up and canceled; to my knowledge, they never bothered to fix the problem.
It doesn’t matter which vendor it is. If I have some manner of e-whatever set up and I don’t hear from them monthly with a detailed statement / invoice, then something is f-ed up and needs immediate attention.
Assuming one can just send them $X on the Yth of the month is failure from end to end.
Why is “The Day After Tomorrow” (2004) always on TV…? It’s silly “we’re all going to freeze, lets run to Texas” anti-climate change BS premise is laughable at best and worthy of a Kirk Cameron cameo.
Are Dennis Quaid and Jake Gyllenhaal tag-team fellating AMC executives…?
Note that the movie was based on a book co-written by the late Art Bell.
Yes, that Art Bell, of Coast to Coast AM infamy, which deals with conspiracy theories and supernatural nuttery with equal credulity. Weekly World News might as well be the Associated Press by comparison.
Now, Bell was trying to actually warn about climate change and advocate for trying to prevent a global catastrophe, but in his own batshit way that ignores science and reality in favor of sensationalism.
The film is a bit of a marvel though, because I could see climate change deniers and informed people finding common ground in condemning the movie (for completely different reasons of course).
Friggin’ Xfinity. So, I went down to the Verizon store and got shit straightened away with them. For some reason, my account was locked - not the services, just access to the account - so I had to go through some anti-fraud dealio to get that squared away, after which I added Verizon internet to my account and picked up a modem for an extra $40 on my account. Take away the $120 that Xfinity was soaking me for and that’s not bad.
But I told Xfinity not to sent me any hardware, because I still wasn’t sure what I was planning. But no … they sent me a new modem anyway and probably charged me for the delivery fee. So now I have to lug two modems to the Xfinity store … but as I’m writing all this … fuck them. I’ll cancel all my shit online and if they want their shit they can come get it. I’m sick of Xfinity and I’m glad to finally be rid of them.
After nearly 6 years, I finally have joined the astoundingnumber of people who have contracted Covid.
My condolences. I hope it’s like the mild one I had the second time and not the absolute nightmare the first time.
My truck broke down. Out of town, but fortunately near a place that specialises in this specific model, a '85 Toyota D4D Raider.
It is going to cost me USD $3400 to fix it. That is roughly half the value of the vehicle…