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[TPFKA@W]

Horny and tired is an awful combination.

So you're tired and your wife is horney?

[Gob]

Temazepalm, is a wonder cure for male insomnia.

[wesw]

I ve heard of Tasmanian devils, but tasmanianpalms?

[Crackpot]

I was wondering if adding rum to my chai tea would help my cold (and not be completely horrid) but I just realized I'm out of rum so the world may never know.

[Crackpot]

On a somewhat related note why am I seemingly the only person who can pour honey out of a squeeze bottle and not make a mess/mangle the container so other people can't use the damn thing without becoming a sticky mess?

[Guinevere]

Love chai - not so much rum - but think they would be an ok combo. The spices help with the cold (I think)!

[Lord Jim]

I've decided that the six most terrifying words in the English language are:

"In order to serve you better"...

Has anyone ever gotten a notice from a company they do business with or that provides them a service that began with those words where it actually turned out to be true? In my experience that phrase is uniformly code for either (or sometimes both):

1. We've completely fucked up the user interface of our perfectly well functioning website in order to justify the money we pay our IT department.

2. We're reducing what we offer you and slashing our customer service in order to save money and serve ourselves better.

[oldr_n_wsr]

"In order to serve you better" means (to me) that we really sucked at serving you and now we suck just a little less. (aka ObamaCare)

[MajGenl.Meade]

Sometimes one is forced to admire oldr's optimistic enthusiasm.

Along LJ's line of thought, what does it mean when every time one telephones an entity that has promised to "serve you better", the first recoded voice one hears announces that "We are experiencing unusual call volumes and regret that your waiting time to speak to a representative may be extensive".

If it's EVERY f***ing time, then it isn't f***ing UNUSUAL is it? What they mean is, "we are too cheap to employ enough service staff" so "in order to screw you better, you can bloody well wait until doomsday."

Thank goodness! I managed to flush oldr's optimism and enthusiasm out of my system (Jus' kiddin', oldr - yer a good egg)

[Lord Jim]

Sometimes one is forced to admire oldr's optimistic enthusiasm.

I was going to say something along the same lines..

I dream of the day that "in order to serve you better" results in something sucking a little less rather than considerably more...

"We are experiencing unusual call volumes and regret that your waiting time to speak to a representative may be extensive".

There are some companies that use that as an insidious ploy to frustrate people and get them to hang up, regardless of what the actual call volume is...

The reason I'm pretty sure this is the case, is because there are times that I get that message, and the actual wait time on hold winds up only being a couple of minutes.

Others use an insanely complex labyrinth of recorded options before one can finally reach a human being to accomplish the same purpose...

Sometimes the quickest way to get past this is to keep shouting "agent!" over and over again into the phone no matter what question the insipid recorded voice asks...

Another good counter measure is to choose an option either to cancel service or to purchase something new, rather than tech or customer service. For some odd reason, companies seem to pay quicker attention when it involves costing them money or making them more money (as opposed to delivering what has already been paid for by existing customers).

You'll be in the wrong department, but once you have a live human being, they frequently can get you directly to help a lot quicker than waiting in an endless que, or navigating through a circular recorded system...

Matters have reached a sorry pass when paying customers have to think up ways to outwit the obstacles that companies put in their way to make it as difficult as possible for them to get the service they paid for, but that's life today...

[oldr_n_wsr]

Sometimes one is forced to admire oldr's optimistic enthusiasm.

I'll let you know that sometimes I get to feeling down. But then I take a stroll around here and realize things can get worse and I'm not feeling bad anymore.

I did have a "pain in the ass" moment when I was trying to give the newspaper company a new date on my credit card for the autobill of delivery. They sent me a letter to go to their website and update my info. I went there and it would not let me update it would only let me newly prescribe to getting the paper delivered. I called and got a live person right away (well after hitting 1 for english and 2 for whaterever and 3 just because) and the live person told me to take the new precription offer as it was heavily discounted and I would save about $6 a week.

I actually ended up doing it twice and had the second perscription sent to the drug crisis place I spent two weeks in (before I went to a 28day rehab) a couple of years ago. I hated not having a daily newspaper when I was there.

[BoSoxGal]

What a kind thing to do, oldr! I'm sure other residents at the rehab will much enjoy having the paper.


I spent nearly the entire day today in utter frustration, having become certain that I'm somehow 'lost' the USB thumb drive onto which I'd backed up 2.5 years of work, plus all my contacts.

I searched all the boxes I'd brought home, all over my house and in my car.

Was on the verge of tearing out my hair.

Found it under something under something else on my desk.



I can't stand this middle-aged brain shit. I suppose, however, that it beats the alternative.

[wesw]

older, you are going to get in trouble sending prescriptions to the re hab place. I just can t subscribe to that....

[oldr_n_wsr]

older, you are going to get in trouble sending prescriptions to the re hab place. I just can t subscribe to that....

Channeling your inner Meade??
I thought about that (pre vs sub) after I logged off but will not go back and edit the post.

I called the crisis place to tell them that they should expect the newspaper delivery and to let me know if it doesn't get delivered. I also put a restriction on it, that it was to stay in the dining room (aka, don't let people take it to their rooms) as everyone should get a chance to read it. They agreed and thanked me.

[wesw]

I only point out the ones that amuse me, generally....

[MajGenl.Meade]

Channeling your inner Meade??

Oh now, oldr. I read your post about brain farts and knew what you meant.

[TPFKA@W]

Up, down what is next on the Tigger and Eeyore show?

[MajGenl.Meade]

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[oldr_n_wsr]

I was thinking.......

[MajGenl.Meade]

If there's a 50/50 chance that my t-shirt will be the right way around when I put it on in the dark, how come mine is always backwards?