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I'm forever shaking my head at the amount of stupidity that exists today.
Perfect example... I ordered my fruit tree's from a reputable site. Seemed simple enough... 2 peach, 1 apple, and 1 cherry. Boxes come yesterday. 1 peach and 1 apple in one box... all good. Second box, I busted open crushed box with a broken dead peach tree and no cherry tree.
Refused the box and Fed Ex took it back. Got hold of the shipper and they heard from Fed Ex and the box was to be returned to the shipper. So, I went out and bought the missing tree's locally. Dug a bunch of holes and planted everything. Sitting here this evening and low and behold... Fed Ex shows up with the same re-taped smashed, missing tree box. o_O Now, online it shows item was refused and being returned to SHIPPER. Yet somehow, these stupid, stupid fools at Fed Ex can't grasp that simple fact.


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I’m venting about people walking side-by-side in the grocery aisle. The rows are too narrow for dawdlers.

Also frustrating are the store shoppers who leave those big blue carts in the middle while they search for something. I heard a senior person reprimanding a dolt for creating an unacceptable situation.
 
Jules said:
Also frustrating are the store shoppers who leave those big blue carts in the middle while they search for something. I heard a senior person reprimanding a dolt for creating an unacceptable situation.
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I just move their carts to the side and continue on my way. Most shoppers don't mean to be rude, they just get distracted for longer than expected.

As someone with ADHD, I completely understand how easily that happens.
 
Grrrrrrr. In late August, I bought a bicycle. I took it for one ride; the second time I started out, the tire was flat and wrapped around the gears. Because I'd bought a warranty plan, I can take it to the store and get it repaired.

What an ordeal! The warranty company already has all of my purchase information as well as a photograph of my receipt. To file a claim, I had to enter ALL of the information again, take photos of the bicycle AND submit another photo of the receipt! I was like, "You already HAVE a photo of my receipt!"

Now I just got an email saying the photos of the bike weren't sufficient and to send new ones. :mad:

I lost more than an hour of work time yesterday dealing with this. I'm tempted just to scrap the whole thing and, come Christmas, donate it to a local charity that collects bikes, sends them to the local prison, where inmates repair them, and then distributes them to needy children. (A very good cause!) But I spent a lot of money, and I'm not willing to give up so soon.

I feel better having ranted about this!
 
My rant today is that EZPass charged me $4 toll when I wasn't even in the country (don't think I'd have noticed except for that fact) and the car in the picture is the wrong color (I couldn't read all of the license plate number, tho the first three numbers do match mine).
 
squatting dog said:
I'm forever shaking my head at the amount of stupidity that exists today.
Perfect example... I ordered my fruit tree's from a reputable site. Seemed simple enough... 2 peach, 1 apple, and 1 cherry. Boxes come yesterday. 1 peach and 1 apple in one box... all good. Second box, I busted open crushed box with a broken dead peach tree and no cherry tree.
Refused the box and Fed Ex took it back. Got hold of the shipper and they heard from Fed Ex and the box was to be returned to the shipper. So, I went out and bought the missing tree's locally. Dug a bunch of holes and planted everything. Sitting here this evening and low and behold... Fed Ex shows up with the same re-taped smashed, missing tree box. o_O Now, online it shows item was refused and being returned to SHIPPER. Yet somehow, these stupid, stupid fools at Fed Ex can't grasp that simple fact.


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Maybe they thought you wouldn't notice that it was the same box. :ROFLMAO:
 
I hate that they are doctoring potato's so you can't grow them from their eye's. Found one growing eye's in the closet, so I cut it up and planted it in a 5 gal. pail. I have done this before and after about 3 months, you can harvest anywhere from 10-25 potato's in that bucket.
Well... after a 3 month wait, this is what I got...:mad:... (tells me that the innards are also affected by what ever chemical they're using to stop seeding. Anyway, called the inlaws in Tn. and they're sending me some seed potato's.


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QR codes in general:mad:. I'm tired of seeing them everdamwhere and being instructed to scan for this or that or the other information.

QR codes in television commercials :mad:. Don't tell me to scan your stupid QR code.

QR codes instead of menus in restaurants:mad:. Too cheap to have real menus printed? Fuggedaboudit. If you're that cheap, I don't wanna eat in your restaurant.
 
I had to replace the toner in my printer. Hubby used to do things like this but now he’s gone, I have to learn. Inside box had a 1-800 number so I called. Overseas of course. After 10 minutes the man finally said YouTube. lol How could I have forgotten that? Well, seriously 2 minutes it was done and ready to go. YouTube! YouTube! YouTube! A new widows favorite friend. 😊
 
I don't like 'doctoring' potatoes either. Earlier this year we bought some 'Amanda' potatoes that were really good, but were only available for a short time. Nobody in the UK seemed to stock the seed potatoes, so we decided to plant some of the ones we bought. Of the 9 we planted only 3 grew, but we did get a decent crop from them. We'll plant them in the spring and see if we can get a crop from them.

On the subject of printers, my all in one HP has stopped scanning or copying. I mostly use it for printing, but copying is a useful function. Printing still works OK, but looks like I'll have to buy a new one soon.
 
Trying to return an item to Amazon through UPS and they require a box which I didn't have since the product wouldn't fit back into original box. They charged me $12.00 for a box to use from them. I only received a partial refund, thanks to that effort.
 
Jules said:
I’m venting about people walking side-by-side in the grocery aisle. The rows are too narrow for dawdlers.

Also frustrating are the store shoppers who leave those big blue carts in the middle while they search for something. I heard a senior person reprimanding a dolt for creating an unacceptable situation.
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hahha...that just happened to me just now in Tesco... completey blocked the aisle and the assitant wasn't anywhere to be seen.. so I pushed it, dragging my own trolley behind me right to the bottom of the aisle and into the clothing aisles... as I walked back casually with my trolley , the asistant was looking completely stunned as to where her trolley had gone...:ROFLMAO:
 
Capt Lightning said:
I don't like 'doctoring' potatoes either. Earlier this year we bought some 'Amanda' potatoes that were really good, but were only available for a short time. Nobody in the UK seemed to stock the seed potatoes, so we decided to plant some of the ones we bought. Of the 9 we planted only 3 grew, but we did get a decent crop from them. We'll plant them in the spring and see if we can get a crop from them.

On the subject of printers, my all in one HP has stopped scanning or copying. I mostly use it for printing, but copying is a useful function. Printing still works OK, but looks like I'll have to buy a new one soon.
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OOOh I would never have an HP again... they hold you to ransom with the InK...
 
StarSong said:
I tell the waitstaff I need a printed menu. They always have them.
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The hostess would look at us old folks and go get a paper menu without us asking, I know how to use a QR code, but sure do prefer the paper menu. Then I noticed other people asking for them.

Our favourite Chinese restaurant prints out a new double sided one page menu whenever the prices or something changes. It’s cleaner than handling menu books.
 

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