Random Rants Eighty-Four: Rants Gone Wild!!!!

[JohannaK]

I got electroshocked plugging in a light fixture on set. Should have been wearing gloves. My arm felt limp and tired for the next six hours, that mean until pretty much right now.

I didnt weae them gloves cause the fixture seemed safe and had been previously manipulated without them by other people.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

So, no security cams in the parking lot?

None pointed my way. Nope.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

@Lemon Merchant "and the terrible, horrible, very bad, no good day."

That was the title of my first Rants thread (well, not the part about Lemon Merchant, though I recall she posted in it).

Follow-up to my Photobucket situation: I received a contrite email from them, blaming the issue on an automated message.

When the time comes to renew, I am still going to ask for a discount for the coming year, citing the inconvenience of having to deal with these wrongful demands for upgrading, plus the fact that due to their site's fault, none of my images were visible or available for several weeks.

Dunno if they'll go along with it, but at least I haven't had to pay the extortionate amounts they demanded from other account holders. It really does pay to complain; I wonder how many people haven't, and got stuck with those higher rates for less storage and no 3rd party hosting (I still have that).

 

[shadowplay]

None pointed my way. Nope.

What happened to the guy you tried out your taekwondo on who punched you a while back?

 

[Takhisis]

Ideally a pizza place should have decent selections of pasta, fries/wedges, cheese sticks, and seafood. Oh, and pizza is okay, as well.

But it's a pizza place, not an all-rounded restaurant.

I got electroshocked plugging in a light fixture on set. Should have been wearing gloves. My arm felt limp and tired for the next six hours, that mean until pretty much right now.

I didnt weae them gloves cause the fixture seemed safe and had been previously manipulated without them by other people.

That is definitely on you, man. The others just lucked out.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

But it's a pizza place, not an all-rounded restaurant.

One of the main attractions of Pizza Hut, TBH, is their chicken alfredo pasta. Being a pizza place doesn't completely rule out some diversity on the menu.

 

[Takhisis]

Well, if the word alfredo's involved then Valka's down for it no matter what.

 

[Birdjaguar]

That was the title of my first Rants thread (well, not the part about Lemon Merchant, though I recall she posted in it).

Before that it was (and still is) a fun children's book called Alexander and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day published in 1972, That is why I put it in quotes.

 

[MaryKB]

I went out to have coffee with a friend. On my way out I stopped in to use the bathroom, and whoever used it before me peed all over the seat. How the heck do you miss? I can understand men doing that, but in a women's bathroom???

I also left a basket of laundry on the bed that needed to be folded and put away. And of course it was still waiting for me when I got home!

 

[Birdjaguar]

I went out to have coffee with a friend. On my way out I stopped in to use the bathroom, and whoever used it before me peed all over the seat. How the heck do you miss? I can understand men doing that, but in a women's bathroom???

The obvious answer is not politically correct here.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I went out to have coffee with a friend. On my way out I stopped in to use the bathroom, and whoever used it before me peed all over the seat. How the heck do you miss? I can understand men doing that, but in a women's bathroom???

Maybe someone went in the wrong bathroom

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I got electroshocked plugging in a light fixture on set. Should have been wearing gloves. My arm felt limp and tired for the next six hours, that mean until pretty much right now.

I didnt weae them gloves cause the fixture seemed safe and had been previously manipulated without them by other people.

I'm glad you are ok!

Rant:
A lady got on the subway car I was riding. Thirty seconds later, she was at the front of the cab activating the emergency contact intercom. You know, the one with big red letters FOR EMERGENCY USE ONLY written on it?

Her emergency? It was too cold in the cab.

The lady got off on the next stop. She was on the train for five flipping minutes and she thought it'd be cool to risk escalating emergency protocols to complain about being cold. The entitlement is un-freaking-real.

 

[Ajidica]

I went out to have coffee with a friend. On my way out I stopped in to use the bathroom, and whoever used it before me peed all over the seat. How the heck do you miss? I can understand men doing that, but in a women's bathroom???

Presumably she was marking her territory.

 

[H4run]

What happened to the guy you tried out your taekwondo on who punched you a while back?

IIRC the guy received her kick like a baby then get protected by the police then she got a problem with a police because she knew "martial art".

If she do that stunt here she gonna be one of the national heroes, and people swarm following her instagram, adding her facebook, inviting her to interview, she will be invited to make a video about kicking a jerk tutorial and immortalized her with countless memes. She will be a living legend.

 

[Takhisis]

I went out to have coffee with a friend. On my way out I stopped in to use the bathroom, and whoever used it before me peed all over the seat. How the heck do you miss? I can understand men doing that, but in a women's bathroom???

Actually, men can aim.

sorry, but it's a tap-in

 

[Valka D'Ur]

But it's a pizza place, not an all-rounded restaurant.

Most pizza places here, in addition to pizza, offer various kinds of bread/cheese sticks, pasta, fries/potato wedges, seafood (usually shrimp, but Pizza 73 had cod bites for awhile, which was good), chicken (nuggets or strips), some places offer ribs, and most offer some sort of dessert. Of course they also offer beverages (mostly pop or water; some offer coffee, tea, and juice). The reason is that most people like a variety of finger foods, and if the restaurant expands their menu to offer it, they're more likely to keep a customer who might be tempted away to another place.

Before that it was (and still is) a fun children's book called Alexander and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day published in 1972, That is why I put it in quotes.

Where do you think I got the thread title from?

I also left a basket of laundry on the bed that needed to be folded and put away. And of course it was still waiting for me when I got home!

You need to train your laundry to fold itself.

Well, either that or train your husband and/or cats.


Rant: Skip the Dishes is a very useful food delivery service... when it works. It suddenly decided not to recognize my email address, so it took about half an hour in customer service hell to try to sort things out, and I STILL had to solve it myself by resetting my password and trying a different browser.

And when I got my food... I am convinced that nobody at McDonalds can read or count when it comes to cookies. They have screwed up every cookie order I've ever had. Somehow, ordering 12 chocolate chunk and 2 red velvet cookies was translated into 6 chocolate chunk and 6 red velvet cookies (a quick calculation will show that I paid for 14 cookies and got 12).

At least this customer service experience wasn't as bad. There was a dispute over the amount of the refund (they offered $4.20, I calculated it should be $5.76, and we settled for $6.30). ALWAYS work this out before even starting the chat, because some agents don't understand that they have to account for all the incorrect/missing items, and include GST.

Before anyone starts chastising me for eating McDonalds stuff, I've had an aggravating day, and decided that yes, I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER.

 

[JohannaK]

Before that it was (and still is) a fun children's book called Alexander and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day published in 1972, That is why I put it in quotes.

Hmm, I wonder where Valka got the idea for her title... it's really a mystery... we should dig deeper.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Hmm, I wonder where Valka got the idea for her title... it's really a mystery... we should dig deeper.

Yes, for those familiar with the book it is quite obvious. Just giving credit where credit is due.

 

[EgonSpengler]

A person I work with just asked me if I could figure out what was wrong with their printer. I had to stop what I was doing, go down the hall, look at their PC and printer. It needed paper. They do this crap all the time. They aren't stupid, they're just one of these people who think all technology is indistinguishable from magic. They won't even bother to understand the basics of the 30-year-old technology that they use every day. Makes me [forking] insane. They don't work for me, though, so I don't know if I can tell them that it's [forking] 2020 and they should maybe learn how to use [forking] 1990 technology. At least they said 'thanks.'

 

[Farm Boy]

Actually, men can aim.

Depends on if it's a rifle or a snub nose.