Random Rants Two

[Hitti-Litti]

For some odd reason, everyone on the internet seems to have adored me for the last year...

 

[Love]

For some odd reason, everyone on the internet seems to think i'm stupid for the last year...

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

For some odd reason, I'm already sick of this joke.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

And what sort of sketchy dentist's office has telemarketers? I won;t even talk to you people, I'm not letting you anywhere near my teeth!

 

[Swedishguy]

I got the task of pointing out Burma (Myanmar for you nazis) on a middle-eastern map. I pointed out Thailand! How stupid.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

They do look kind of similar.

 

[soul_warrior]

I got the task of pointing out Burma (Myanmar for you nazis) on a middle-eastern map. I pointed out Thailand! How stupid.

They do look kind of similar.

true.

and both are in the south western part of asia, not IIRC, the mid east

 

[Abaddon]

OT never changes.

 

[aronnax]

OT always changes.

 

[Abaddon]

How so? Same thread topics for the last 5 years..

 

[Love]

not 50 years of sputnik or How much would you pay for the Radiohead album? :SMUG: :SMUG:

 

[The Yankee]

God I hate dealing with the USPS. Spent an hour and a half roundtrip in mass transit getting to the post office to pick up the held mail from last week. I clearly stated on the form that I would pick up the mail there.

What happens? They search upstairs, then the clerk or whomever the hell the person was said "Yeah, it went out with a subcarrier. Sorry!"

Which of course means that I'll probably have to waste another trip there this week because the carriers here never actually bother to use the elevator to make deliveries (or if they do, they don't actually stick around for five seconds for the person to answer, or they just leave it in the hallway), the mail definitely won't fit into the tiny mailboxes in the building, or they just won't bother to do anything and I'll never know which bureaucratic black hole it fell in.

Should've known when I saw the clerk argue with three people on line "Go talk to supervisor! They don't tell me anything! Carriers just take crap and go!"

So I've been waiting all day for a package, since I figured I missed yesterday's delivery as I was in class (after all, I saw one of those "you weren't home" tags for some other apartment in the vestibule of the building, meaning they never got into the building). So I finally got the idea to look up the tracking number given this afternoon....and it says it was delivered yesterday morning, an hour after I left, at the front door.

When will people realize you don't leave packages in the vestibules of apartment buildings? Of course, it's nowhere to be found. I even left a note on the "special instructions" page to call my number if you can't get in the building. No such calls. I looked outside of the building. I looked in the lobby. I even looked in the trash (except wherever they store most of the trash, I don't know where it is). Nothing.

So now I can't prove I never got it and the claims forms on the website seem to not give any direction for "I never got it, but your idiot driver said he left it out in the open." I don't have a car, so I have no choice but to order. So now I'm out $100. Thanks a hell of a lot, FedEx!

Sigh...I can't live in this place anymore. But I can't move out of it, either.

As usual, an item I was supposed to receive a month ago was marked as "delivered" by the USPS once I finally pried the damn tracking number (which worried the hell out of me, but all I could do at that point was hope). Of course, it was delivered at a time I wasn't home. It was probably left either in the hallway or in front of the building. There goes $60.

So I decide to take it out on USPS's customer service system for their incredibly dumb carriers and parcel delivery guys. The reply comes back "I understand you don't want the carriers to overstuff your mailbox."

Completely not the point of it. I did state that carriers leave mail wherever they please if they can't shove a mass of mail into the building's tiny boxes (and some of the mail ends up damaged that way anyway). But the previous 15 lines of text, the tracking number, etc., etc., have absolutely no meaning whatsoever.

Idiots....

Too bad I'm stuck without a vehicle or without enough cash to shop retail a lot of the time.

Wonder what else I lost. Went two days without mail (which is a rarity, given all the catalogs and credit spam I get daily, even if my father moved).

 

[Catharsis]

You know what you need, Yankee? A carrier pigeon.

 

[The Yankee]

You know what you need, Yankee? A carrier pigeon.

I'd train some if I weren't worried about teenagers throwing pennies at them.

 

[Catharsis]

I'd train some if I weren't worried about teenagers throwing pennies at them.

Alright then, a carrier puma. No teenager would dare throw pennies at that (well, maybe the really stupid ones, but that's natural selection for ya).

It'd be great for getting parcels and mail around the city, and if you gave it a microlight it could do air-mail as well.

 

[The Yankee]

Ugh...I just found this site where cops complain about getting tickets from other cops while they were speeding, etc.

Worse yet, they go on to post the names and numbers of the officers giving the tickets. Way to endanger them.

My faith in humanity has decreased.

 

[Japanrocks12]

I'm so annoyed at the fact that this thread is longer than the rave thread

 

[The Yankee]

My 45 (err...now 46) posts in this thread helped make it happen!

 

[GoodEnoughForMe]

For some reason, I can be a jerk on teh internets but I am anything but that in real life! Being anonymous FTW! Or maybe FTL, since jerks kind of suck.

 

[soul_warrior]

For some reason, I can be a jerk on teh internets but I am anything but that in real life! Being anonymous FTW! Or maybe FTL, since jerks kind of suck.

you either jerk or suck, goodenough

just got back from the bar.
worked my arse off for 6 hours, and what do i get, a "you been great".
i hate that...
atleast come up with a cover story!