AntiM - that fucking sucks.
Hugs to you.
Fuck!
Aw fuck, I'm sorry to hear about your loss, Anti-M. Makes my own problems seem small...Fuck Blain's Farm & Fleet over on Stoughton Road!
I got pulled over the other week, just as I was pulling into the driveway to my building. Luckily the officer was sympathetic when I explained that my car hadn't been running most of the year, which was why I hadn't bothered to renew the plates, and that the roaring/missing after falling off in a supermarket parking lot shortly after I had got the car running again exhaust was scheduled to be taken care of on Thursdays.
Then came Thursday:
I got there ten minutes early for my appointment to have a new exhaust system put in, those ten minutes were taken up while waiting for their people to lethargically take care of the two people ahead of me, who were buying batteries and dropping off their old ones. When I got to the counter, the guy behind it seemed confused that someone would be there for an appointment to have their car worked on. Eventually, he located the part I had to special order when I was there last week. (That time it took them two hours to look at my car, come up with an estimate, and another 15 minutes to a half hour after I got back for them to locate the parts and figure out I needed to have a part special ordered and pay for it in advance.)
The guy came back to the counter, and told me that it would cost me $76 and change to have it installed. Since that was much lower than the amount I had been quoted earlier (something a bit under $500), I asked him if that was the amount for installing a whole new exhaust system. He looked surprised, and disappeared into the back for a while longer, and eventually returned with some of the parts, the paperwork which had been left by the people from when I made the appointment, and another guy, who was explaining to him that one of the parts from the list could not be installed by them. As it turned out, the part which COULD be put in my car cost more, and raised the price to a bit over $500...
They finally took a key for my car, and promised to call me when they were done, which should take an hour and a half. So I left and found that, although Farm & Fleet has a sidewalk out front, which is better than the other stores on that road, they do not shovel it in winter, which is exactly the same as everyone else on Stoughton Road. I made my way to another store.
About an hour and a half later, I got up from where I was doodling in that other store, and my cell phone rang. It was Farm & Fleet telling me that they had one of the parts wrong, and could not work on my car, after all, since they could not get the part today.
I walked back through the snow, and found out that someone was using a grinder in the auto shop, and the guy working at the auto shop counter talked really, really softly no matter what was going on. I finally got that their next opening was on Tuesday, and he wrote me in for that day. I had to ask him, what time on Tuesday, or can I just show up whenever I feel like it. He looked surprised and said something inaudible. I got him to repeat himself during a lull in the noise, and it turned out he had put me down for 8:30 in the morning. I explained to him I worked second shift, and 8:30 was too early. He asked what time was good for me, and I told him sometime after noon. As it turned out, that didn't work because they had two other people scheduled that day in the afternoon and evening. I guess they need to keep two of their bays open or something....
We then played a sort of roulette game with their schedule, and eventually I got an appointment scheduled for the 23rd at 3:30 in the afternoon.
About that time a second guy appeared behind the counter and started talking to the first guy about my car and, by overhearing them, I found out that it was the part they had me special order and pay for in advance which was the incorrect part.
I asked them if I could get a refund on the part, and the guy agreed. I then complained about the series of problems I had been having, and asked if this was why they were cheaper than the other places I had been to. The guy looked annoyed and said that if I continued to bad mouth the store, he would let me talk to his manager.
I told him I didn't care who I talked to, just so long as everything got taken care of. They finished up with the paperwork and sent me to the service desk, where I waited for a few minutes while the lone worker behind the desk finished with another customer. I would just as soon have received my refund in cash at this point, but it had to go to my debit card.
Finally able to leave, I went out through a door without looking at it, and overheard a couple of semi-inbred-looking guys make a snide remark about my going out through the "In" door. I located my car in the parking lot, wound down the windows, and left, still without a car I could drive safely for any distance.
I got pulled over the other week, just as I was pulling into the driveway to my building. Luckily the officer was sympathetic when I explained that my car hadn't been running most of the year, which was why I hadn't bothered to renew the plates, and that the roaring/missing after falling off in a supermarket parking lot shortly after I had got the car running again exhaust was scheduled to be taken care of on Thursdays.
Then came Thursday:
I got there ten minutes early for my appointment to have a new exhaust system put in, those ten minutes were taken up while waiting for their people to lethargically take care of the two people ahead of me, who were buying batteries and dropping off their old ones. When I got to the counter, the guy behind it seemed confused that someone would be there for an appointment to have their car worked on. Eventually, he located the part I had to special order when I was there last week. (That time it took them two hours to look at my car, come up with an estimate, and another 15 minutes to a half hour after I got back for them to locate the parts and figure out I needed to have a part special ordered and pay for it in advance.)
The guy came back to the counter, and told me that it would cost me $76 and change to have it installed. Since that was much lower than the amount I had been quoted earlier (something a bit under $500), I asked him if that was the amount for installing a whole new exhaust system. He looked surprised, and disappeared into the back for a while longer, and eventually returned with some of the parts, the paperwork which had been left by the people from when I made the appointment, and another guy, who was explaining to him that one of the parts from the list could not be installed by them. As it turned out, the part which COULD be put in my car cost more, and raised the price to a bit over $500...
They finally took a key for my car, and promised to call me when they were done, which should take an hour and a half. So I left and found that, although Farm & Fleet has a sidewalk out front, which is better than the other stores on that road, they do not shovel it in winter, which is exactly the same as everyone else on Stoughton Road. I made my way to another store.
About an hour and a half later, I got up from where I was doodling in that other store, and my cell phone rang. It was Farm & Fleet telling me that they had one of the parts wrong, and could not work on my car, after all, since they could not get the part today.
I walked back through the snow, and found out that someone was using a grinder in the auto shop, and the guy working at the auto shop counter talked really, really softly no matter what was going on. I finally got that their next opening was on Tuesday, and he wrote me in for that day. I had to ask him, what time on Tuesday, or can I just show up whenever I feel like it. He looked surprised and said something inaudible. I got him to repeat himself during a lull in the noise, and it turned out he had put me down for 8:30 in the morning. I explained to him I worked second shift, and 8:30 was too early. He asked what time was good for me, and I told him sometime after noon. As it turned out, that didn't work because they had two other people scheduled that day in the afternoon and evening. I guess they need to keep two of their bays open or something....
We then played a sort of roulette game with their schedule, and eventually I got an appointment scheduled for the 23rd at 3:30 in the afternoon.
About that time a second guy appeared behind the counter and started talking to the first guy about my car and, by overhearing them, I found out that it was the part they had me special order and pay for in advance which was the incorrect part.
I asked them if I could get a refund on the part, and the guy agreed. I then complained about the series of problems I had been having, and asked if this was why they were cheaper than the other places I had been to. The guy looked annoyed and said that if I continued to bad mouth the store, he would let me talk to his manager.
I told him I didn't care who I talked to, just so long as everything got taken care of. They finished up with the paperwork and sent me to the service desk, where I waited for a few minutes while the lone worker behind the desk finished with another customer. I would just as soon have received my refund in cash at this point, but it had to go to my debit card.
Finally able to leave, I went out through a door without looking at it, and overheard a couple of semi-inbred-looking guys make a snide remark about my going out through the "In" door. I located my car in the parking lot, wound down the windows, and left, still without a car I could drive safely for any distance.
"Nothing is withheld from us which we have conceived to do.
Do things that have never been done."
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Do things that have never been done."
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ygmir wrote:Maybe we could start a fucking stupid list?..DVD Burner wrote:ygmir wrote:I hate being stupid this early in the morning.
Better than being stupid all of the time.
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Don't make me moderate yer fucking butts.
My brother's viewing is today at the LDS hospital morgue. I can't go, I cannot handle that, but I should, for the family. Fuck. It is a teaching hospital and he'd asked to be donated. I hope they learn something useful about his cancer and conditions. The SIL should get the urn of ashes back in about two years. Fuck.
I did write up a memory of the Great Christmas Trip he and I took, make me happy and read it:
http://maggiemayday.blogspot.com/
My brother's viewing is today at the LDS hospital morgue. I can't go, I cannot handle that, but I should, for the family. Fuck. It is a teaching hospital and he'd asked to be donated. I hope they learn something useful about his cancer and conditions. The SIL should get the urn of ashes back in about two years. Fuck.
I did write up a memory of the Great Christmas Trip he and I took, make me happy and read it:
http://maggiemayday.blogspot.com/
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AntiM, I don't read all the threads anymore...I just skim through here but for some reason I read this thread this morning...and I learned what happened. Chas and I want to offer our condolences for your loss, and we wish you peace and inner strength in abundance in the days ahead.
Respectfully,
Jamie & Chasity
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(Boy, this page sure took fucking long enough to load. Maybe the landlord needs to wind the server's main spring...?)
(I think a fucking trickster god, or maybe a loa, is messing with me! I had Baron fucking Samedi, or one of his brothers, once show up in a dream before I even had any idea of who the fuck he was!
That was a real creepy dream, back about year 2000 or so.)
No, northern mid-west (Madison, Wisconsin area).-- which is part of the trouble with getting to the Burn. Almost exactly 2,000 miles one way. With the way gas prices were last summer, I would not have been able to afford the gas, even if it weren't move in week at the university where I work. (Now, if Burning Man were to move into the middle of one of the Great Lakes...)Hey BAS, are you in the Bay area?
Does that work for a fucking agnostic?Fuck Bas.....after reading your posts for the last couple years...have you ever concidered getting your Chakra's fucking realigned?
Having your houses cleaned up?
Having a witch doctor knock your inner peace lose?
(I think a fucking trickster god, or maybe a loa, is messing with me! I had Baron fucking Samedi, or one of his brothers, once show up in a dream before I even had any idea of who the fuck he was!
That was a real creepy dream, back about year 2000 or so.)"Nothing is withheld from us which we have conceived to do.
Do things that have never been done."
--Russell Kirsch
Do things that have never been done."
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FUCK!!
AntiM, thanks for sharing your post of the most excellent Christmas road trip. That's a really fucking beautiful story. Although I don't know you outside eplaya, I was very sorry to hear about your brother.
Your sentiment in the prior blogpost resonated with me:
Life is too short, far too short and often unfair. Grab that rascal and wring every drip drop possible from the wretched thing.
I will fucking make every effort. Wring, wring....
p.s. I wonder what the wandering toe-nibbling ferret was doing all alone at home while you guys were off on adventures...
looking for that ferret up to mischief I ran into this one below, which I thought needed to be shared. Those are some serious FUCKING ferret balls!
AntiM, thanks for sharing your post of the most excellent Christmas road trip. That's a really fucking beautiful story. Although I don't know you outside eplaya, I was very sorry to hear about your brother.
Your sentiment in the prior blogpost resonated with me:
Life is too short, far too short and often unfair. Grab that rascal and wring every drip drop possible from the wretched thing.
I will fucking make every effort. Wring, wring....
p.s. I wonder what the wandering toe-nibbling ferret was doing all alone at home while you guys were off on adventures...
looking for that ferret up to mischief I ran into this one below, which I thought needed to be shared. Those are some serious FUCKING ferret balls!
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AntiM... so very sorry to learn of your brother Larry's death. Please accept my sympathies and condolences. um I mean.. please accept my fucking sympathies and condolences.
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Maybe he need's his Feng Shui re-aligned.pinemom wrote:Fuck Bas.....after reading your posts for the last couple years...have you ever concidered getting your Chakra's fucking realigned?
Having your houses cleaned up?
Having a witch doctor knock your inner peace lose?
Oops, I mean, maybe he fucking needs his fucking Feng fucking Shui fucking realigned. Fucking A
Excuse me Ma'am, your going to feel a small prick.
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Next summer, late June. Lakes of Fire. South Haven, Michigan. Be there or be fucking square.BAS wrote:(Now, if Burning Man were to move into the middle of one of the Great Lakes...)
Excuse me Ma'am, your going to feel a small prick.
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