Pointless.

Yep.

I have ideas.  They’re just on paper.

It’s getting cold outside…

So get a SNUGGIE!  No, really… isn’t this just a bathrobe?  Wow the things people come up with!

Taking candy from strangers

Happy Halloween!

Okay, now, does anyone not find it odd that on Halloween we encourage kids to go door-to-door asking complete strangers for candy?  Sometimes those strangers are really neighbors that you know.  But sometimes, people take their kids to different neighborhoods because there is more candy given out there and THOSE people are usually strangers.  Weird, no?  This is not safe, is it?  Teaching kids to accept candy from people they don’t know and trust?

And on the other side of that, don’t you think it’s kind of scary to open your door to people dressed in costume asking YOU for candy?  Especially if they have a mask on… how do you know who is really under that costume.  What if they mug you?  Barge into your house?  Demand more than just candy?

Oh wait.

You don’t live in Upper Darby.

And that is why our lights are off tonight.

Recent shopping fails

1) After waiting all summer to go fall shopping at Old Navy, last weekend the day finally came. For at least two weeks prior to fall shopping day, I had perused Old Navy’s website at least a dozen times, making note of the items I wanted. Don’t ya know I arrived at Old Navy and quickly realized that a) the store was in a complete disarray from a recent sale and b) they had NONE of the items that I had waited so long to buy. FAIL.

2) After purchasing some basic items at Old Navy on fall shopping day, I was told that I was able to receive a 10% off coupon if I went online and completed a customer satisfaction survey. I decided to go home and do the survey so I could use the 10% for an online purchase – that way I could still get the items I had been planning on for so long and hi discount. Go home. Complete the survey, only to realize that my hand dandy promo code is only valid IN STORES. From an ONLINE SURVEY. What? How? FAIL.

3) I had to go to the grocery store this morning, to pick up some items for a friend. Only as I’m walking up to the entrance, I notice that the shopping cart docking station is completely empty. Not one shopping cart could be found. I had to retrace my steps and travel half-way back across the parking lot in search of a cart. Where could all of these carts have been early on a Thursday morning?!?! FAIL.

Summary: 3 shopping fails within 1 wk.

SPAM

Gmail is very, very good at putting my spam mail in the spam folder and I never look at it.  Today, however, I took a peek because I was awaiting an email from someone and I was afraid it might have ended up in there.  I did not see the email I was waiting for but I did see these interesting email subjects: (my comments in italics)

• Your wife need attention?  Solve all your problems with IT. (What is IT going to do?  Put porn on your computer?  Get you in the mood?)
• you don’t believe in better s(e)>’<u@l life? (LAMO, okay, that is the funniest way to spell “sexual”)
• Today from Norris: Ask and it will be given (Chuck Norris?  I asked and it was not given)
• Can male problems be solved in a day?  Yes they can (HAHAHHAHA…. I THINK NOT)
• If you wife needs your attention, you can help her anytime (Dammit, I DON’T HAVE A WIFE!)
• Are you ready to buy your medzz at cheapest priceson market (Hmmm… looks like whoever typed this was on some medzz at the time)
• Become a lazy google millionaire (YES PLEASE!)
• Hello ! Look it and show nobody please (Look at what…?)
• Grow 4 inches today (Yes, I’d like to be taller!  That is what you are talking about, right?  Height?  No? What?!)
• Attention – Important Announcement 157 (Wow, you sure do have a lot of important announcements)
• Good morning . I love when you look after me (Oh, my pleasure)
• How much cash do you need… (A LOT and FAST)
• What it would be like, having more health in 4 weeks, with ultimate improving supply? (Huh?)
• Godzilla will be jealous (He better be!)

Also, did you know, that in 1959, SPAM produced it’s 1 billionth can?!

Contact Us (if you want to be ignored)

Have you ever had to contact a company or provide feedback as a consumer? You would think that these businesses would trip over themselves to make sure that the experience you have with them is a positive one, or to at least profusely apologize for any negative setbacks you might have suffered. But two recent fiascos of mine prove that this isn’t so.

I signed up to be a member of this online surveying company, where they would send me a few e-mails a day, informing me that I had various ads to review in my site inbox. So I’d follow the link, sign in, and click on some urls and earn two cents a pop. Wasn’t quick money by any means, but I didn’t mind doing it, and it seemed like the longer I was a member, the more ads I was sent.

One day a few weeks ago, I was checking my e-mail while at work (which I do quite often). I received a message from this ad reviewing company and followed the usual process to earn my pennies. I had a whopping 14 ads to view that morning, so I immediately got down to business. Unfortunately, about five ads in, something unusual happened. One of the links led me to a page where various porn started popping up. ON MY WORK COMPUTER. Needless to say I was rattled and furious. I immediately send feedback via the Contact Us page, informing the company that I was put out and would be cancelling my membership. Which I did. Did I ever hear back from them? Nope.

Last Friday I decided to add the Family Allowances feature on my T-mobile account This way I could set a talk minutes/texts allowance for my brother, who’s line I pay for, because he has the rather inconsiderate habit of going over our allotted maximums so I have to fork out extra cash (he’s a deadbeat). So I signed up for Family Allowances (FA), cackling all the while, the upgrade goes through, I’m texted a url where I can sign in and get started to set up my FA features, only the link doesn’t work and I can’t get to my FA set-up.

So I decided to contact them. I sent the following message, not verbatum but: Since I recently signed up for and am now paying for the Family Allowances feature, it would be really great if I could actually access it. I followed the link you sent me but the page will not load, instead it sends me to my default Mytmobile page. I tried accessing FA from your main site, but that only leads me to the page that allows me to sign up for the feature. Fail.

Did I get a response to that one? Nadda.

Doesn’t really matter though. Because my two doses of feedback leave me feeling accomplished. I spoke my mind, contacted them, and got my word out. And any time I can use win or fail in a professional sense = epic victory.

No no no no no no NO!

I recently signed up for a free membership with freecreditreport.com so I could access my free credit report and score. FOR FREE.

So the whole schpeal with this is that you only have a free trial membership for 7 days and before the end of that term, you need to call and cancel your membership so you’re not charged a fee.

I decided to call today before I left work. After being on hold for a few minutes, cheesy waiting music and all, I’m put through to a foreign representative who I can barely understand. After giving him the required info, I nicely tell him that I’d like to cancel my account. He proceeds to go into this long explanation of what their services can do for me.

Yes, I know, but I still want to cancel. He gives me another diatribe to try and persuade me to stick with their services (thereby securing them my hard-earned moolah). I, again, politely refuse and say I would really just like the cancel my membership.

He asks me why I signed up with them in the first place and I was honest, saying I just wanted access to a free credit report and score. He goes into ANOTHER explanation of what they can offer me and I finally cut him off, though still being pleasant, and tell him I’m really not interested and just want to cancel.

He ends with, “Fine. Your membership has been cancelled. Goodbye.” And hangs up on me.

…man, to be a telemarketer (or those poor folk who they get snooty with).

BFFs Pt. 3

Okay, I did not want to post another entry about this but hey! this blog is primarily pointless so I can post what I want! This was too cute to not share:

Julie: Kyle, best friends sit on each other’s lap.

Kyle: *ignoring her*

Julie: Kyle, do you want to sit in my lap? You should sit in my lap.

Whoa! Bold!

I will have something more pointless soon, promise.

I’m so hungry I could eat a cow! Oh wait…I already did…

You know how there are those age old questions? How can your nose be stuffy and runny at the same time? Why doesn’t glue stick to the inside of the bottle? When it rains, why don’t sheep shrink? If you eat a huge dinner, why do you wake up starving the next morning?

Well, after some handy dandy googling, I have an answer for the last one. When you eat a huge dinner or a large meal before bed, your stomach kicks into digestive mode and works all night to burn off that energy (glucose or something? dunno) so then when you wake up in the morning your stomach is empty and all sorts of digested out and needs some nom noms. Whereas if you ate a small dinner or nothing at all, when you go to bed your stomach is on off mode or fasting and remains that way soon after you wake up.

So, who knows, all of this could be complete bull but it’s a good enough answer for me.

BFFs? Pt. 2

Conversation I overheard between 3 & 4 year olds. Names have been changed to avoid further injury of any feelings.

Julie: Kyle! Kyle PARKER! You’re my best friend, right?

Kyle: No, sorry. Susie is my new best friend.

Julie: No, you’re my best friend! You’ve been saying it all day! YOU’RE MY BEST FRIEND!

Sam: Kyle, you’re my best friend, right?

Daniel: Sam, you’re my best friend!

*Father of a child comes into the room to pick up his son*

Julie: Hey, my name is Julie and Kyle is my boyfriend!

*Father is oblivious*

Julie: My name is Julie and KYLE IS MY BOYFRIEND!!!

Clearly, him telling her that he was not her BFF did not mean anything to her. It really starts at a young age. Aren’t girls like this when they’re 17? It’s so funny to watch.