The 'Eat Your Food and Like It' Complaint Thread

1929394959698»

Comments

  • SilverGirlSilverGirl Posts: 3,623

    garrett_3d said:

    These things any good for little dude? $10 at Target

    https://www.target.com/p/gems-portable-desk-fan-white/-/A-94419240?TCID=OGS&AFID=google&CPNG=Electronics&adgroup=56-0

    Those are cool... I would be worried about the articulating head being a point of failure (he's still learning that things falling can make them break, and doesn't think ahead that way), and the reviews say it's on the loud side.  Thanks for thinking of him, though, that's so kind! 

    For anyone curious, this is the one we've got: so far it's held up quite well. High mode gets about two hours of battery life, charging takes about four, so I've got three units and we rotate. 

    https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F1NJXBPT

  • SilverGirlSilverGirl Posts: 3,623

    Noncomplaint: Today Little Dude locked me out of the house while I was briefly in the garage.

    I'm filing this under good things because it means he realizes the door is meant to be locked, and also because I had a key to get back in, so that's a great time to discover it could happen. Also that it was me who got locked out and not Teen Kiddo.

    I did have a good laugh over it, though. He's an elopement risk, so here I'm hyper-vigilant about making sure he doesn't get out... and I wind up with the opposite problem.

    Always an adventure!

  • garrett_3dgarrett_3d Posts: 405
    edited 6:55AM

    COMPLAINT: Auto-renewed Premier two weeks ago and now there's a 50% off sale angry

    NON-COMPLAINT: 24% off gift cards laugh

    COMPLAINT: https://www.daz3d.com/steampunk-alley is nearly twice the price of similar recent new releases angry

    NON-COMPLAINT: Picked up https://www.daz3d.com/lakehaven for $4.94 laugh

    Post edited by garrett_3d at
  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 5,847

    Non-Complaint: Two-factor authentication, it is a pain until it comes through for you. And it did for me on my back-up email account during the night. When I signed in, I found a slew of scams and crap where accounts were sending lures for me to click from the UK and other countries. The UK seemed to be more focused on bogus medical news. The other countries, my SSA account, taxes, and well I am sure you all can guess whatever else. 

    But, my point is, put up with the two-factor authentication. It does save you.

    @SilverGirl, I learned that lesson with my last apartment where we had a third roommate. I had slipped out of our garage with the trash real quick and he had been out with his dog Bugsy for the morning walk/smoke. In 20 seconds I was out of sight, he closed the garage. It was still early morning dark, in the negative temps, snow and ice, and I was in my early morning comfy pants, tee, flannel and no apartment keys or cell phone. It took both roommates over 15 minutes before they realized I was missing and they opened the garage door. I never left the apartment after that without keys, even today. Of course, now that roommate left us, and Bugsy, and we live elsewhere, and a resident across from me gets too many visits from the cops for me to be comfortable. I take trash out, go check mail, I lock the door.

    Complaint: Yesterday as I drove for dinner stuff I thought it would suck to get in a car accident on my birthday (74) and went into the store. Walking back to my van, I noticed something off on the right front wheel cover. A dent, scratch and realized that at some point, someone had pulled into a parking spot next to me and rammed that point of my van hard enought to dent it in. 

  • XyetztXyetzt Posts: 27,493

    Wow! My internet was out since the first of month or maybe Sunday?  I thought this thread would turn around by this time.

    I did get my internet back up last night.  Dealing with a lot of BS. I have been called stubborn when I try to be honest. If I cannot do it, I cannot do it.  Will power does not solve everything, not sure if it can solve anything.  If will power was enough, I would not have weight issues right now.

  • FrankTheTankFrankTheTank Posts: 1,565

    Why do they call them manholes if women are the ones always falling into them? 

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,312

    FrankTheTank said:

    Why do they call them manholes if women are the ones always falling into them? 

    Built by men desperate to catch a woman?  Perhaps it's a filter to keep the larger ones out? indecision

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,312

    Non-complaint:  Wanderlust satisfied for a while.  Teeth all cleaned again.yes

    Complaint:  Dentist is still advising a root canal sometime "soon".frown

    Non-complaint:  After three weeks avoiding a major grocery adventure, I now have a full refrigerator again.  Yay, fresh fruit, unfrozen meat, eggs, milk, real orange juice, cottage cheese, various cheeses, salad greens.yes  I can put away the cans for a while.smiley

    Complaint:  With dentist cleaning bill and groceries, budget is a "C"-note" into the red again and I still have two weeks until "payday".frown  Don't tell me the economy's running just fine.cheeky

  • butterflyfishbutterflyfish Posts: 1,614

    memcneil70 said:

    Complaint: Yesterday as I drove for dinner stuff I thought it would suck to get in a car accident on my birthday (74) and went into the store. Walking back to my van, I noticed something off on the right front wheel cover. A dent, scratch and realized that at some point, someone had pulled into a parking spot next to me and rammed that point of my van hard enought to dent it in. 

    Hope you had an otherwise wonderful birthday. 

  • SilverGirlSilverGirl Posts: 3,623

    memcneil70 said:

    @SilverGirl, I learned that lesson with my last apartment where we had a third roommate. I had slipped out of our garage with the trash real quick and he had been out with his dog Bugsy for the morning walk/smoke. In 20 seconds I was out of sight, he closed the garage. It was still early morning dark, in the negative temps, snow and ice, and I was in my early morning comfy pants, tee, flannel and no apartment keys or cell phone. It took both roommates over 15 minutes before they realized I was missing and they opened the garage door. I never left the apartment after that without keys, even today. Of course, now that roommate left us, and Bugsy, and we live elsewhere, and a resident across from me gets too many visits from the cops for me to be comfortable. I take trash out, go check mail, I lock the door.

    Complaint: Yesterday as I drove for dinner stuff I thought it would suck to get in a car accident on my birthday (74) and went into the store. Walking back to my van, I noticed something off on the right front wheel cover. A dent, scratch and realized that at some point, someone had pulled into a parking spot next to me and rammed that point of my van hard enought to dent it in. 

     

    I'm so sorry about your van! What a sucky addition to a birthday. Hope it was otherwise (besides the spam issue) a good one!

    And yeah, I don't go out of the house without keys. About a year after I moved in, I went out onto the balcony at one point and closed the door behind me... not knowing that the sliding glass door had a quirk that if you shut it too forcefully, it locked itself. So there's me standing on the balcony in my pajamas with the cats looking at me through the door all confused and concerned. I wound up climbing over the rail and making a jump for the ground, then knocking on the door of the elderly fellow who shared my driveway and asking if I could use his phone to call my parents to bring the extra key over (my then-husband was at a business trip out of state). I was laughing to my parents like "well thank goodness I had pants on" and my neighbor was all "eh, I would've handed you a bathrobe." 

    Probably wouldn't have even blinked. That guy was pure awesome. One of those folks who, even though they lived a long, full life, was still gone far too soon.

    But yeah, after that I got a keypad entry for the garage and hid a spare key amongst all the garage stuff in a spot that's awkward as heck to get to, but at least it's there if it's needed.

  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 5,847

    SilverGirl said:

    memcneil70 said:

    @SilverGirl, I learned that lesson with my last apartment where we had a third roommate. I had slipped out of our garage with the trash real quick and he had been out with his dog Bugsy for the morning walk/smoke. In 20 seconds I was out of sight, he closed the garage. It was still early morning dark, in the negative temps, snow and ice, and I was in my early morning comfy pants, tee, flannel and no apartment keys or cell phone. It took both roommates over 15 minutes before they realized I was missing and they opened the garage door. I never left the apartment after that without keys, even today. Of course, now that roommate left us, and Bugsy, and we live elsewhere, and a resident across from me gets too many visits from the cops for me to be comfortable. I take trash out, go check mail, I lock the door.

    Complaint: Yesterday as I drove for dinner stuff I thought it would suck to get in a car accident on my birthday (74) and went into the store. Walking back to my van, I noticed something off on the right front wheel cover. A dent, scratch and realized that at some point, someone had pulled into a parking spot next to me and rammed that point of my van hard enought to dent it in. 

     

    I'm so sorry about your van! What a sucky addition to a birthday. Hope it was otherwise (besides the spam issue) a good one!

    And yeah, I don't go out of the house without keys. About a year after I moved in, I went out onto the balcony at one point and closed the door behind me... not knowing that the sliding glass door had a quirk that if you shut it too forcefully, it locked itself. So there's me standing on the balcony in my pajamas with the cats looking at me through the door all confused and concerned. I wound up climbing over the rail and making a jump for the ground, then knocking on the door of the elderly fellow who shared my driveway and asking if I could use his phone to call my parents to bring the extra key over (my then-husband was at a business trip out of state). I was laughing to my parents like "well thank goodness I had pants on" and my neighbor was all "eh, I would've handed you a bathrobe." 

    Probably wouldn't have even blinked. That guy was pure awesome. One of those folks who, even though they lived a long, full life, was still gone far too soon.

    But yeah, after that I got a keypad entry for the garage and hid a spare key amongst all the garage stuff in a spot that's awkward as heck to get to, but at least it's there if it's needed.

    I needed that laugh! Just posted my issue with metadata not loaded on ten new purchases after downloaded by DIM. Since my flatmate and I are not intimate friends (boy did I have to keep repeating that to the staff at the hospital) I am generally dressed enough so I won't embarrass him or me.  

  • SilverGirlSilverGirl Posts: 3,623

    memcneil70 said:

    SilverGirl said:

    And yeah, I don't go out of the house without keys. About a year after I moved in, I went out onto the balcony at one point and closed the door behind me... not knowing that the sliding glass door had a quirk that if you shut it too forcefully, it locked itself. So there's me standing on the balcony in my pajamas with the cats looking at me through the door all confused and concerned. I wound up climbing over the rail and making a jump for the ground, then knocking on the door of the elderly fellow who shared my driveway and asking if I could use his phone to call my parents to bring the extra key over (my then-husband was at a business trip out of state). I was laughing to my parents like "well thank goodness I had pants on" and my neighbor was all "eh, I would've handed you a bathrobe." 

    Probably wouldn't have even blinked. That guy was pure awesome. One of those folks who, even though they lived a long, full life, was still gone far too soon.

    But yeah, after that I got a keypad entry for the garage and hid a spare key amongst all the garage stuff in a spot that's awkward as heck to get to, but at least it's there if it's needed.

    I needed that laugh! Just posted my issue with metadata not loaded on ten new purchases after downloaded by DIM. Since my flatmate and I are not intimate friends (boy did I have to keep repeating that to the staff at the hospital) I am generally dressed enough so I won't embarrass him or me.  

    I'm not the lacy lingerie type in general (unlike many people, I do actually like pants) so it wasn't really a possibility, it was just funny to think about. Meanwhile the neighbor's all "Hey, going to be a bit until they get here, would you like some tea?" 

    It wasn't winter, thankfully, and at worst I would've had to walk down the street to the little neighborhood strip mall and ask the folks at the tiny liquor store there to use their phone. As far as awkward and inconvenient situations go, it was definitely a best-case scenario. Even at the time I was laughing at the absurdity of it... glad it could bring you a chuckle, too. :)

  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 5,847

    You are very lucky. Nice neighbor and area.

    That apartment building we lived in had a low income apartment complex next to us with three gangs who had set up shop. They would have shootouts sometimes. But across the street was a small strip mall and some of the stores had some rather unsavory customers. Our balcony looked out onto it. We were standing on it one afternoon when someone just drove right over a curb and busted out the picture window and glass door of the pizza place. Just missed hitting a guy. We were warned never to use our cards there, only cash, they had a skimmer. And that was an expensive apartment complex! Our current place may not be as pretty, but it has a better overall safety level I appreciate. Though you still have to be cautious.

Sign In or Register to comment.