Hi, Rae! Nice to see you...
Walter, Are you in hot water at home now?
Rae!!! How are you darlin'?
Yes, nice to see you again, Rae!
And your question was what again, Swimpy? :wink:
(Well, it settled a bit meanwhile.)
walter's favourite german entertainer
and he'll miss him because he'll be in NYC
hbg
i'm sure it's not "groenemeyer's" last performance in germany
I don't think so, he comes back any year (though not always with a tour).
Mrs. Walter slightly mentioned I could have done that with purpose.
But I honestly didn't. I just mixed up the months, how lame this might sound.
c.i. and i can always claim that we had "a senior moment" if we forget anything , but at walter's age that won't wash ... yet :wink:
Rae wrote:I now work at a discount outlet store and our clientele is vast. All of them are slobs...
Apparently they are half-vast.
Has anyone here ever heard of a corporation charging $3.00 for using your credit card to pay a bill? I don't think that I have ever been so angry. That's ATT for 'ya.
Such is done by a few here - which I avoid in such a case by transmitting the money directly from my banc account.
Totally minor one, but belongs more here than "random observations" probably...
Sozlet has a good group of friends now, and I like a lot of the parents, too. One girl is emerging as an especially good friend, she's a great kid, and I really like her mom. BUT -- her mom is a recent immigrant from Slovakia, and is not at all fluent in English. On the one hand we're instantly simpatico there -- we both understand what it's like to not be able to communicate as well or easily as we'd like. However, I can usually figure out how to lipread someone after a while, and she's proving to be just too tough of a nut to crack. There's the heavy accent, but there is also her word choices/ grammar -- I think she might be going in one direction but then it u-turns and I get totally lost.
Her English will improve, and I'll get to know her better, and eventually we'll be able to actually communicate, but for now it's so frustrating when we smile and start to talk and it goes nowhere, and if we're trying to arrange something rather than just chat we give up and say, "I'll send you an email..."
Wow, Soz, I can't even imagine how hard that must be!
Quote:Her English will improve, and I'll get to know her better, and eventually we'll be able to actually communicate, but for now it's so frustrating when we smile and start to talk and it goes nowhere, and if we're trying to arrange something rather than just chat we give up and say, "I'll send you an email..."
I have this problem with some people even though we ostensibly speak the same language without any readily discernable barriers to understanding...
As I was waiting to cross the street, a young indian woman ran across during a green light. As she got to the other side (my side) a car passed and a guy spat on her out of the window, nearly hitting me as well...I wanted to kick his lilly ass!!!
Oh, yuck, what stupid hatred.
Letty wrote:Has anyone here ever heard of a corporation charging $3.00 for using your credit card to pay a bill? I don't think that I have ever been so angry. That's ATT for 'ya.
Think that's bad? My new mortgage company called yesterday to try to talk me into paying my bill over the phone (direct withdrawal). After they told me all the reasons why I should prefer paying that way, they mentioned there would be a $20 charge each time. (That's when I hung up.)
I've been wincing at "Marines bans" all day long....
A three and a half hour wait at the clinic today. When I finally got to see somebody, she begged me to complain to the administration. Not enough time allotted for clinic hours. Of course, by the time it was my turn, the administration offices were closed. In fact, by the time I was finished with the exam, the clinic was closed.
Grrrrrrr.
Why is waiting so exhausting?
Roberta wrote:A three and a half hour wait at the clinic today. When I finally got to see somebody, she begged me to complain to the administration. Not enough time allotted for clinic hours. Of course, by the time it was my turn, the administration offices were closed. In fact, by the time I was finished with the exam, the clinic was closed.
Grrrrrrr.
Why is waiting so exhausting?
Frustration is tiring? One gets adrenalined up, and such?
dlowan wrote:Roberta wrote:A three and a half hour wait at the clinic today. When I finally got to see somebody, she begged me to complain to the administration. Not enough time allotted for clinic hours. Of course, by the time it was my turn, the administration offices were closed. In fact, by the time I was finished with the exam, the clinic was closed.
Grrrrrrr.
Why is waiting so exhausting?
Frustration is tiring? One gets adrenalined up, and such?
Godammed tile shop promised to have the tiles ready for pickup at 9 am.
Hung around the mall for two hours, still no tiles. They arrived at 3 pm.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Was totally exhausted that nite. Didn't even finish my beer. The bastards.
Circuit City laying off thousands to replace them with lower salaried employees. The laid-off workers will have the opportunity to apply for their old positions after ten weeks, but at the lower salary.
Dirty bastards. There ought to be a law against this.
I'm adding them onto my personal list of never-shopping-there-again retailers. Walmart, Macy's and now Circuit City.
