Things that frustrate us all
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LOL! Thanks! That made my day =)
I got a Win 10 PC at my office, a few days ago and other than a rain of frogs there's not much that can surprise me anymore.
Murphy's law is continuing its efforts to unsettle me (in vain, I might add
): on Tuesday the central heating malfunctioned - 15 mins before the janitor's end of shift, poor guy, and just when I intended to go to bed. That was a nice twist of the Murphyones, waiting till the last minute.
Yesterday the same happened, only it was the janitor's day off due to a public holiday. Murphy tried to make up for trying the same trick twice by additionally revealing that the new internal gear hub for my old bicycle fits the frame but not the shifter (I had overlooked that the latter is a different brand). Which means I must exchange that one, too.
Now let's see what Murphy has in store for me today. Frankly, anoying as these incidents may be, this continuing strain of bad luck does start to amuse me. You'd think that fate runs out of ideas after a few weeks but IIRC my longest Murphyonic series lasted 18 months.
I got a Win 10 PC at my office, a few days ago and other than a rain of frogs there's not much that can surprise me anymore.
Murphy's law is continuing its efforts to unsettle me (in vain, I might add
): on Tuesday the central heating malfunctioned - 15 mins before the janitor's end of shift, poor guy, and just when I intended to go to bed. That was a nice twist of the Murphyones, waiting till the last minute.Yesterday the same happened, only it was the janitor's day off due to a public holiday. Murphy tried to make up for trying the same trick twice by additionally revealing that the new internal gear hub for my old bicycle fits the frame but not the shifter (I had overlooked that the latter is a different brand). Which means I must exchange that one, too.
Now let's see what Murphy has in store for me today. Frankly, anoying as these incidents may be, this continuing strain of bad luck does start to amuse me. You'd think that fate runs out of ideas after a few weeks but IIRC my longest Murphyonic series lasted 18 months.
I hope this run of bad luck will be much shorter.LOL! Thanks! That made my day =)
I got a Win 10 PC at my office, a few days ago and other than a rain of frogs there's not much that can surprise me anymore.
Murphy's law is continuing its efforts to unsettle me (in vain, I might add
Yesterday the same happened, only it was the janitor's day off due to a public holiday. Murphy tried to make up for trying the same trick twice by additionally revealing that the new internal gear hub for my old bicycle fits the frame but not the shifter (I had overlooked that the latter is a different brand). Which means I must exchange that one, too.
Now let's see what Murphy has in store for me today. Frankly, anoying as these incidents may be, this continuing strain of bad luck does start to amuse me. You'd think that fate runs out of ideas after a few weeks but IIRC my longest Murphyonic series lasted 18 months.
When your coping mechanism is callobrated to a projected stress-end date that keeps changing, and there’s no prospect of stopping to change the oil.
Also realising that your job would be more fulfilling if you could write melodrama for a living, instead of code.
Also realising that your job would be more fulfilling if you could write melodrama for a living, instead of code.
Latest frustration:
When dumbasses like John McAfee start blathering about how the presidential alert we all got on our phones yesterday can somehow track you and control your phone (which they can't do - these alerts have absolutely no idea who OR where you are, they go out from cell towers to every mobile device in range).
When dumbasses like John McAfee start blathering about how the presidential alert we all got on our phones yesterday can somehow track you and control your phone (which they can't do - these alerts have absolutely no idea who OR where you are, they go out from cell towers to every mobile device in range).
Yesterday, a colleague (deliberately, I suspect) misquoted an expertise I wrote and based on that wrong statement gave permission to drain a whole mountain of every single drop of water. I managed to stop the permit at literally the last second. Grrr, I could kill the guy! I was so angry that I slept only 4 hours last night. Remembered it every time I woke up and anger keeps you alert and awake. I had no idea that I have such a large store of adrenaline.
Today the spare parts for my bicycle arrived and promptly one of the non-turn washers was missing (Murphy again LOL). Very nice service guy on the phone, though
He'll send me one at once. Now I just need a few stop nuts and lock nuts but I can get those at every DIY shop. (With my luck they'll be sold out LOL).
Today the spare parts for my bicycle arrived and promptly one of the non-turn washers was missing (Murphy again LOL). Very nice service guy on the phone, though
He'll send me one at once. Now I just need a few stop nuts and lock nuts but I can get those at every DIY shop. (With my luck they'll be sold out LOL).
Today in First World Problems...
I’m annoyed that I can’t come up with a good Halloween screen name.
Possibly because “Doom Shepherd” is Halloweeny enough already.
I thought about “Trump’s Severed Head” with the avatar of that famous Kathy Griffin picture, but that might be a bit much, especially outside of TNZ.
I’m annoyed that I can’t come up with a good Halloween screen name.
Possibly because “Doom Shepherd” is Halloweeny enough already.
I thought about “Trump’s Severed Head” with the avatar of that famous Kathy Griffin picture, but that might be a bit much, especially outside of TNZ.
Had enough of Tracphone's service. Got bumped down from 1.33gb for 3 months before, down to 1.24gb last time, and now those idiots lowered it to 1.15gb. So pissed right now. After this crap is over with... hoping to be able to move over to the service my mom goes through, Straight Talk via Walmart. She hasn't run into any problems data wise through them. And gets the $35 2gb data card, which is enough for what I do in Pokemon Go.
And... so tired of Walmart's random cart checks. Second time it's happened to my mom and I due to having items that cannot be bagged. They're too large!
But they have been scanned. Enough of the random checking bs!
And... so tired of Walmart's random cart checks. Second time it's happened to my mom and I due to having items that cannot be bagged. They're too large!
But they have been scanned. Enough of the random checking bs!
Hmm... your anger sleeps are longer than my regular weekday sleeps.
I think I'm doing something wrong.
I know what I am doing wrong: Getting older...
Had enough of Tracphone's service. Got bumped down from 1.33gb for 3 months before, down to 1.24gb last time, and now those idiots lowered it to 1.15gb. So pissed right now. After this crap is over with... hoping to be able to move over to the service my mom goes through, Straight Talk via Walmart. She hasn't run into any problems data wise through them. And gets the $35 2gb data card, which is enough for what I do in Pokemon Go.
And... so tired of Walmart's random cart checks. Second time it's happened to my mom and I due to having items that cannot be bagged. They're too large!
They check your carts?! I’d probably take my business to somewhere I’m not treated as a shoplifter. We’re charged for shopping bags here now so it’s not unusual to see people in the car park with a trolly full of loose goods. High value goods, and some cuts are tagged though, and we were stopped at the door when we set off the alarm with a tag on the jacket, but we were told how to disable it so it wouldn’t set off alarms.
I do tend have good experiences of supermarket customer service. One time I picked up a fifty pound bottle of fizz thinking it was twenty, and when I queried my receipt, they refunded thirty pound and let me keep the wine.
I know Costco do the whole cart checking thing, but I haven't had it anywhere else either (but UK too so...)
I know one of the supermarkets I go to have started putting tags on the shopping baskets now since charging for bags. Were people pinching the baskets to take the shopping home?
It wouldn’t surprise me. Stealing baskets.I know Costco do the whole cart checking thing, but I haven't had it anywhere else either (but UK too so...)
I know one of the supermarkets I go to have started putting tags on the shopping baskets now since charging for bags. Were people pinching the baskets to take the shopping home?
Word. Aldi does that here stateside. People have to pay for the bags, paper or plastic.
Well, it beats the alternative.
I probably do most of my shopping at Wal-Mart (in Canada), and I don't ever recall random cart checks. However, If I've paid at one of the checkouts not at the door (jewellery or electronics, say), then I'll voluntarily show them my receipt and contents of my bag on the way out, just so there are no issues.
Almost all stores around here charge 5 cents for plastic bags. (Some cashiers won't bother charging you for them, though.) I don't know anywhere that still offers paper.
You just need to go opposite. I could totally see you as "Sunshine Shepherd"...
Ah. It's 10 cents for plastic there, 79 for ones that keep items cold and a bit more than 10 cents for paper. (Aldi's that is)Well, it beats the alternative.
I probably do most of my shopping at Wal-Mart (in Canada), and I don't ever recall random cart checks. However, If I've paid at one of the checkouts not at the door (jewellery or electronics, say), then I'll voluntarily show them my receipt and contents of my bag on the way out, just so there are no issues.
Almost all stores around here charge 5 cents for plastic bags. (Some cashiers won't bother charging you for them, though.) I don't know anywhere that still offers paper.
You just need to go opposite. I could totally see you as "Sunshine Shepherd"...