How about those type of calls in the public service while on speaker?FaceTime phone calls…
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Things that frustrate us all
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As long as you don't FaceTime with Jeffrey Tubin.
How about those type of calls in the public service while on speaker?
The store gets that occasionally.
The customer will take a meeting while the vehicle is being serviced, and, for whatever reason, chooses to have the whole lobby hear.
Why they can't walk across the street to the local coffee shop and do their business there, or, call someone to take them home, and come back when the vehicle is done, I'll never know.
Famously it was Google maps that caused those deaths
FaceTime phone calls…
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Facetime, I haven't heard that name in years I thought now it's Zoom or whatever the hell app people use.
I haven't heard the name Skype in years, and now it doesn't exist anymore 
. RIP my childhood
. RIP my childhood
TWO stories in this post.
So, I went to the Post Office this morning to mail something. They're closed. Why? "In Observance of Columbus Day".
Wait, what? Today is Monday the 14th. Columbus Day is 18th, Saturday -- a full five days away!
Why are they closed? I don't get it.
And putting aside what I (and hopefully any of you) think about Columbus, why do I care they are observing the day -- what does that mean to me or any other patron?
Are we reading that sign and breaking in in an enthusiastic clapping session looking Orsen Wells and something aloud, "Yes! Yes! Bloody good show, boys!"
So to further confuse us, this location is open Saturdays, so does that mean they'll be OPEN on Columbus Day??? Sign didn't say.
AND man, lazy fat ladies at a local place. They do next to nothing, have a four day work week -- one of which is closed to the public -- and yet one of them was like, "I'm glad I don't have to work Friday's, that's too much."
You mean like ... pretty much every single other person?
OMG, I have to do barely nothing for another day and get paid for it! Woe is me.
So, I went to the Post Office this morning to mail something. They're closed. Why? "In Observance of Columbus Day".
Wait, what? Today is Monday the 14th. Columbus Day is 18th, Saturday -- a full five days away!
Why are they closed? I don't get it.
And putting aside what I (and hopefully any of you) think about Columbus, why do I care they are observing the day -- what does that mean to me or any other patron?
Are we reading that sign and breaking in in an enthusiastic clapping session looking Orsen Wells and something aloud, "Yes! Yes! Bloody good show, boys!"
So to further confuse us, this location is open Saturdays, so does that mean they'll be OPEN on Columbus Day??? Sign didn't say.
AND man, lazy fat ladies at a local place. They do next to nothing, have a four day work week -- one of which is closed to the public -- and yet one of them was like, "I'm glad I don't have to work Friday's, that's too much."
You mean like ... pretty much every single other person?
OMG, I have to do barely nothing for another day and get paid for it! Woe is me.
Columbus Day is observed on the second Monday in October.
Trying to post something on a YouTube video or meme, then minimizing the app to get a quote. Then you return to it and the stupid app randomly resets itself, and the thing you wanted to post on disappears.
Well, now I feel like the idiot. All these years a local place has been closing on the 18th for CD, so I was always thinking the 18th was CD!
I didn't know it was still observed.
With Trump and MAGA, I'm not surprised
Never stopped. Was there for two administrative horrors or the Obamanator, and all threw the toroture of Bidinomics.
It is a federal holiday, observed the second Monday in October in the United States and less than half the states. It originally falls on October 12, commemorating Christopher Columbus's landing in the Americas on October 12, 1492, it is also recognized as Indigenous Peoples Day in some areas, reflecting a growing movement to honor Native American history. That way California state offices can still get a day off, and feel less guilty about the future pillaging and disease, caused by the European invaders to the rediscovered continent, that could be seen from Eastern Russia, and 500 years after the Vikings first arrived.
Yeah, Washington State also renamed it Indigenous Peoples Day at about the same time California did and that's how it's taught in school; which always gets the local conservatives radio/tv hosts riled up.
I thought Indigenous People Day was the day after Thanksgiving.
When it comes to Google Maps or any other navigation app, not everyone has unlimited data. So asking for directions "the old fashioned way" is just fine. I've come to appreciate more and more the mindset that it's good to start backing off of reliance on contemporary technology.
Kor
Kor
I think I've said this before, but as a delivery driver you had to learn to rely on "instincts" and not Google Maps in order to get around town.
Sometimes the quickest point between A and B is not a straight line.
Sometimes the quickest point between A and B is not a straight line.
This year, Indigenous People Day in the United States falls on Thanksgiving Day in Canada. Happy Thanksgiving to all you Canadians.
I had to help out some German Tourists a couple of years ago when they wound up in the old former gold rush town of La Grange, CA in the Mariposa County foothills, when a state highway road closure sent them there. They needed directions to the city of Sonora. They were in a rental car with no Satellite Navigation, and even if they had a cell phone with a data plan, the cell service in La Grange isn't very good.
