Complaint Box

[Xelda]

The pompoms are bona fide Blue and Silver cheerleading gear. I only tinker with euphemisms in the three word thread.

 

[Runwildboys]

The pompoms are bona fide Blue and Silver cheerleading gear. I only tinker with euphemisms in the three word thread.

What a shame

 

[Corso]

What a shame

Right there with you...

 

[Juggernaut]

My central air conditioner unit pooping the bed @ 9pm, on a Sunday, when we're experiencing the one or two 90 degree days that us Northerners get per year.

Now that's a complaint and a real nightmare I wouldn't want to experience, especially this time of year. A/C is a priority, right up there with food, water, shelter, and WiFi for myself. Good luck staying cool.

 

[Xelda]

My central air conditioner unit pooping the bed @ 9pm, on a Sunday, when we're experiencing the one or two 90 degree days that us Northerners get per year.

That's a big fear in the deep south. My thoughts are with you. Hope it's a minor fix.

 

[Quickdraw]

My central air conditioner unit pooping the bed @ 9pm, on a Sunday, when we're experiencing the one or two 90 degree days that us Northerners get per year.

For the few days we get hot and humid weather in upstate NY, I still love me some A/C. Just put a new one in last year. Man is it night and day compared to what I had. Nice and quiet and efficient.

Good luck with yours. It's hard to live without once you have it.

 

[TheBigEasy]

For the few days we get hot and humid weather in upstate NY, I still love me some A/C. Just put a new one in last year. Man is it night and day compared to what I had. Nice and quiet and efficient.

Good luck with yours. It's hard to live without once you have it.

I live in NW PA so we live through, pretty much, the same weather year round. People think I'm nuts when the temps get into the 70's and I'm cranking the AC unit on high especially at night. There's nothing worse than sweating while you sleep. Now, if you're sweating before you fall asleep, it's acceptable and known as a 'high-five moment' if you nomsayin'?

So the night that my AC unit started blowing hot air, I slept maybe two hours. Being an engineer, I spent a lot of the time trying to diagnose the problem because it was just too hot to sleep. On my way to work the following day, the wifey texts me saying that it working now. I'm like what the *****? The dang thing was messin' with me. I'm sure it was flippin' me the bird when I was driving away. Still had an HVAC guy come out and he couldn't find a problem. If I hate anything, it's having something fail on you, you take it to a 'specialist' to get it fixed, only to be told that there's 'nothing wrong'. They look at you like you're a meth head and are imagining it! LOL

 

[CouchCoach]

I can remember the days before we got a window AC but I try to forget them.

The invention of evaporative cooling and AC is one of the reasons people began to live longer. A lot of senior citizens died because of the heat/humidity and we've seen that happen in the last 20 years with that heat wave that hit St. Louis.

When I was in radio, we had fan drives for folks that either did not have AC or could not afford to use it in really high heat. A $200 power bill would wreck them. I was surprised at the number of people that included in the south.

I feel for thebigeasy because that's one of those things we easily take for granted as long as it's working.

 

[cowboyec]

just re-watched the Cowboys vs 49ers 1981 Nfc Title Game....

DAMN IT!!!!!
WHY IN THE HELL DID WE LET THAT GAME SLIP AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Xelda]

That was a heart breaker. Wasn't that the game where it had rained quite a bit? The 49ers field crew had a tarp over the field and when they moved it for the game, the water all went to our side of the field.

I wanted to watch a game while eating my lunch last week. I put the 49ers game on at the start of the 2014 season where Tony had back surgery in the off season. NOTHING would digest after watching that.

 

[CouchCoach]

just re-watched the Cowboys vs 49ers 1981 Nfc Title Game....

DAMN IT!!!!!
WHY IN THE HELL DID WE LET THAT GAME SLIP AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why don't you just watch the ending of "Saving Private Ryan" over and over?

 

[Juggernaut]

Complaint: Sitting here waiting for the 2018 Cowboys training camp to start...

 

[Runwildboys]

Complaint:

I'm in bed last night (Sunday 7/1) trying to fall asleep, but between a slightly too warm room temperature, my body aching and dehydrated from a few hours of yard work in 100° with 67% humidity, and the fact that I was up late Saturday night, I couldn't fall asleep.
After about three hours, I finally started to nod off....then BOOM!...awesome person neighbor sets off bottle rockets.
After a few minutes of silence, I decide, "Cool, they're not so inconsiderate as to keep lighting them."....and POP POP POPOPOPOPOP....POP!!!

I throw on shorts, and a tank top and storm on over, walking up their lawn barefoot, in the pitch black, not even caring what I'm stepping on. (Sticks and bark, I think)

As I step into the back yard, the wife is lighting another one.

If there's one thing that makes me lose my friggin' mind, it's when people interfere with my sleep, so I went off.

"EXCUSE ME! Would you please STOP WITH THE ****ING FIREWORKS!!!!"
She informs me that she has children there in the pool, and I inform her that I don't care.
She tells me it's still early (10:30), and she's not doing anything illegal, and I tell her no, it's not and yes, yes she is!
I tell her I have to get up in less than four hours and drive 20, 000 lbs. of lumber to NYC.

She says it's not her fault I have to get up early, and I tell her she's right, but it IS her fault that I can't sleep!

She says I'm the only one who ever complains, to which I tell her again, I don't care.

She says "It's the 4th of July, everyone's doing it!".... I said, "No, it's not, and no they aren't."
She says, "I sat here last night and watched some right over there."
I said, "Yes, on Saturday night, when people don't have have to get up the next day!"

There's more, but I'm getting aggravated thinking about it.

I hate people.

 

[Aviano90]

Complaint: It is with increasing frequency in which problems arise while trying to conduct basic transactions with companies. Issues occurred in the past but they were fewer and further in between. I'm getting to the point where I want to stop spending my money because I don't want to deal with the problems that will arise with the transaction.

Example: My daughter turned 12 and I took her to get her first cell phone at Verizon. They had a promotion. Buy one Iphone, get another free, with trade in and you have to add a line to the account. I can also upgrade to unlimited data $40 per line (4 total lines) and be cheaper than paying for 18GB ($100) + the $20 line fee for each phone that I was on ($80). No problem, let's do it...$160 is better than $180 AND I get unlimited data to boot. What a deal!!!

The clerk advises I should pay off my remaining balance on my cell phone trade in because I only owed $32, but would get $170 credit if I traded it in when fully paid off. I'll gladly pay $32 to get $170 credit. That's $138 in my favor. This is too good to be true!!!

OK, trade my phone in, get my daughter's phone activated and take her to dinner.

Next month the bill comes. I'm charged $45 per line for unlimited instead of $40 and I'm being charged for both cell phones and my $170 credit for the trade in is not applied. Have to call Verizon. In order to get $40 a month you have to have automatic payments. Well, I've been on automatic payments for ~15 years. Oh, you're right sir. You have to be automatic payments with a bank account, not a credit card. No problem, switch it over and draft from my bank.

Oh, and you have to pay for your phone for a few months before the BOGO credit gets applied and it takes a few months before your trade in credit applies.

Fast forward 4 months and 5 different conversations, the BOGO credit finally appears on my account but they say I don't qualify for the $170 trade in credit. Of course, this doesn't sit well and I have to act like an ***, but finally got them to apply the credit a couple days ago.

This is just one example and I have example after example of issues that really don't need to be issues. It's becoming a hassle to keep companies honest and just have them execute on what should be run of the mill transactions for them.

 

[Juggernaut]

Complaint: Two weeks until training camp starts...

 

[Xelda]

Complaint:

I'm in bed last night (Sunday 7/1) trying to fall asleep, but between a slightly too warm room temperature, my body aching and dehydrated from a few hours of yard work in 100° with 67% humidity, and the fact that I was up late Saturday night, I couldn't fall asleep.
After about three hours, I finally started to nod off....then BOOM!...awesome person neighbor sets off bottle rockets.
After a few minutes of silence, I decide, "Cool, they're not so inconsiderate as to keep lighting them."....and POP POP POPOPOPOPOP....POP!!!

I throw on shorts, and a tank top and storm on over, walking up their lawn barefoot, in the pitch black, not even caring what I'm stepping on. (Sticks and bark, I think)

As I step into the back yard, the wife is lighting another one.

If there's one thing that makes me lose my friggin' mind, it's when people interfere with my sleep, so I went off.

"EXCUSE ME! Would you please STOP WITH THE ****ING FIREWORKS!!!!"
She informs me that she has children there in the pool, and I inform her that I don't care.
She tells me it's still early (10:30), and she's not doing anything illegal, and I tell her no, it's not and yes, yes she is!
I tell her I have to get up in less than four hours and drive 20, 000 lbs. of lumber to NYC.

She says it's not her fault I have to get up early, and I tell her she's right, but it IS her fault that I can't sleep!

She says I'm the only one who ever complains, to which I tell her again, I don't care.

She says "It's the 4th of July, everyone's doing it!".... I said, "No, it's not, and no they aren't."
She says, "I sat here last night and watched some right over there."
I said, "Yes, on Saturday night, when people don't have have to get up the next day!"

There's more, but I'm getting aggravated thinking about it.

I hate people.

I don't understand why fireworks are still legal. My dogs think the apocalypse is happening when people start lighting the fireworks. I hate them, I hate the places that sell them and the rude interruptions of our peace.

 

[Londonboy]

England suck at Footie.

 

[Ranched]

That was a heart breaker. Wasn't that the game where it had rained quite a bit? The 49ers field crew had a tarp over the field and when they moved it for the game, the water all went to our side of the field.

I wanted to watch a game while eating my lunch last week. I put the 49ers game on at the start of the 2014 season where Tony had back surgery in the off season. NOTHING would digest after watching that.

It sure was. Along with soooo many other games. What hurts me the most watching our Boys, is when they lose by a FG.

 

[Runwildboys]

I don't understand why fireworks are still legal. My dogs think the apocalypse is happening when people start lighting the fireworks. I hate them, I hate the places that sell them and the rude interruptions of our peace.

They're not legal here.

 

[Aviano90]

Complaint:

I'm in bed last night (Sunday 7/1) trying to fall asleep, but between a slightly too warm room temperature, my body aching and dehydrated from a few hours of yard work in 100° with 67% humidity, and the fact that I was up late Saturday night, I couldn't fall asleep.
After about three hours, I finally started to nod off....then BOOM!...awesome person neighbor sets off bottle rockets.
After a few minutes of silence, I decide, "Cool, they're not so inconsiderate as to keep lighting them."....and POP POP POPOPOPOPOP....POP!!!

I throw on shorts, and a tank top and storm on over, walking up their lawn barefoot, in the pitch black, not even caring what I'm stepping on. (Sticks and bark, I think)

As I step into the back yard, the wife is lighting another one.

If there's one thing that makes me lose my friggin' mind, it's when people interfere with my sleep, so I went off.

"EXCUSE ME! Would you please STOP WITH THE ****ING FIREWORKS!!!!"
She informs me that she has children there in the pool, and I inform her that I don't care.
She tells me it's still early (10:30), and she's not doing anything illegal, and I tell her no, it's not and yes, yes she is!
I tell her I have to get up in less than four hours and drive 20, 000 lbs. of lumber to NYC.

She says it's not her fault I have to get up early, and I tell her she's right, but it IS her fault that I can't sleep!

She says I'm the only one who ever complains, to which I tell her again, I don't care.

She says "It's the 4th of July, everyone's doing it!".... I said, "No, it's not, and no they aren't."
She says, "I sat here last night and watched some right over there."
I said, "Yes, on Saturday night, when people don't have have to get up the next day!"

There's more, but I'm getting aggravated thinking about it.

I hate people.

I live right outside the city limits of San Antonio and there are no noise ordinances or restrictions on fireworks. We have a lot of fireworks stands on the roads around the neighborhood because they have to be sold outside the city limits. The people in my neighborhood put on a very impressive July 4th and NYE firework show. NYE literally looks like an hour long grand finale and the entire neighborhood is lit up.

The problem is there will be random people popping fireworks a good week before and after the actual holiday. The fireworks themselves don't bother me, but my dog is terrified of them. She hides behind the couch all night and won't go outside after hearing the first firework. I need to make sure I feed her and get her outside before it gets dark and hope someone doesn't start early. As a result, I dread those 2 holidays.