the pedant trap
LOVE that movie!
Mal: You are very much lacking in imagination. Zoe: I imagine that's so, sir.
'Out Of Gas'
Angel 5: Is That It? Am I Done?
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Frankenbuddha - Sep 10, 2004 10:23:23 am PDT #2305 of 3531
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
billytea - Sep 10, 2004 10:26:03 am PDT #2306 of 3531
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
LOVE that movie!
Aaand the trap has reset and awaits its next victim.
Vortex - Sep 10, 2004 11:06:24 am PDT #2307 of 3531
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Yes, I have complained to the Postmaster General. A short time later the carrier told me he didn't appreciate my complaints. Service got worse until he changed routes.
I feel your pain. My carrier likes to crumple, yes, literally crumple into a ball, the mail into the box. If it's too big to fit in the box, he doesn't want to climb the three flights and willl leave it downstairs easily in sight with my unsecured front door. For a while, I was consulting and working at home, and I was going to get an outside mailbox.
DCJensen - Sep 10, 2004 12:39:24 pm PDT #2308 of 3531
All is well that ends in pizza.
the pedant trap
LOVE that movie!
I like the one with "Brain Kieth."
libkitty - Sep 10, 2004 4:24:41 pm PDT #2309 of 3531
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
Got the DVDs at Costco yesterday. I had to hunt a bit; they only had six copies. After a full evening of trying to get my home computer to run (what made me think I could try Linux AND use a modem with very little techie experience?) managed to stay up late last night watching the first three eps. I missed a lot of eps that season (stupid local affiliate changing the airtime without warning!), so it's almost like new for me.
On the UPS horror stories: My dad ordered a computer for a friend. She was going to be out of town and she lives in a remote area, so he specified that it should not be delivered until after the day she was to return. They delivered the day after she left, and left it by her front door, which is not protected, rather than in one of the several protected areas nearby, or the open and empty garage. There was a huge rainstorm, and the computer was soaked and ruined. The computer company refused to replace it because it UPS's fault. UPS refused to replace because it was they had no records (it was a week and a half later, after she returned, that the complaint was lodged). What a mess. I have had excellent service from UPS other places (Thomas who delivers to UAA is WONDERFUL!), so I think it is location dependent.
LOVE the FedEx guy here. He tried to check with my neighbors, who are friends of his, about holding a package for me. When they weren't home, he looked me up in the State employee directory and called me at work to make delivery arrangements for me. Wonderful man.
brenda m - Sep 10, 2004 4:29:07 pm PDT #2310 of 3531
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Can't top that, but we did have a florist leave long-stem roses on the doorstep during -20 weather.
libkitty - Sep 10, 2004 4:36:23 pm PDT #2311 of 3531
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
I had forgotten a similar bad FedEx story. The flowers were left over the weekend in the hangar, when they were supposed to be delivered Friday. I think that may have been partially the florist's fault. Anyway, they were a little wilted, but not too bad, and I got another set for free a month later, so I was pretty ok with that.
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 11, 2004 7:35:29 am PDT #2312 of 3531
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Have I told the story of how UPS delivered my former roomie's humongous TV and stereo setup via a Sarah Michelle Gellar-sized deliverywoman the week after I threw my back out in '94? I mean, 75+ lbs. wouldn't have been that much trouble for me normally, but just bending over to lift it was agony, and she clearly arrived with no plan for moving the stuff if someone less able than she answered the door.
sumi - Sep 11, 2004 7:39:53 am PDT #2313 of 3531
Art Crawl!!!
Oh dear.
Checked Amazon -- my dvds arrived in Dekalb in the wee hours this morning.
Hmmm, call in sick? Big, giant sign?
Topic!Cindy - Sep 11, 2004 10:02:18 am PDT #2314 of 3531
What is even happening?
You don't look well, sumi.