'Day' is a vestigial mode of time measurement based on solar cycles. It's not applicable. I didn't get you anything.

River ,'Out Of Gas'


Natter 41: Why Do I Click on ita's Links?!  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


sarameg - Jan 06, 2006 11:45:23 am PST #8311 of 10002

Diet ginger ale!


Kate P. - Jan 06, 2006 11:45:48 am PST #8312 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

Holy shit, tommyrot! That's nuts.

I need to call Comcast and explain to them that it's not OK to charge me twice for one month's service, just because the primary name on the account changed. But in the meantime, I'm on hold with TracFone to try to switch my phone number and service from my crappy old phone to the new one. bleh. It seems so strange to me that there was once a time when you could fix things like this by actually going to an office somewhere and just talking to a live person.


Daisy Jane - Jan 06, 2006 11:46:01 am PST #8313 of 10002
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

Good lord, Daisy Jane. I just figured out who you are. Consider me slow.

The bar description give me away?

ETA: I have never ever been able to drink diet anything. I can almost smell the aftertaste- which is odd for a smoker.


tommyrot - Jan 06, 2006 11:48:15 am PST #8314 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

but I just feel like I'm getting reemed on the cost between in and my cable TV.

Well yeah, I know the feeling.

And then accidently charging me an extra $2500 and then saying "Sorry, but we have no record of that" would just send me into a tizzy.

Well, I've now got several people at Comcast trying to help - it sounds like they'll be able to reverse it.... as long as they do it before I have to run to the Amtrak station.

And to be fair to them, they thought the easiest thing for me would be to cancel the charge at my bank. Except my bank can't do that until the charge goes through. Once I told Comcast that, they started putting in more effort into trying to figure something out.


§ ita § - Jan 06, 2006 11:50:18 am PST #8315 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Ginger ale, not diet! I'm going to get that right now myself.

Verizon has been jacking me with inconsistent billing recently, but I just paid when they asked--nowhere near as much error as tommyrot, so I don't have to pay anything this month, and very little next.

In annoying billing, Adelphia kept threatening to cut off my service--I hadn't realised that my account # had changed, and I was electronically paying the old account. What a hassle to change it.

Water & Power on the other hand sent me a note to the effect of "You're paying to your old account, and we'll transfer the money this one time, but please stop." Adelphia required long investigation and lots of sighing and kvetching.


tommyrot - Jan 06, 2006 11:52:17 am PST #8316 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Water & Power on the other hand sent me a note to the effect of "You're paying to your old account, and we'll transfer the money this one time, but please stop."

Wow. A nice, helpful and common-sensical thing for them to do. Weird.


Jessica - Jan 06, 2006 11:53:28 am PST #8317 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Verizon kept trying to charge my expired credit card for 2 months, and instead of sending me a polite "Your credit card has expired" notice, they waited until 2 months had gone by and sent me a "WE WILL TURN YOUR PHONE OFF IF YOU DO NOT PAY!" notice instead. Very rude.

I'll probably be switching to Time Warner's digital phone this month, if they can schedule the appointment. It'll save me $25/month, plus get me DTV.


sarameg - Jan 06, 2006 11:53:44 am PST #8318 of 10002

Nondiet is too sweet, except when I have no choice. I also like it room temp because it doesn't taste as sweet that way. I'm particular.


tommyrot - Jan 06, 2006 11:54:39 am PST #8319 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

They are hunting for the errant transaction. I wanna say, "Dudes. Do none of you know how to do an SQL query?"


§ ita § - Jan 06, 2006 11:58:40 am PST #8320 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

There was no ginger ale! But I do have a brownie and ginger peach tea. I'll make do.