Steph isn't the only person having issues at car dealerships.
I don't really have a security blanket... unless you count Mr. Pointy.
Buffy ,'Lessons'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Polter-Cow - Aug 22, 2009 9:03:34 pm PDT #20474 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Shir - Aug 22, 2009 11:23:59 pm PDT #20475 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Happy birthdays, congratulations and ~ma. Phew, busy weekend.
I'm relatively awake now. Shame I don't wanna work.
Calli - Aug 23, 2009 2:50:12 am PDT #20476 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Is teaching babies to sign a thing? I've been reading about various people doing this and thinking that their children have an unfortunate hearing issue that they're just not discussing. But there seem to be rather a lot. I hope everyone's kids' hearing is ok.
Laura - Aug 23, 2009 2:51:51 am PDT #20477 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
GI Joe was far better flick.
That is a surprise. I was going to take some kids to see it but the reviews scared me away. I should know better.
billytea - Aug 23, 2009 3:23:12 am PDT #20478 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Is teaching babies to sign a thing? I've been reading about various people doing this and thinking that their children have an unfortunate hearing issue that they're just not discussing. But there seem to be rather a lot. I hope everyone's kids' hearing is ok.
We're considering doing it for Ryan. It's not full ASL or anything like that; rather it's just signs for things like "food", "hurt", "more", concepts like that. The advantage is that kids understand a vocabulary before they can vocalise the words. Teaching them some signs lets them start communicating when they're hungry, hurt, bored, tired etc earlier. It has no lasting benefits in proper language development - it's all too simple for that - but it might make things smoother for the kiddie until they can talk too.
Jessica - Aug 23, 2009 3:44:52 am PDT #20479 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
What billytea said - the cognitive ability to communicate develops more or less at the same time as hand-eye coordination, but months ahead of lips/teeth/tongue coordination. A 6-month old doesn't have the physical capacity to say the word "hungry" but they can be taught to sign it. And better communication = less crying.
Barb - Aug 23, 2009 5:28:07 am PDT #20480 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
Steph isn't the only person having issues at car dealerships.
P-C, sounds like you have even more reason to call now because I'll be damned if his attitude should have changed because you threatened to call. The whole point of what you should go in saying is that you shouldn't have had to resort to a threat in order for him to treat you in the manner in which you should expect as a paying customer. Plus, the job was not completed to your satisfaction, but because the salesperson wasted so much of your- the paying customer's time engaging you in such a belligerent manner you couldn't stay to resolve it, nor did you have any desire to do so, since clearly, the salesperson wasn't interested in treating you- the paying customer who provided this salesman with a commission in these trying economic times- with simple courtesy and a desire to fulfill his promise to you, the paying customer.
See where I'm going with this? You're in the right here and if you don't call, then you're giving tacit approval to their behavior and you know, that guy should know better-- he's one phone call away from losing his ass and he knows it.
What you need to do is check the paperwork and ascertain where it said you had to bring it in within 90 days and make sure you emphasize that at no time was this made clear to you even during repeated phone calls.
Not that I'm cranky about stuff like this or anything.
Calli - Aug 23, 2009 5:33:51 am PDT #20481 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Teaching them some signs lets them start communicating when they're hungry, hurt, bored, tired etc earlier.
A 6-month old doesn't have the physical capacity to say the word "hungry" but they can be taught to sign it. And better communication = less crying.
Oh, good. Thanks! That's something of a relief.
Vortex - Aug 23, 2009 6:09:49 am PDT #20482 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Stage 2 cable outage in my area. STOP No phone, internet or tv.STOP Posting from cell.STOP Send interwebs ASAP. End message
askye - Aug 23, 2009 6:16:44 am PDT #20483 of 30000
Thrive to spite them
Mom's actually teaching my nephew ASL because that's what she knows. She's started off her career as a speech therapist for hearing impaired kids, then taught Deaf and hearing impaired elementary, middle, and high school; then went into pre-k assessments for special ed; then did Adaptive/Assistive technology; then finally ended her career as the media specialist at the school for special needs kids.
She started teaching him "more" when we were keeping him in Jan. If you stopped doing something he wanted or if he wanted more food and it wasn't coming fast enough he'd scream and fling himself backwards which made it hard to hold him. So she worked on "more" food, "more" book, etc. He's just now able to make the proper m sounds so when I was up there if he was really emphatic about wanting More! He'd say MA!MA!MA! really loud as well as signing. And he's just now starting to say nana for banana.