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By then she was able to get a taxi, but it was so infuriating. She could have gotten a taxi @4 but figured her coworker would be better. So she ended up working at her expense; as she works two part time jobs. Her other job, which she had more hours at, is great! This one, however, really don't have the same cooperation. She was supposed to work Christmas eve, but couldn't. We had no car. They wanted her to take a taxi both way, which definitely would have COST her to go. It was ridiculous. I get that they wanted someone to be there...but they had two people are stand by. Soooooo....I'm not really sure why they took five hours before they accepted "I can't come in". Anyway, just pissed me off. My friend is really agitated too. She was supposed to be home for lunch, and is just now eating dinner. :/ | |||
First experience, with the grocery store? No problem. Everything was there (or suitably replaced), and it was a pretty decent experience, albeit a costly one - but hey, under the circumstances beggars can't be choosers. Overall, positive. ...until today, when my infant woke up sick, and we were short on Infants' Tylenol. No problem! We have 2 more free deliveries and Instacart will do drugstore deliveries, too! So I place an order for 10 - only 10! - items, tip $20 to the person that's really doing me a favor right now, and sit back to wait. Newsflash, Instacart shoppers: Infants' Tylenol is *NOT* the same thing as Childrens' Tylenol. Bringing me two bottles of Childrens' instead of the one bottle of each that I ordered is not a proper replacement (nor was it indicated as such on the order form). So, now my spouse (closest to having their quarantine over) has to break quarantine to go get the baby his medicine, because someone decided to be stupid. I do not appreciate having to do something reckless, because someone else didn't pay attention. /Grr Also, siderant, FFS why do literally zero delivery people put packages on the table that sits next to my front door, raised off the ground and under the porch overhang? Every, last, single, one of them puts the packages on the ground (sometimes with the added bonus of being directly in front of the door so that I can't open it), where they're splattered by rain instead of being dry on the table. Is this really such a difficult concept that I need to put up a sign that says 'Please put packages on the table?' Like - it's right there. Literally, right there, not 8 inches from the door. RIGHT. THERE. This message was last edited by the user at 22:28, Thu 20 Jan 2022. | |||
Easy answer on why they put things directly in front of the door. Habit Muscle memory basically. No thought engaged. | |||
Yes you have to put up such a sign. I got one next to both a bench and table in such a place. Prior to that I was lucky if they put it behind the wall and the space the bench is in. Cause delivery people tend toward lazy. A very few will knock or let you know they are there. Now I use Instacart myself and have had the Stupid happen a few times. But for me its people who can't tell the difference between a Large frozen food item and the Family size (or worse LARGE FAMILY size). So far have not had much trouble getting the meds I ask for but other things, oh yes. Example this morning I ordered breakfast via doordash, the lids on the coffee were not sealed, scalded my hands trying to get them out of the bag. THis mistake came from the people in the restraunt not double checking themselves (also left out my ordered cream and sugar). Yesterday, same restraunt, sent me a slice of cheese instead of the chicken bisquet I ordered, no idea what was going through their minds there. (if anything really). | |||
Unless it's pouring rain (or melting snow), of course, in which case they wind up in the puddle that forms in front of my door. This message was last edited by the user at 16:28, Fri 21 Jan 2022. | |||
Then I get a call from my mother last night, and she says she and my step-father both have it (they're in their 80s). Given her rabid addiction to conspiracy theories, they're not vaccinated and have elected to use... less conventional treatments. So last night my not-uncommon insomnia had a whole new thing to put on spin-cycle in my brain, and it was just a bit more agitating than the usual things. I got 2 hours of sleep. I'm awake now, but I really hate days when I spend the afternoon dozing off at the keyboard. And there's still that niggling little bit of anxiety rattling around in my head, that is proving very difficult to ignore. :P | |||
While it might not help, they are adults and are allowed to make their own, maybe misguided, decisions. Don't add personal guilt to everything else. I have a close neighbor personally finding out that Covid is not "Fake News". Not easy to watch but you can't save the world. You can only help the world by not requiring it to save you. | |||
Doesn't mean I won't miss them if the worst happens. They're important people in my life. Just found out this afternoon the friend who's had shots was also given the Pfizer anti-viral (her doctor had to hunt around to find a pharmacy with it), and said she started feeling better immediately after it started kicking in. She's out of quarantine on Wednesday. The unvaccinated friend isn't doing as well; she went to the ER and was sent home to take asprin and rest. Evidently, the anti-viral pills aren't widely available in our state. And today the exposed friend started having symptoms. She's been vaccinated, but her booster was scheduled for today... not happening now. So, I've got another week or two on the emotional roller coaster, until this all shakes out. This message was last edited by the user at 14:40, Tue 25 Jan 2022. | |||
There's a very great deal of mistrust as a result of the last election; and it's contributing in an unprecedented way to exacerbate the whole situation. And it's not just the "conspiracy nuts" that share that mistrust; I know of at least one medical professional who feels the same way. So, it's not quite the open and shut case it could be. I also have the issue with packages being left; as a result of living in a questionable neighborhood and my door opening right to the sidewalk. If I'm not here to get it, I usually don't; though the Amazon drivers at least know to knock when they make a delivery. This message was last edited by the user at 01:48, Tue 25 Jan 2022. | |||
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Bit of context, I've been playing NWOD on RPOL for about eleven years now and I've maybe got about 7-8% of my rolls as 10s on their online roller, so a few fewer re-rolled successes than I'd perhaps average. Ho-hum, such is life. Ironsworn has a system where you roll a D6, add your modifiers, and your success depends on whether you exceed either of the D10s that the game rolls against you. Exceed one, you get a partial success, exceed both, you get a full success. Given we've just started out, my modifiers are all between 1-4, so the maximum I can hit at this point is 10, and if it's a draw, then I lose out. So I really want the dice roller to give me 9s, maximum. I have five rolls to make to achieve my aim - Climb a ledge, circle round, jump out, stab a bloke, resolve the combat. Each has me rolling a D6 and the game rolling their 2 D10s. Bearing in mind this is the same roller, and bearing in mind my 7-8% of historic 10s, my challenge rolls were as follows: 1, 10 10, 6 9, 10 7, 10 10, 3 I am currently unsure whether to laugh or weep. But I also know that I'm not flipping a coin to decide, because my luck at the moment is something else. | |||
I don't like having to practically give out so much personal information for what is otherwise an anonymous service...it's an enormous security risk, and the trend is only getting worse. I don't want to trade my security just because it makes things easier for others, especially others who'd rather exploit it. | |||
Or my personal favorite. "Use our app to organize and keep track of all your passwords with ease." | |||
Why does history always seem to repeat? Why do we believe "it will be different this time"? | |||
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Well, basically, pretty much everywhere in the world at one time or another. History repeats because it works out so well for the winners, usually. Fully 3 continents of the 6 with habitations (ie: half the world) are fully developed tody because of Humanity's need to take someone else's land. Why is anyone surprised it's still going on? Especially those folks benefiting from it today? | |||
Not surprised. Humans are involved. We do have a history of being aggressive. Just disappointed that we spend so much time and energy pushing each other out of spinning the same old wheel when there is an entire universe to expand into. | |||
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Because each generation thinks that they're smarter/better/wiser than those who came before; and tend to ignore lessons learned (usually learned the hard way). | |||
It's bad enough when it's a past (pastlife) event or a probable future one....but the character based ones are the most stressful. It takes "can't get her out of my head" to a whole new level. And...I've gotten Tinnitus recently. The cause? The fire alarm that goes off at least once a week, and it's loud enough that I can hear it turn on in the next apartment over. | |||
Fun dreams when the characters from stories your working on show up and start giving you grief on Their drama, which has nothing to do with your life, but still leaves you all the extra stress. Boy do I know how That goes. Not going to get any sympathy on the Tinnitus from me, been suffering from it most of my life. No idea what set it off, only that it never really goes away. | |||
Have never had tinnitus, but you have my complete sympathy. I can only imagine. And I hope it gets better. | |||
My husband was switching phone carriers, so was getting a new SIM card. But it didn't come, so after a period of time they sent another. This house has three entrances, two of them obviously in use, one for up here, and one at the side for the downstairs apartment. Hubby had checked that the family downstairs didn't get the first delivery, and he'd looked all around our front door. There is a garage on the south side, obviously a garage with a garage door on the front. There is a door at the back, equally obviously not in common use because the little deck between it and the downstairs entrance is where the other family has their garbage can, recycling bins, and a storage chest. There is nothing to suggest there is access to the living quarters from there, and indeed there isn't any such. Inside the garage at that point was a bit crowded since hubby's boy-toy fair-weather car was still stored in there, so when he went to get something out of the back of the garage he went to the garage back door. Low and behold, when he moved what he needed to to open the door, there was the package with the first SIM card?!? What kind of brain spasm sent the person to deliver, not to any of the entrances to the living quarters, not even to the front door of the garage, but sent him looking for a door that didn't have access to the house part, obviously wasn't being used, and wasn't even easy to get to past the bins?? I know some delivery people make a point of making it difficult to get your parcel, but wasn't that a lot of trouble to go to for that?? Especially since the clearly marked correct door was so easily accessed, and as a second choice he could have left it at the also clearly marked incorrect door that he walked right past when he climbed onto the little deck and over the bins to hide the package behind what was blocking that back door?? | |||
If the delivery person has never been to your place, they'll be following a phone app. Seeing it as a garage, they'll still shrug and leave it there, because the app told them to. And that will be their defense if they're asked about it. This message had punctuation tweaked by the user at 10:47, Fri 06 May 2022. |
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