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Anxiety ,

My son worked at McDonald’s part time when he was in high school . He said all fast food places , the employees get told to prioritize the drive thru . Just do that .

He said he saw customers go thru the drive thru , get their order , then park and bring the food in and sit down to eat . It was faster .

The kiosk forces you to use a credit card . That stinks .
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I hate using the kiosk, or self checkouts, or any of those things that used to be handled by a real live person. Yes there are times when it's convenient, but there are plenty of times where it saves no time at all.
And I just don't think it's wise to have your whole life on your phone the way so many do today, I like to build redundancies into my life so if something happens to one thing I've got a backup somewhere else.
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Cwillie, No surprise there, of course they want you to spend more on a phone. it all stinks how much and how fast they are changing things.
I feel your pain.

I really do good, just trying to deal with the changes, and go with the flow. But....... It's all getting to much.

I couldnt get anyone to wait on me at Wendy's the other day because I didn't want to use the , thing-a-ma-gig. Kiosk? Maybe
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I just got a text that as of Dec 16 my prepaid phone provider is no longer providing this service, but I can switch over to their other brand (for more money).... I guess people have known about this for 7 months but it's the first I'm hearing of it.
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Peasuep, oh it's crazy how much we depend on things like Internet, you don't realize until you don't have it.

Last week I colored my hair, went to rinse it off, and because of the road work, we had no water pressure. So I'm trying to get it out with dribbling water. Prefect time🥴

Yes, we are just trying to travel, believe it or not, May was my first time ever on an airplane, we went to New Orleans, it was a bit stressful, a few glitches but traveling all new to both of us.

Then some friends we play boccie with , asked us to go on a cruise with them. Hubby said sure , I'm like , eeeekkkk , another adventure, when I didn't even come down from New Orleans adventure. Yes it's a southern cruise, first time ever
And are friends know how we are, we actually both might be dyslexic, because neither of us have any sence of direction. And are friends help us do all the booking stuff.

Then I have to go to Ireland in September 25. For my son's wedding, hubby said he isn't going, now he is changing his mind. 😂. 🤯🤯🤯 My minds blowing up.
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First, my whine: I am a little disgusted at how much I depend on the internet around here. We have to stream tv because we can’t get a clear satellite signal - too many tall trees - and although I don’t watch during the day it is helpful for occupying DH while I work. My weakness is my iPad (obviously). Not just for Christmas shopping, which I planned to have finished by Halloween, but won’t this year because of the outage, but because of all the day-to-day business I need to do. You never know what a hole it leaves until you don’t have internet for a week! How did we ever live without it?

Nacy, are you cruising on warm seas or cold seas in January? I’ve never been on a cruise. Not sure if I would enjoy it…maybe a US river cruise would be fun - I’d like to see the Mississippi……
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Peasuep, no I was naughty, I went to Kohl's, 🥴, and didn't want to spend more money. I did get an adorable outfit for are cruise in January. Hehe.

I bought those stick things, 😆, they look a tad unattractive, but the work, and now that the road work has filled the hole back up. What a summer, they started in May, I think I must live where all the water pipes met, they have been on my corner on and off all summer. It feels like years now. 😂. It was may we had a small earthquake and all of us neighbors thought it was the road work.

Now it's just a matter of waiting for the dust to settle and the cleaning to begin. 😐
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Nacy, did you get a zapper and did it work? I wonder if it would work for box elder beetles or if they are too tough.
Are your ears ringing now that all the road construction noise has stopped?

Golden, I was skimming posts to try to catch up and also thought for a minute you were talking about a real mouse!
I am mouse sensitive - since moving here mice have built a nest my behind my glove compartment, gnawed through my AC cable and chewed my windshield wiper hose in half so now it squirts wiper fluid onto my front tire. I honestly don’t know what I did to offend the fauna around here.

Way, those texts have got to break your heart. I’m sorry. Your nephew is lucky to have you.
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Golden, it is better today, 🤞 but actually even outside is better too. They finished a fire hydrant in front, repaved this morning, and took all the equipment away. Hopefully things look up now!

Golden, I actually got one of them the other day, that said, do not reply, then under a box that said reply. That's interesting anyways. 😂

Way, so sorry, that's got to be so hard!!
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nacy - how's the fly fight going?

way - that's heart breaking! It must be awful to be receiving those pleas from your sis, but you are 100% right. She needs placement. I am so sorry for both you and your nephew. There is no easy way through this illness. I'm glad nephew knows his limits and so do you. ((((hugs))))

re problems with grocery store -I got a "no reply" email that I have been assigned a new case number. The origin of the email is nothing like I have seen before. It says it is "no reply" but there is a reply link at the bottom of the email so I am gathering more info to sent to them just in case it does work and to give them a little more to go on. Wish I had am IRL calculator. I do better with those than the app on the computer. I probably should be house cleaning rather than totalling figures, but I need a little fun.
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Sister with dementia in rehab . Nephew can no longer care for her . He’s setting up placement .

Sister is texting , begging me to come get her . I feel bad but she can’t be home alone when nephew at work , plus her sundowning is bad . Nephew was losing sleep . I’m tired of telling family members they can’t go home .

And I feel bad for my nephew , I know what it’s like in his shoes .
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Oh!! Thanks , I just looked them up. I'm Def ordering on of those today!!!

There not all that expensive either 😃
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Or you could buy an indoor fly zapper light .
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I didn't want to go the fly strip way, but I'm going to have to. I've tried literally everything else.

Cups of vinegar, someone said beer, nothing is helping.

I will say my kitchen is sparkling, now.
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Try fly strips . I just looked , Amazon has them .
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I still have little flies in my house, I keep cleaning and they come back. 2 neighbors are having the same issue, so I'm back to thinking that it's probably the road work, messing up the eco system.

One neighbor said, give up the cleaning, it's not gonna help.
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cw - Yes it's funny. 😄 R restrained himself for the most part as he has had similar very frustrating issues following up his post accident care and insurance matters. I also dropped one of his socks into the waste basket in the laundry room when I was transfering wet clothes to the dryer. Thankfully he found it. He actually does most of his own laundry.

nacy - I had a giggle at bedtime, otherwise it was "Look at that. Oh, well" and get the paper towel for mop up. 🧻

Riverdale - computer mouse! I rather like field mice They are cuter than house mice. 🐭 but they better stay in the field!

nacy - my dd has to do similar. Good bras for her are very costly.

I got an email from Canada Post this morning and it looks like it's resolved. We'll see. My neighbour said she is still getting mail for the previous house owner after 20 years, which may say more about the previous owner than it does about Canada Post.

I still haven't heard back from Superstore about their online discrepancies with my order totals. I think I'll go back and add up some of my previous orders to see if this is a pattern and, if it is, be a nuisance to them. I can't say I expect any positive outcome.

But, before that, I'll pamper myself with a hot, rose-scented bubble bath and then make some pb cookies from the pb I'm allergic to so I am not tempted to eat them. Treat for R! He deserves it after basically making the Thanksgiving turkey dinner, cleaning up the kitchen afterwards (it never looked so good), mostly making the turkey soup, then getting himself his own supper yesterday. He has developed a lovely habit of once he is finished with a bowl or plate washing it, drying it, and putting it back in the cupboard. Not necessarily all the dishes but some! Not to say that I don't encourage this! 👏

Laugh at life, Before Life Laughs at you by Alina Rubi 

Have a good day, all, or at least a better one!
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Golden, when I read about a mouse in your tea I literally thought it was a real mouse which would send me through the roof. Glad at least that was not the case.

I'll take the largest bug possible and give it my best to take it out but anything with a hairless tail and I want to move but need to be guaranteed it is completely rodent free.
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My whine, I ordered 2 new orthopedic, posture correcting bras yesterday. Only 200$ 😑

Golden, that's a bad day! The second time the mouse went in your tea, I would of either broke out in laughter or tears.
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sorry Golden but that's too funny 🤣🤣
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Hope the cricket relocated.

My whine is with Canada Post. Apparently they have mixed up my request to extend my mail forwarding such that not only in mail not forwarded but the notice to tell me that I had extended my mail forwarding was redirected to my old address. My neighbour got the mail from the new owners and contacted me and sent me a photo. I called the number on the card from Canada post and was told it was the wrong number -please call xxx xxx xxxx. So I called that number only to be told it was the wrong number too please call - would you believe it -the same number I was calling.

So I got online and found a number that worked and after some time of telling my story and waiting for it to be written down by some one at the other end, I was told someone else would be in touch by email in a couple of days, I thought they could just correct the error but apparently not.

In the process of all this, I had a cup of tea sitting where it usually did and my mouse working where it usually does and it slide off the arm of the sofa right into my cup of tea. I fished it out, pouring tea from every orifice but the lights were still on and it still worked after a fashion. I dried it out and left it to dry further and got a fresh mouse.

About 20 minutes after that, that mouse slipped off into my fresh cup of tea. I've sat here on my computer using various mice for a year now and never once did one slip off into my cup of tea, nevermind two.

You can't make this up.

It has not been my best day.
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Oh peasuep, that is definitely a whine moment!
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It’s bedtime and there’s a cricket in my closet. 🤦🏼‍♀️
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Yes, indeed we do, Margaret. With the number of orders they do daily, $5.00 overcharge would add up to to a tidy bit more profit for them. I don't think I've ever checked a total before but I will be from now on.
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Golden, that’s interesting. I was told that the local supermarket often charged full price for things that were supposed to be on special, but I would not have guessed that another issue could be the actual totalling of things with the correct prices listed. We do tend to assume that things like that are correct, don’t we?
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Oh goodness, nacy. No water!!! Arrrrgh!!!!

I don't believe this. I just got another email asking me to send proof of the (now non existent) mischarge for the salmon. Again I answered them that it has been corrected.

They also asked for smaller files of my screen shots and when they receive them THEN they will look into the problems. Sure I can do that but I do think there is some manipulation going on.

Like insurance claims - they put the burden on you dance to their tunes.

ETA
Actually I just added up the image file sizes I sent them and they come to just over 1 MB while PC says they can only handle 10 MB. So I guess they can handle what I sent them but just don't want to.
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Golden, they are manipulating you so you will give up. Everything is so confusing now. It just gets harder and harder.

So this morning I decided a good day to color my hair. Got the stuff all in my hair, all ready to rinse, turned on the water, no water pressure. Hahaha. Water main broke. I just had to do the best I could with water just dribbling out of the faucet.
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This does deserve a whine.

I did an online grocery order and when it arrived I checked the online receipt and saw I had been overcharged by some $30 for the salmon. Mentioned that earlier. So I put in an online complaint and suddenly the price of salmon was corrected and reflected in the total for which I was charged. Good.

Then, just to be picky, I totalled the items on the receipt and came up with $5.07 less than they charged me (R came up with the same) and the order history page showed the total as even higher than that by over $3.00, which they didn't charge me for.

Three times I communicated with the customer care department and stressed that the salmon price was corrected but I would like an explanation for the other figures. Finally I sent them screen prints showing my cc charges, their online receipt etc. and asking for a $5.06 refund if they could not justify their total.

That brought a quick response.

Firstly they issued me a refund for the salmon of over $30. 🙄

Then they said they had sent the other discrepancies to the appropriate department and I would hear back in 1-2 days. OK

I answered back that I had written several times that they didn't owe me for the salmon and they could keep their refund.

That one got answered very quickly - they have rescinded the refund lol.

I am now waiting to see if they can explain the discrepancies.

Obviously it's not the $5.06 that matters but that either they have hidden charges or they can't add. I say 50/50 chance of either one.

As you can tell I do like math. I found it fun until I reached calculus. My brain didn't like that.

I will buy more salmon and watch the prices. What they charged me was the price per kilo.
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THANK YOU!
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Ventingback, best of luck, hope things work out for you!! 🙏 🤞
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