Hope you are finally feeling better, Gardenarian.
Hope you are finally feeling better, Gardenarian.
How come some businesses make it so dang hard to find their phone numbers!! I had an appt. this morning to donate platelets at the Red Cross. Got almost there and the road was blocked off. One of those barricades & orange cones things with the sign that said road closed local traffic only. But then there was no way for "local traffic only" to get through. Not enough space to get between the barricades & cones. I guess that makes this 2 rants for the price of 1 lol The Red Cross is between 2 one way only roads. I could not figure out how to get there.
So I called information. The first time they gave me 2 numbers. I tried to have them texted to my cell phone but it wouldn't go through. So I called back and the first thing they said was push 1 to have the previous call texted to your phone. Tried again. Nope. Called again. Got a different number. Got the "the red cross is closed today, if you want to donate, blah, blah" message. Called again. Got a different number. Same recording though. Tried again asked if there was a number for the apheresis center. Nope.
So I came home. If the person who called to make or confirm the appt. had mentioned this issue to me I would have been prepared. But nope she didn't. Waste of time & gas money. Lots of frustration.
The Gardening Diva who is organizing our community garden's fall harvest potluck keeps peppering us all with emails about "whatcha going to bring?"
Hey Diva, I don't know what I will bring. When I decide what to cook, I will cook it and bring it. Then you will find out what that is.
Why does it matter to her? What's she going to do, tell me not to bring something?
One of the complicating factors with the Red Cross is that blood appointments are made on the phone on a national office I think. We've gone back and forth trying to get a phone number for the local place where DH donates.Originally Posted by Azure
They've finally got so that that are able to call in the evening. They used to call during the day, he was never home, I would take a message, he wouldn't call them back, repeat cycle.
Now they call at night when he's home and he makes the appointment. It was very tiresome there for a while.
When you can, report your problem. They need to know this stuff.
That is aggravating Iris Lilies. The only thing I can say is that sometimes when you have potlucks you often end up lots of deserts and not enough main dishes. that kind of thing.
But I'm with you, I often don't know what I will be bringing until a day or 2 before an event.
Oh, I know, but it's one meal in our lives, if we don't eat well, so be it. The average American can afford to drop a meal.
I remember once aboaut 20 years ago I hosted a nieghborhood potluck and one of the neighbors asked me "aren't you going to coordinate food? What if everyone brings pasta salad?" Having the same philosophy then as now, I did not. Guess what, everyone brought pasta salad, haha. But that was fine, it was only one meal in a lifetime of meal (and potlucks.)
And they never troubled you again to "coordinate" another potluck!
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. - Booker T. Washington
LOL Steve
oh, you! I thought of it as "the pasta salad tasting" where one could identify the best pasta salad recipes out there.And they never troubled you again to "coordinate" another potluck!
Here I am with another peeve.
Went shopping for t-shirts for DH. Hate shopping.
3 employees standing around in JC Penney's quacking on, one saying in a whiney voice "I ask for more hours but..." and I interrupted her because I had to ask where the men's underwear section is. She walked me halfway there, no problem, I could see the display.
DH wears crew neck size Large. Do ya think they had any crew neck size large t-shirts? Do you know how many packages of t shirts there were? I would estimate nearly 100, but none Large, none crew neck. I can't see how this can be true in this day and age of computerized stock control. This is not a weird style or an odd size.
So back I go to find a sales associate. This time two of them are standing around jawing. I interrupt, not shy am I, and I am the customer. So one pleasant young man walked back with me to the t-shirt display to help me look. He pulls off a Large, crew neck package and he said "here, it's just in a different package than the others." I look closely at it and it says "slim fit." This is for hipsters, not for DH who will not like a different kind of fit. I point out the "slim fit" description, the guy shrugs. I say my spiel about being surprised they are out of a standard size and style, he shrugs.
Me--gone.
Hate shopping.
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