You hate it when:

[Rick Hunter]

.... when I have to go to a car dealership for any reason whatsoever. Last year we had to replace my wife's car and we found a great deal on a '21 Forester with only 11K miles on it. She really likes Foresters and they're great cars, but that dealer actually wasn't human and they were provably reptilian. Now they're in a new location under new management and when I look at how futuristic and fancy it is I know who's paying for all that.

Yesterday was an annual tire rotation and oil change - because I actually read the maintenance information the manufacturer conveniently provides in the glove box - the one nobody ever bothers with. The thing only needs what it needs and the dealer - all of them - notoriously upsells all sorts of unnecessary expensive crapola. Why would a car with 15K miles on it need a new air filter and fuel system flush ? Has it been operating in a quarry or coal mine or something? But, it's under warranty until 2026 so I'll have to hold my nose and deal with them. Swine.

I don't miss that nonsense at all. Take away the routine maintenance services a vehicle can actually benefit from and replace them with high margin bullshit that the tech gets less flat rate labor for. I felt horrible trying to upsell that stuff. But, they've got it set to where you won't get a billed hour for every hour you spend working if you don't. To hell with that!

 

[pigfarmer]

I hate it when you put your garbage cans out and the company don't come like they're supposed to - apparently delayed one day due to the snow. Understandable.

But sitting out there and extra day means that the high winds last night knocked over the recycle bin and spewed its contents all over the front. So, I am sick today with a bad cold, my busted toe is clanging at level 10 and I just spent some time slipping and sliding in the ice and snow to clean that all up .......

..... to find they already went through and won't betaking it. It's full, so I guess my recyclables this coming week will all be bagged and toosed in the regular garbage. Been a customer with them since 1997 and they are a monopoly around here - will they come and get it if I ask? **** no.

I am one crabby bastard today.

 

[pigfarmer]

Since you were all on the edge of your seats holding your breath - we left the office a message and they sent the truck through the whole neighborhood again. I've been a customer since '97 and that's what I wanted. This morning however, Dr.Bruce Banner would've Hulked-out

 

[Standingstones]

I hate it when you put your garbage cans out and the company don't come like they're supposed to - apparently delayed one day due to the snow. Understandable.

But sitting out there and extra day means that the high winds last night knocked over the recycle bin and spewed its contents all over the front. So, I am sick today with a bad cold, my busted toe is clanging at level 10 and I just spent some time slipping and sliding in the ice and snow to clean that all up .......

..... to find they already went through and won't betaking it. It's full, so I guess my recyclables this coming week will all be bagged and toosed in the regular garbage. Been a customer with them since 1997 and they are a monopoly around here - will they come and get it if I ask? **** no.

I am one crabby bastard today.

Does the garbage company not post delays on their website?

 

[pigfarmer]

Does the garbage company not post delays on their website?

Generally yes but in this case, no. Highly unusual to miss pickup and obviously we weren't the only ones who called.

In the past the trucks had crews so if someone's cans spilled over they'd pick them up. Several years ago my regular garbage cans went away and they provided two enormous wheeled containers. Now its a fancy truck with one guy in it and a mechanical claw that picks the container up and dumps it in back. Pretty slick machine that eliminated quite a number of jobs. Perhaps those men became 'coders' like mine workers

When I wanted to get rid of something they shouldn't take I'd just wait for the truck to come up the road and leave a case of beer on whatever it was. I assume the claw has some sort of weight limit, a clutch of some kind, but I've never found it and have disposed of all sorts of things. No need to bribe the claw.

 

[J Randall Murphy]

I try really hard to avoid using that word. Instead I use the word "love" — sarcastically, e.g. "Don't you just love Trudeau's sanctimonious condescending attitude toward Canadians."

 

[Standingstones]

When we had snow last Tuesday that put the garbage pickup back a day. Our pickup up day is Friday. With Presidents’ Day is today(Monday). We hope that Tuesday is our day. We don’t like leaving our cans out for numerous days hoping the garbage people will arrive.

 

[pigfarmer]

When we had snow last Tuesday that put the garbage pickup back a day. Our pickup up day is Friday. With Presidents’ Day is today(Monday). We hope that Tuesday is our day. We don’t like leaving our cans out for numerous days hoping the garbage people will arrive.

garbage calculus .......

 

[CerealK]

I hate it when you put your garbage cans out and the company don't come like they're supposed to - apparently delayed one day due to the snow. Understandable.

But sitting out there and extra day means that the high winds last night knocked over the recycle bin and spewed its contents all over the front. So, I am sick today with a bad cold, my busted toe is clanging at level 10 and I just spent some time slipping and sliding in the ice and snow to clean that all up .......

..... to find they already went through and won't betaking it. It's full, so I guess my recyclables this coming week will all be bagged and toosed in the regular garbage. Been a customer with them since 1997 and they are a monopoly around here - will they come and get it if I ask? **** no.

I am one crabby bastard today.

I hate the snow!