ARRGGHH!!!! I hate this time of year!

[Russ]

Sixty five minutes at the Post Office today because it's a double-wall line of dimwits who MUST be mailing a package for the first time in their lives. Asses to elbows of clueless newbies!

Here are some tips for the Postally-Challenged morons:

1. If you are mailing Christmas gifts, put them is a shipping box BEFORE you arrive at the postal center!

2. It doesn't matter what damned stamps you buy! They are all 33 cents and all will mail your letter! Don't hold up the line while you carefully weigh the momentous "Santa or Christmas Tree" picture decision. It is RUDE!

3. Have your damned paperwork filled out when you get up to the counter! That look on our faces while we stare at you fumbling for a pen is NOT JOY!

4. If Priority Mail is a nickel more than Parcel Post, use Priority Mail. Don't make us wait five minutes while you contemplate all the wondrous things you can buy with that extra nickel!

5. It is OKAY to pay cash for your stinking $3.30 worth of postage! It is NOT necessary to stand there balancing your frigging checkbook!

6. Finally, MAIL EARLY DAMNIT! The Post Office is there ALL year. They didn't suddenly open the week before Christmas!

Russ, NCNE

 

[toph99]

a little peeved are we, Russ?

 

[Killbat]

/me offers Russ a chill pill

 

[kduncan5]

I hear ya, Russ

Even a Credit Card is faster than a check. Almost as fast as cash these days. But keep that d*mned checkbook in your purse!:| -kd5-

 

[prodigy]

LOL, shall we keep this at the top?

 

[Ariel]

LOL!

It is so funny because it is so true! Especially the one about the stamps.

 

[Russ]

Actually, I feel much better now.

Russ, NCNE

 

[Zorba]

<< They are all 33 cents >>



This isn't correct. There are $0.22, $1, and I believe $5 also .

 

[hubbs]

Geez mellow out!

 

[snow patrol]

I'm getting quite majorly stressed out here. As per usual, I have left my Xmas shopping until the very last minute. However, there's just one little problem: I'm busy EVERY day this week except for Xmas eve (sunday). Fortunately, stores will be open here on Sunday, but I just know it's going to be a nightmare getting around. Not to mention the fact that I have pretty much no clue what I'm going to be getting for everyone..frown;

I want to cry!

 

[snow patrol]

Sorry, that should be 'I want to die! '

 

[vi edit]

I think Russ's coffee and cigarette rations ran dry

 

[Prodigy^]

i gotta agree.....I absolutely loathe standing in line in places like banks and stupid post offices. always tons of people who gotta do a trillion things, causing the employees to have to consult other employees, dragging it out, you start sweating, getting a headache and arrrrrg.....lol

 

[StageLeft]

What I can't stand is being behind an old person at the grocery store - ok not to harp on old people but I'm telling you i have an 80% chance of being right when I guess if somebody is going to pick through their goddamned change purse. Oh my god, is there anything so annoying as being behind a 70 year old using their wondrously un-nimble fingers to count out $.37

 

[fake]

Hope my package makes it here .. seems like postal chaos nationwide

 

[Russ]

snow patrol,

You are actually going to go shopping at a store? Man, I feel sorry for you.

I LOVE the web. My shopping was done a while ago, and it was all delivered right to my door. No pushing, shoving, trying to find parking, or dealing with screaming little snot-nosed brats while their Mommy elbows and jostles with the other Mommies trying to get the last hot toy.

Russ, NCNE

 

[IBhacknU]

At this point, I'd only consider FedEx or UPS anyway.

The post office is almost as bad as ToysRUs, this time of year.

 

[StageLeft]

Speaking of shopping malls I went to one on Saturday. I was almost pushed to the point of turning the car into a battering ram. Grr, talk about traffic. I had to park across the road, there was no parking at all.

 

[sweetrobin]

I love this time of the year

 

[loup garou]

OMG, I agree with Russ! <-never thought I'd say that!

When you're a PO &quot;regular&quot; like me (FS/T and Ebay, etc), the masses of people who aren't normally there really PO (haha...get it?) you.

 

[snow patrol]

<< snow patrol,

You are actually going to go shopping at a store? Man, I feel sorry for you. >>

Man, I feel more sorry for me

 

[perry]

Yes, I HATE the mall this time of year. I went to Lenox Square (closest mall to my apartment)here in Atlanta today with a friend to go shopping. Made the mistake of trying to park. Got to sit behing some prick in a 4Runner waiting for a Geo Metro to leave an illegal space (on the end of the row with white stripes across it) for 5 minutes. I honked four or five times at him, but he wouldn't budge. He just sat there with 10 cars behind him waiting, me first in line. Cars were parked on the curb, so he was blocking traffic on that aisle completely.

I was in the right mind to hop out of my car and tell him to move his car, in a not so polite manner. When I turned, I turned so that I went right by him and gave him a dirty look while yelling profanities at him. I'm sure he could read my lips. Good thing my friend was smart enough to roll the window up before I turned the corner or he woulda heard me. I felt like giving him a knuckle sandwich as a Christmas present.. Tis the season, don't ya know?

Finally did what I shoulda done in the first place. Drove to the top of the parking deck and got parked 10 spaces from the door of Macy's.

Not to mention the lines there.. Every yuppy soccer mom and her sister was waiting to buy Godiva chocolate it seemed. Buy a stinkin Hershey's bar a Eckerd and save $10! My friend likes J. Crew clothes for some odd reason.. that place was a mad house.. Ugh. I ended up not buying anything because I didn't feel like fighting the crowds.

I hate the mall.

 

[vi edit]

On Sunday at the mall some crotchety old bat backed out when I was getting in my truck and ripped her mirror off on my door. Old hag says that it's my fault....[dr. evil]riiiiiiiiiiight[/dr. evil]

 

[Dameon]

Eeeek. The holiday spirit invades

 

[SexEPid]

It ain't over yet, just wait till Boxing Day :Q

Pid