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Imp said:
Had trouble peeling an effing sticker off a new wooden spoon. I would have gladly paid an extra $1 if they just tied a tag to the hook hole on the handle. Why the eff do retailers/manufacturers still use these mother effing stickers that rarely ever come cleanly off.
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Simple: So you can't easily stick it back on and return it as new after you use it. They aren't your utensil rental service.
 
CZroe said:
Found a flat and sticky Taco Bell bag that used to contain a food item stuffed in the far reaches of the couch. It was probably a bean burrito with added sour cream. It's hard to say because it was almost entirely consumed by the flies we have been battling for years and was covered in empty (hatched) fly eggs. Clearly, they weren't interested in it anymore because it was just a thin layer of sticky moldy black stuff that now weighed barely any more than the bag it was in. It had to have been there at least since last Fall. No clue why we never smelled it. We sniffed everywhere looking for the source of the fly population explosion last year.
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Lol at this. Just lol.
 
Recently had our companies Verizon wireless rep inform me of a promotion. For every smart phone line we re-upped for a 2 year contract and new device, we could get a $100 credit per line. Fine, I'll take our 15 smart phone lines, upgrade their iPhone 4's to the 99 cent iPhone 5c, and our company can enjoy the $1500 credit on our bill. Easy, right? Nope. At Verizon wireless they want to make you work for it. After providing a list of the 15 lines to upgrade and instructions to the our rep, they upgraded 1 line that they weren't supposed to, and they upgraded 5 of the other lines twice. I ended up getting 6 phones that I wasn't supposed to get. Verizon rep apologizes, personally picks up the extra phones.

Today, I have a moment to do the first of the upgrades. Of course, the phone fails to activate, 30 minutes on the phone with customer service... Power it off, on, wifi, cellular, stand by the window, pull the sim card, clean the sim card, read the number off the sim card, read the device id, repeat repeat, never works. I ran out of time because the guy needed his phone back. I'm looking forward to going through this with 14 other devices...

Verizon wireless is fricking horrible
 
CraKaJaX said:
wow.... that's not a first world problem. that's third world torture!
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I'm trying to figure out the physical mechanics in my head and I'm like, even if I hop down the front stairway (ignoring the fact that I hate using that stairway on my crutches, since the railing is low and wobbly compared to the back stairs), I'd have to then somehow lift the box while balancing my weight on my crutches and then throw it back up to my apartment on the second floor a couple stairs at a time.

may as well just wait in torture for my BF to get home :\ gotta setup a pulley system or something to get stuff delivered upstairs.
 
loki8481 said:
I'm trying to figure out the physical mechanics in my head and I'm like, even if I hop down the front stairway (ignoring the fact that I hate using that stairway on my crutches, since the railing is low and wobbly compared to the back stairs), I'd have to then somehow lift the box while balancing my weight on my crutches and then throw it back up to my apartment on the second floor a couple stairs at a time.

may as well just wait in torture for my BF to get home :\ gotta setup a pulley system or something to get stuff delivered upstairs.
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Tie it up with a rope, tie the rope around your waist, drag the box up the steps.
 
I have a cold. Medical science, still in its early infancy, has yet to figure out how to eradicate such an infestation in less than a day.
 
I bought a tripod. Got it in the mail, opened it up, and the screw where you attach your camera had no threads on it. Just a round hunk of metal.

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