A look behind my eyes

Dear Moron,
For future reference, when you are in a four wheel slide on an icy road, do NOT hit the gas and turn the wheel! You are an idiot and if you would have hit me, you would have gotten your ass kicked by a girl in the middle of the road.

~ K

This is all I have to say...

The Mayans made a calendar.  They made a substansially long calendar (note it was a long time ago!).  Then they got tired!!!!!!

They had other things to do than continue to write out a stupid calendar for a million years!

Dear FedEx,
I hate you even more than I did last week, if that's possible.  When something ships on a Thursday and on Monday afternoon there is still no information, not even a delivery date, there is a problem.  And when I call you and you tell me that my package has not even been picked up yet, I laugh just a little since it says on the tracking page that it WAS picked up!!!

I'm not going to scream just yet.  If there is still nothing tomorrow, I will simply call HP back and let them know they can keep the computer and refund all of my money and I will go back to Dell.

People Suck!

Dear Fed Ex,
My computer has been sitting in Shanghai for almost 24 hours with no updates.  I called to find out if the online update was incorrect or if it was just taking a little nap there in China.  It was lovely to ask my question and listen to your rude customer service rep speak to me like I was interrupting her busy day and simply repeat the same statement over and over no matter what question I asked.  I finally just gave up since it was obvious she wasn't going to anwer my question and didn't really care anyway.  Talking over the customer and getting louder each time so they just give up is not the way to conduct a successful business.  I'm sure she needed to get back to filing her nails or it was her turn in the online poker game she may have been playing; obviously that was more important than answering my simple little question.  I mean, after all you already have my money, why should you care.

Oh well, it's reasons like this I will always ship UPS whenever possible.  Thank you for reminding why I don't use your company.

Have a lovely day

Here is my answer to the Plinky.com Monday question ~ "What offends you?". Check out this site if you haven't already. It has some really interesting and fun questions and ideas for blog posting.

People who are closeminded
I am offended by people who cannot see past their own experiences or views; especially those who feel the need to push those view off on others.

We all have our own life experiences and we all see things in a different way. Valuable lessons can be learned from simply taking the time to listen to what other have to say and opening our eyes to seeing things from another's perspective.

That is one of the reasons the blogsphere is so great. There are millions of people with such diverse backgrounds from countries all over the world. Give yourself the opportunity to learn from others.

I am seriously disappointed today. I have been in desperate need to get out of town for a little while and get away from all the stress and everything that’s been bothering me lately. I came up with a plan a couple days ago to head to Kansas for the weekend with a friend of mine. A bunch of other people we know are going to be there and it would have been perfect to go and relax. I can’t begin to tell you how much I was looking forward to this little time away.

I don’t have time off so we were going to head out as soon as the clock struck 5 on Friday. I was so excited and let my wonderful best friend know when I picked him up at the airport Monday night. He was happy too, since he will already be there. He was supposed to leave today.

Well, all that said, I get a call yesterday because my wonderful best friend called my ride and changed the plans with him so he could wait and go Friday at noon with us. This works for him because he won’t have to pay for two nights extra hotel room when he doesn’t need to be there until Friday evening. Unfortunately for me, he didn’t bother to ask me if I could take a half day off work and he has to be there by mid evening and can’t wait until 5 to leave.

It would have been great, if it were not for the fact that I don’t have vacation time!!! So basically, I am not going. My wonderful best friend hi-jacked my ride and now I won’t be able to go. I’m not going to drive 8 hours by myself at night and my car is having problems (that I can’t afford to fix) and can’t take a 4 state trip.

I know he feels terrible about it and that he thought he was making it so we could go together, but it really doesn’t make the situation any better for me. I feel bad that he feels bad, but I feel worse that I’m stuck here now… again. He keeps apologizing and I tell him its ok, but he needs to stop it because it’s only making me feel worse. It’s not ok, it’s his fault and I’m getting tired of having to reassure him when he was the one who wrecked it. And then I feel guilty for thinking that and getting annoyed with him for apologizing because I do know how bad he feels. Basically I just can’t win on this one.

I’ve been trying really hard not to whine and cry about everything that’s been going on. I feel stupid for being upset about something like this, but it's kind of like the straw that broke the camels back I guess. I’m trying to be optimistic about the future, but sometimes it’s really difficult to keep a good perspective or positive attitude when even your best friend is ruining things for you.

I feel like I’ve been on some out of control carnival ride lately. Every time I start to think I’ve got my life together and I can start making a plan for my future, something blows up in my face. I’m starting to sink into that dark hole again and I promised myself I would never go back there.

I've had a BofA credit card for a long time now. I've never missed a payment, I always pay above the minimum and have used this card frequently. I had a really nice APR of 5.99% since I was such a good customer.

So today I get this letter in the mail telling me that they are changing my rate to a variable rate and that my new rate would be more than double starting next month.

Of course I have the right to reject it and then I basically close the account and just pay off whatever I owe in my usual monthly payments. I would understand if I was a crappy customer or didn't pay or something, but this is complete BS!
These banks wonder why they are failing... really... maybe it's because you screw over your good customers! The only people who are going to stay with the new rate are the ones that aren't going to pay anyway. I have no sympathy for companies like this.

So if you have a BofA account, watch for your letter and start looking for a better company!