Archives in Category: Annoyances

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Open House Angst

Posted on June 1, 2008

Part of having one’s home on the market is accepting that your Realtor® will hold open houses and that, at the first one or two, your neighbors — particularly those you don’t socialize with — will show up to see

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Update on www.gethuman.com

Posted on April 27, 2008

Last August I wrote a blog about a website that is filled with useful information for those situations where you need to contact a company by telephone and you wish to speak with a real, live customer service representative about

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Gremlins

Posted on January 30, 2008

This has been a challenging couple weeks in terms of my web site, our home’s security system, our sump pumps, and snow. The old adage about when it rains it pours can be more succinctly put as: “When one thing

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The Gawkers

Posted on January 11, 2008

Our road is still pretty much under water; in fact, the local authorities have put a sign up that the road is closed except for local traffic.

But that hasn’t stopped the gawkers from driving by. I know they’re gawkers

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Email Confirmation

Posted on December 3, 2007

I do most of my holiday shopping via catalog and the telephone; and it seems to work well. There’s just one thing I find annoying about the process, and that’s getting an email confirmation of my order.

Don’t get me

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Customer Service

Posted on November 25, 2007

It’s the last day of the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, and I’m somewhat surly. It’s not because I didn’t get my fill of turkey or because I didn’t have a wonderful time on my annual visit to see close relatives in

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Leaving Town

Posted on November 20, 2007

I consider myself a pretty good traveler. I bring only carry-on luggage regardless of the length of the trip. I can find my way around in strange cities. And I’m not deterred if I don’t speak the native language when

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Motel Police

Posted on October 16, 2007

Last weekend we spent some time in a Fairfield Inn, a motel chain which seems to be owned by Marriott Corporation. Now I’m not picking on Marriott; it’s just that our recent experience reminded me of my attitude toward hotel/motel

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The O’Reilly Factor

Posted on September 18, 2007

Every now and then I hear a snippet of Bill O’Reilly’s radio show, and today was one of those snippety times. I admit I am not an O’Reilly fan, and I try to take my bias into consideration when criticizing

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CURMUDGEON MONDAY – To Be Quiet

Posted on September 3, 2007

Earl and I visited a natural history museum on a recent vacation. We paid our admission and entered the first gallery, which contained a diorama of stampeding bison being chased by Indians to set the mood for what else we

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