My Personal blog on cycling & other favourite passions.
遙知馬力日久見人心 Over a long distance, you learn about the strength of your horse; over a long period of time, you get to know what’s in a person’s heart.
"You can't get what you want till you know what you want." Joe Jackson
2006 Cannondale Feminine/Ultegra/Jett
2012 Trek Speed Concept 9.5/Ultegra/saddle TBD
Pulled up to Dunkin' Donuts in the dark on my bike with 6 lights flashing. Server was outside on his cell phone and said to me as I grabbed the handle of the door, "You gonna buy something?"
....."I beg your pardon?"
"You gonna buy something?"
....."Yes," (through gritted teeth)
"Okay. I thought you just wanted to use the bathroom."
....."Is my senior diaper showing or what?"
"'scuse please?"
.....Pullling up to my full 5'0.5" height, "And I suppose you would refuse to let me use the bathroom?"
"'scuse please?"
"The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we might become." Charles Dubois
Burning cigarettes thrown out of the windows of moving cars. So, what's the deal? Those people don't want their cars to stink like cigarettes? Guess what - THEY ALREADY DO! AND, it's as if cigarette butts don't count as litter.
Okay, I hate all cigarette butts I see on the ground, but the ones that are still glowing are a fire hazard. We had at least one wheat-stubble field that burned when I was a kid - started by the road, 95 degree day, windy,.... It could have taken the house, the adjoining fields, and the family's only source of income for that year. The people who start fires that way just continue on their way, never knowing what they've done.
Grrrrr. I guess it's on my mind right now, because the snow melted a month early, and we are DRY. It will be a while before things green up, and we're surrounded by woods & dry, dead plant material.
Okay, don't judge me for this because I know there is a good reason these rules are in place. Having your identity stolen is no joke and I do take it seriously and I understand that it would be a terrible thing to happen to you.
HOWEVER.... I become completely irate when I can't speak to a business representative (customer call center) because only my husband's name is on the account. I'm the bookkeeper of the house, pay all the bills (on time) and deal with any billing discrepancies. When something has to be done, I do it, not my dear husband. I hate going through the whole phone process of listening to what number to press, entering the 16 digit account number, being on hold for 15 minutes, only to find out they won't answer my questions because I am not on the account. I have since had my name put on every account we have, but even when my name has been on an account they did not always fulfill my request. Even when my question has been so generic and had nothing to do with his account per se, but rather their policies they said they would not speak to me. Arrgg, I feel my rage boiling just as I type this.
I feel like since I have my husband's personal information they should be able to talk to me too. I know, I know, anyone can say they are the spouse and if they have stolen the information can act like they are me. But, if it is a male and he has stolen information, he too can act like my husband and they wouldn't know any better. Someone in a previous post said that people become irate for stupid things because they take things personally. I guess this is why I feel irate, because I do take it personally, when I should not. When this happens I feel like a second class citizen, a pee on, and an employee, when I should feel like a partner and owner. I am just trying to take care of business and they are wasting my time. I like to be independent and when I need to rely on him for something it makes me feel inferior. So I do take it personally.
Like I said, please don't judge me for this. I understand why these rules are in place and I do somewhat agree with them. It just pisses me off and that is what this thread is about.
I have other pet peeves, but none that make me as irate as the one above.![]()
Last edited by mhami; 04-15-2010 at 07:45 AM.
hi, Mhami!
I can really relate. A few months ago, my mother called me from the hospital where her husband was dying. She wanted me to find out something about their insurance coverage. He could barely talk, he was weak and since he had recently been intubated, he had almost no voice.
So i had to call her insurance, pretend I was her, then they needed HIS permission to give me(her) info about his account, so I then had a coworker pretend HE was my stepfather!!!!!!
My mother had given me all the pertinent info, birthdates, account numbers, but it just shows you how dumb the precautions are; until they can do voiceprints, ANY male voice can be used to pretend to be your husband...
I like Bikes - Mimi
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Davidson Custom Bike - Cavaletta
Dahon 2009 Sport - Luna
Old Raleigh Mixte - Mitzi
another reason to have your durable power of attorney for health care purposes in place, whatever your age....
People assume that since unmarried couples have to do so much paperwork to get basic aspects of their relationship recognized legally, married couples don't have to do any. There's a lot less, to be sure, but it's not "none."
Speed comes from what you put behind you. - Judi Ketteler
The siren noise that the deaf chick's phone makes every time she gets a text message. (It's her personal phone). She can't hear it, so why is there a sound???![]()
Beth
She probably has no idea that it is on.... (some kind of default or someone's stupid idea of a joke). I had a teacher in high school who had no high frequency hearing left. As well as causing lots of other misunderstandings "b" c? "b!", d? "B!!", e? NO "B!!!- AS IN BOY"...... his digital watch alarm would go off every day at about 10 min until the end of class. At just about the end of the year someone finally mentioned it. He had no clue that it was ever going off.... (and wanted to know why no one had told him sooner)
"Sharing the road means getting along, not getting ahead" - 1994 Washington State Driver's Guide
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