Walgreens: Pissing Off Customers One at a Time

Now that's service!

I was shopping at walgreens.com using their Friends & Family code to buy three items costing over $60. Subtrct the discount and it's over $50. Subtract the 40,000 Balance Rewards points worth $50 and it should be just over $1, right?

Wrong! They charge the over $50! Since I'm trying to use up a debit card with a limit of $50, the charge failed. So I contact customer service.

The CS said they have to put a temporary charge on your credit card for the full amount. It's to keep you from spending points you don't have because in the days it takes for your order to ship, you might "reuse" the points.

I said, "Um, duh, how about putting a temporary hold on the points instead? That way you don't have to do it with people's credit cards?"

They kept repeating, "Your card won't be charged the total amount." [in the end.]

I said, "Just tell someone higher up my suggestion."

If anyone else could suggest this too, maybe we could get them to possibly consider changing it?

Probably not though. If there's one company that treats it's Friends & Family as thieves just because they didn't think of easy preventative measures. it's Walgreens.

A Tip For Idiotic Bigots

I'm guessing you pretend to be an upstanding citizen and a productive helpful member of society. You wouldn't kill someone on the off chance you might get arrested, right? But you would want them out of your neighborhood since it should a nice pure place for you and your kind to live.

If so, the last thing you want is to destroy your target's property or physically hurt them or their family. See, it takes money to move away. It takes more money for them not to go broke and have to live with government support which would be paid for with YOUR hard-earned tax dollars, gasp! You don't want them to have to continually shell out for hospital bills and fixing and replacing things.

Try asking; it doesn't even have to be too nicely. Or telling. Or anything else that doesn't involve physical assault or property destruction which are both still crimes that can be pinned on you. Also, lay off with trying to get them fined for stupid things because again, you don't want to them to run out of the money they'd need to move out of your precious neighborhood. 'Cause then might have no choice but to stay right there NEXTTOYOU which is the last thing either of you want.

The point is, home should be a sanctuary. Yes, I suppose even you have a right to that. As for your target, no place with a-holes like you around is much of a sanctuary. Give them the best chance possible of moving away already so you both can be happier. Emphasis on the YOU because of course you deserve everything good in the universe and they don't. *roll eyes*

The New Adventures of Superman 1966 part 1

Superman takes people into space without helmets! Even as Superboy he had better sense than that. His invincibility does not extend that far past his skin-tight costume.

On a similar note, doesn't he ever care if creatures will even be able to survive on the alien planet where he drops them off? See The Prehistoric Pterodactyls and Superman Meets His Match.

Up up and away! Down! Away!  Up for up. Away for forward. Down for down. Some combo thereof for everything else. Why does he bother saying these things? As Superboy, this might have been to let Krypto where know they should go. As Superman, he's just talking to himself. Or teaching kids about directions a la Sesame Street. For about two episodes in Season 2 he actually drops this, but then it's back


The Mermen of Emor - Why is it fun to watch sharks punt a ball with a guy inside? It might as well be a beach ball. Why not give the guy a fighting chance with weapons and all?

Merlin's Magic Marbles - Since when does the genius Luthor need magic? What does Merlin get out of this deal? Since when does a guy trustingly accept magic balls from another guy?

The Threat of the Thrutans - Next time try asking nicely. Honey and vinegar and all that.

All those episodes with Warlock - How many times could Superman have just snatched the wand before Warlock knew what hit him? Warlock is lame and crabby and an utter a-hole, his sister should have left him in that prison so she'd still have her own ruby.

The Deadly Icebergs - Wouldn't it have been easier for Superman to destroy the icebergs first and eliminate the threat?

The Men from APE - APE (Allied Perpetrators of Evil). When I first heard this, it sounded like Alive Perpetrators of Evil. Actually it still does. Of course that would have been awfully stupid as in are there Dead Perpetrators of Evil?

Help, I've Been Graffitied, Please Fine Me?

Trying to find any information on the Philadelphia Community Life Improvement Program (CLIP), I visited their website. They say they do graffiti removal. Considering how they treat me all the time for "long" grass and litter, I'm guessing if my place were graffitied, the process would go like this:

1) Punks - probably put up to it by Nasty Neighbor - graffiti my place with discriminatory slurs while I'm out running errands.

2) Nasty Neighbor - who hates me for no reason and keeps messing with me even though I've done nothing to him, not even in payback - informs CLIP that there's graffiti on my house and it's an "eyesore" for him.

3) CLIP "officer" comes out, takes a picture, writes up a ticket with a large fine against me even though I'm the victim here. Most especially because there's no video cameras on my property to prove that punks did it instead of me. Since, of course, I'd graffiti my own property with slurs against myself.

4) I come home to find a double bonus of graffitied slurs and a large fine. The ticket informs me that if I don't clean up the graffiti in two days, they'll send a crew to do it and charge me an excessive amount for the privilege.

5) I spend time I don't have cleaning the graffiti and money I don't have paying the large fine.

6) Another time while I'm out running errands, crew arrives at my house to clean up now nonexistent graffiti.

7) I receive an exorbitant bill in the mail for graffiti cleanup "service".

What a load of bull Philadelphia CLIP is.

Fantastic Four: Mr. Not So Fantastic

Fantastic Four: The Complete 1994-95 Animated Television Series

How many wives would name their husbands Mr. Fantastic? Especially with men who completely ignore them?
Susam Storm (to test if he's listening): "I'm going to go drown myself."
Reed Richards (obviously not?): "That's nice, dear."

Dr. Doom looking happy and blushing? Oh, the horror! Then again Sue is a beautiful woman, not that her man Reed notices. Doom's slacking; those Doombots look like mini Sentinel knockoffs.

Prince Namor the Submariner also notices Sue's beauty and tries to lure he into becoming his queen. She halfway falls for it. Seriously? The guy has ridiculously un-aerodymnic ankle wings which couldn't possibly help him fly. Not to mention the Vulcan ears how he doesn't look - or have powers - remotely like any of his people, which is why some of them want to overthrow him. Oh, and he has the personality of an cranky ass.

That Human Torch - How did Johnny Storm's towel stay on as he did all that jumping and flipping around when controlled by the Mole Man? His serenade of the spoiled girl: *cringe.*

Mmm...tastes like chicken - Galactus looked like he was sucking chicken skin off the planets he consumed. Yummy?

Miscellaneous - If vibranium punches back when Thing punches it, how was hitting one specific spot supposed to help? Never realized the Watcher was quite such a large baby man. Pyschoman: bad Mongol look-alike?

Adventures in Windows 7 #Whatever: That Blasted Task Scheduler

After all this time, I still haven't managed to get my now-aging Windows 7 system the way I want it. I despise when a company tells me I have to do certain things at certain times every month, week, day, hour. I've never used Task Scheduler before and damned if they'll ever make me use it!

Of course, when I try to go through the hundred tasks Windows tries to run by default and remove ot turn them off, sonething gets screwed. Does anyone really need a dozen tasks running constantly, trying to report everything you do to Microsoft in the name of "helping them improve Windows?"

And I don't have my system on for more than a few carefully selected hours at a time, let alone at 2 AM in the morning so they can run a Disk Defrag. I'll run a Defrag when I want to, and not using your piss poor version. So I try to remove the defrag task from the Scheduler, but then get an error message from the Defrag program, and ever after get error messages all over the Scheduler. To be safe, I completely restore the system to try again, this time unsetting the scheduling from inside the Defrag program first. Which, of course, gives me error messages all over the Scheduler.

*Sigh*

The Incredible Hulk 1982 - Miraculous Clothes

Miracle clothes - They rip and tear when Bruce Banner changes into Hulk until he's wearing nothing but ragged purple pants. When he changes back to Dr. Banner, the clothes are whole again. Miraculous! Imagine never having to lose buttons, replace holey clothes or repair broken seams. Oh, except for the occassional lab coat that goes missing after he returns to weak Banner mode.

Idiot Talbot - Sure, he knows martial arts, NOT. Could he have called Betty any louder to alert the enemy to their presence? Watch he swiftly he flees. No wonder the men called him Noodlehead Ned. Why hasn't he gottem demoted yet?

That three star nightgown - Do those nightgowns come standard for army generals?