Gatorade: BLECH! It's something to drink if I was desperate. Mountain Dew: Ditto. Missing my restaurant YTD Sales Goal by 1.5%. Seriously? NC State Troopers. Whiners, Complainers, and all around negative attitudes. People who drive slow in front of me. Certain DMV rules. Movie Theatre Ushers. Poor service. Bad food. Idiots. Incompetents. My shower curtain that keeps falling down just to irritate me. Apt Maintanence Men. Bills.
I've given this five minutes thought and have a short list. I'll add more later when I'm in more of a foul mood.
1. Teaching my son to drive. After one week behind the wheel, I told him to slow down, he was out of control, and he told me "No, I drive better than you." He's in driver's ed now.
2. My sister JoAnn and all her "truths" about me. She tells me something bad about myself and if I disagree she says I just don't like to hear the "truth" about myself. No JoAnn, you just have a weird, stupid, perspective about me, that has nothing at all to do with me.
3. Calling up a business, any business, and slowly and methodically being given a fifteen-minute explanation of their hours of business, where they're located, travel directions if you're travelling west, east, south, or north and then given about 15 different numbers you might want to press to supposedly talk to someone and a lot of the times you just end up with the request from them to please leave your number, or they disconnect you.
4. Calling up 411 for a phone number for a business you know exists - you were just there, know the street it is on, and they tell you they can't find the business or phone number.
5. People who can't debate an issue and stay focused on the topic because they get so angry. I don't mind a little pushing and shoving, but stay focused people!
One more quick one, calling up for service for something that has fallen apart in my home or some banking call and ending up talking with someone with a thick accent in India. And if you ask them, am I talking to someone in India, they say, we're not allowed to tell you that.
Oh, I meant to say this one too. My cable company is the worst offender. You call them because their system has broken down, and if they can get out the next day, sometimes it's a three-day wait, their "window" when they expect you to be home for their service call is 7 a.m. until about 8 p.m. What's more they tell you, they will call you when they are about to go to your house, and they expect you to pick up the call and let them know that, yes indeedy, you have been patiently waiting for them for the last twelve hours.
You made me giggle with that last one, jeez. I always wonder what they would do if I subtracted the days without service from their bill or paid it on my time schedule.
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When I call any company that uses an internation call center, if I can't understand the person, I tell them that I am horrible with accents and is there anyone else that may be able to help me. Worst case, I hang up and try to get a different operator or ask for the Manager. It's not a lie. I really am bad with accents. The last time I talked to Gable's hubby on the phone I think he told me that he likes pink socks on fried snails.....or something like that...
Alright, my next rant is partly (or if you wish to insist) mostly my fault, but I still think it's very unfair/unreasonable on the part of banks. First, I hate paying bills. They always scare me a little, and I do all the bill paying in the house. On days that I pay the bills, I know my blood pressure has risen, I'm grouchy, I'm insecure, and I want to go out and buy myself something nice to feel better :) (Just kidding about that part.) (Really.)
But say I decide to pay off a credit card, the whole thing, in one month, because I can't stand seeing their bills in the mail anymore. Well, I'll pay off everything on the card. Zero balance, (except) it's a piddling two or three days late. So, the next month I receive a bill with a late payment fee on my zero balance of $25.00 plus whatever finance charge they think is reasonable (22% sounds reasonable to most banks these days.) Now is I'm late with that, the same thing can go on again for many months. I'm paying finance charges and $25.00 late charges for something I COMPLETELY paid off MANY months ago, until I decide to send them a check for way over the amount they think I should pay plus late fees and finance charges that I think might accrue in the next few months. Then they get pissed and have to send a refund check.
Now, I know it's my fault for paying late, but when I have obviously paid off everything on my credit card months before, and they just keep tacking on finance charges and over-the-top late fees on what is essentially a zero balance, I think they are robbers.
lol. I had that happen to me once when I thought I had paid off a card. What I found out is that if you call the credit company that day and ask them how much will it be if I pay it off today, that number will be higher than what's on your statement, because they accrue interest daily, even though you only see it as a one time monthly interest amount. Then you can pay it correctly. I didnt find this out till I got a late fee and finance charge on an account with like a .11 cent balance. BAH HUMBUG!
Actually, this has happened to me a couple of times now in the recent past. I do actually try to pay them off over the phone so I can get the exact amount that I would have to pay on that day to pay off everything, every piddling finance charge, everything, and the newest game they have played with me is that the person I'm talking to can't figure out what the exact amount is because of the finance charges. A Visa card did this to me recently and regularly. I called them each month, trying to pay off the bill, and I couldn't get a straight answer as to how much I owed on that day (after I had paid off the entire balance months before).
Oh, here's another banking irritant. Your credit score goes down if you get a new credit card. Your credit score also goes down if you try to close a credit card. You can't win.
