Random thing you loathe right now.

merphle wrote:
Tyrian wrote:

Next I figured I'd upgrade our Disney+ sub to the bundle. I'm always seeing ads for Hulu about live TV and sports being available, so surely I can add that onto my subscription.

Get the bundle setup, go in to modify the subscription and... nope. Disney+ bundles can't add LiveTV. ARGH.

Spend 5 min resetting all that back down to base Disney+

You can't upgrade the D+ sub to the Hulu/D+/ESPN bundle, but you can drop D+, create a Hulu account, and then sub to the bundle. I ran into the exact same problem 2 years ago, except I did it right after subbing for 12 months to D+ directly. Thankfully D+ customer support was kind enough to refund my 1-year sub so I could sub to the Hulu+Live/D+/ESPN bundle.

I wondered if this might be the case, but we're 4 months into a 12month D+ sub. :/ Frustrating that the house of cards builds differently depending on your starting point. Still, it's my own fault for not digging deeper into the twisted skein before committing!

When things come back around again, I might look at trying the other route. YT+ having individual unlimited DVR storage and whatnot is actually kind of interesting, but the promo price we're getting will be gone in a few months. I'm not sure I love it at ~65/month.

Not necessarily random but this one happened quick. Having to move during the school year and finding a place to live in the school district.

The house we rent had a leak in the oil tank nobody noticed until two weeks ago. Because it wasn't a big one and was on the bottom. My wife noticed an oil smell and a mark on the patio which I smelled and it definitely was oil.

The landlord came by and checked it out and there was a leak on the bottom. We found out the tank was over 20 years old and tank lives are 10 to 15 years. The tank guys came out and took soil samples and replaced the tank, and he says it looks like it has been leaking for almost a year.

The clean up is going to be fairly large, and the tank company works with the DEC and he thinks the well water and the creek in the back haven't been affected but will know for sure in early December. The clean up will be substantial, he said two dump trucks full of dirt and rock will have to be taken out, then replaced.

The cost is prohibitive for our landlord so he has to sell the house so he doesn't lose his shirt, which sucks because he's a really good guy. So we're looking at moving in an area that is full with no vacancies, and the only place we might be able to go is my Dad's, who lives in the school district and about 10 minutes down the road.

My Mom passed last year and he's been alone in the house. He's been asking what we'll be doing when he passes away and I never decided if we definitely will move into his house. But now we'd need some place to stay while he's still alive. Everybody worries about his well being, but he's got one of those personalities (like mine) that is kind of prickly sometimes.

Still sucks though.

Bureaucracy and terribly chosen go-live dates.

The US Healthcare system. I have great insurance, and it's still a f*cking sh*tstorm to deal with.

Fedex damnit!
Deliver my escooter already! You are killing me smalls.

Delivery was scheduled for end of day yesterday.
Shipment arrived at Fedex office 20 minutes away and was out for delivery yesterday at 5:30am.
End of day is 8pm. At 7:30 pm, Fedex ninja changed the delivery to today end of day.
I still have the cached page showing delivery end of day 11/3.
Status still out for delivery and its 5:30 pm. (2.5 more hours or I am going to be pissed)

Fedex does this a lot. In fact I have never had this done by UPS and Amazon has delivered ahead of schedule a half dozen times for me.

Of course I am home now. I was home yesterday. And I am leaving to see a movie with my wife at 6:30-7pm.
So if they wait for the last minute and pull that "attempted delivery" bullsh*t I am going to fume.

Also, if it is damaged or stolen, GRRRRRRRRR!

Yes FedEx is the worst. Every delivery is like that. UPS never.

It's insane that businesses still use them. I'd rather have stuff mailed to me by USPS

UPS is a union shop. FedEx is not.

So I was forceful but polite with Fedex. (though I did say I no longer wanted to be dicked around)
The office that it is stuck at is closed today so no Sat delivery and it will "probably" be delivered tomorrow.
I told them that wasn't good enough. By their own terms it should have been delivered on the 3rd. The agent I talked to earlier in the morning said that the shipment was accidentally left off the delivery van. Like that is acceptable, and the package is 63lbs so yeah, I really buy that.

After I told them that isn't good enough, I said specifically I get the lack of desire to tote around a 63lbs package. If it is going to keep "missing" getting on the delivery van then tell me where it is and I will come and get it. It if isn't going to be delivered on Monday, that again, tell me where it is and I will get it.

Odd to that they keep asking me what the package contents are. It is an electric scooter which seems like it will be a prime item for theft. But again, the package weighs 63lbs. I am sure laptops and iphones are much more attractive targets.

In my experience with FedEx it's almost always better to just have it routed to a local office. And then just run over and grab it from them. It avoids all this back and forth, and reduces the risk of theft considerably.

I should have done that. I did that when I bought my Oculus Rift and RX 580 back in 2017 and it worked beautifully.

And this package weighs 60 lbs so I should have known shenanigans were imminent.

deftly wrote:

The US Healthcare system. I have great insurance, and it's still a f*cking sh*tstorm to deal with.

That's what I came here to say. I broke two fingers in June, and the last bills are coming in. The piecemeal aspect of it is driving me nuts. Bill for urgent care*. Bill for radiology taking the x-rays. Bill for the radiologist to look at the x-rays. Bill for the hospital ortho clinic. Bill for the occupational therapy. Bill for the orthopedist at the clinic.

The last one is the one that broke me, because I thought I was done but no, pay another $600. What I'm paying the clinic for I don't know given that I'm paying the ortho separately, but that's what they demand.

* that was worse than useless, because their x-ray was down that day and the doctor had me take off the splint and try to bend the finger, which reset the clock on how long it needed to spend in the splint.

Amazon music.

We mostly subscribe to Prime for free shipping, shopping deals, and Video. But since we have an Alexa we got for free we use it sometimes for music. The kids love that we can play "Happy and you know it" or "wheels on the bus" on demand.

Well... Until this week. Amazon has added millions of songs to the prime included version of music. But they also changed it so you can't play a specific song anymore. You can only shuffle play playlists and play "songs like x song". Well sh*t I've had Pandora able to do that for 15 years if that's what I wanted.

Annoying. And now mostly useless for my use cases.

But hey you can pay $10 a month for the music unlimited to get the ability to play exactly the song you want back.

Ugh

I just got a Kit Kat that was entirely chocolate with no wafer. This is the worst thing to happen in human history.

iaintgotnopants wrote:

I just got a Kit Kat that was entirely chocolate with no wafer. This is the worst thing to happen in human history.

I call BS.

Because once i went into a KFC and they said "we've run out of chicken".

Clearly orders of magnitude worse.

Jonman wrote:
iaintgotnopants wrote:

I just got a Kit Kat that was entirely chocolate with no wafer. This is the worst thing to happen in human history.

I call BS.

Because once i went into a KFC and they said "we've run out of chicken".

Clearly orders of magnitude worse.

Plot twist: there was never any chicken.

iaintgotnopants wrote:

I just got a Kit Kat that was entirely chocolate with no wafer. This is the worst thing to happen in human history.

This happened to me on August 24th of 2019. A mercilessly hot day, only made worse by my KitKat. #neverforget

Jonman wrote:
iaintgotnopants wrote:

I just got a Kit Kat that was entirely chocolate with no wafer. This is the worst thing to happen in human history.

I call BS.

Because once i went into a KFC and they said "we've run out of chicken".

Clearly orders of magnitude worse.

Reminds me of the time I went to Aunt Sarah's Pancake House and they were out of pancakes. Or the time I couldn't get a waffle at the Waffle House. I don't trust restaurants named after a food item at this point.

Stele wrote:

Amazon music.

We mostly subscribe to Prime for free shipping, shopping deals, and Video. But since we have an Alexa we got for free we use it sometimes for music. The kids love that we can play "Happy and you know it" or "wheels on the bus" on demand.

Well... Until this week. Amazon has added millions of songs to the prime included version of music. But they also changed it so you can't play a specific song anymore. You can only shuffle play playlists and play "songs like x song". Well sh*t I've had Pandora able to do that for 15 years if that's what I wanted.

Annoying. And now mostly useless for my use cases.

But hey you can pay $10 a month for the music unlimited to get the ability to play exactly the song you want back.

Ugh

That's disappointing. We usually do playlists but once in a while we like to do specific songs.

Chairman_Mao wrote:
Jonman wrote:
iaintgotnopants wrote:

I just got a Kit Kat that was entirely chocolate with no wafer. This is the worst thing to happen in human history.

I call BS.

Because once i went into a KFC and they said "we've run out of chicken".

Clearly orders of magnitude worse.

Plot twist: there was never any chicken.

Double plot twist: the chicken are actually people! PEOPLE!

PurEvil wrote:
Jonman wrote:
iaintgotnopants wrote:

I just got a Kit Kat that was entirely chocolate with no wafer. This is the worst thing to happen in human history.

I call BS.

Because once i went into a KFC and they said "we've run out of chicken".

Clearly orders of magnitude worse.

Reminds me of the time I went to Aunt Sarah's Pancake House and they were out of pancakes. Or the time I couldn't get a waffle at the Waffle House. I don't trust restaurants named after a food item at this point.

Probably 18-9 years ago I called Pizza Hut and they were "out of crust". I asked why they were still open and something about breadsticks and wings. WTF

iaintgotnopants wrote:

I just got a Kit Kat that was entirely chocolate with no wafer. This is the worst thing to happen in human history.

A while ago I bought a bag of mini Kit-Kats and of the bag 2 of them were entirely chocolate. So it's rare but not unheard of.

CptDomano wrote:
Chairman_Mao wrote:
Jonman wrote:
iaintgotnopants wrote:

I just got a Kit Kat that was entirely chocolate with no wafer. This is the worst thing to happen in human history.

I call BS.

Because once i went into a KFC and they said "we've run out of chicken".

Clearly orders of magnitude worse.

Plot twist: there was never any chicken.

Double plot twist: the chicken are actually people! PEOPLE!

No that’s Burger King.

PayPal.

I have two different bank accounts and a credit card connected to my PayPal account, and when I ordered a shiny new gaming PC last week, PayPal decided to charge the wrong one. Specifically, they picked the one that didn't have enough available funds.

So I got hit with an overdraft fee, had to move some money around, and am now wondering how much this is all delaying my getting my new toy.

(As I type this, part of me remembers when a $30 overdraft fee would have been a catastrophe. I guess I'm a real grown-up now?)

misplacedbravado wrote:

PayPal.

Seven years ago I moved states and changed banks. Multiple times I updated my address and new credit card and doubled and triple checked that they were set as the primary info (I had tried to remove my old card, but it kept saying it couldn't be removed due to a recurring charge- that didn't exist).

Even after double and triple checking orders I placed through paypal to make sure all the info displayed was correct, it still would try to send things to my old adress and charge my old card. I contacted their customer support several times and nothing ever changed. It was rediculous.

Now I just resign myself to the fact that I can't use ebay or any other site that requires paypal to use.

Tscott wrote:
misplacedbravado wrote:

PayPal.

Seven years ago I moved states and changed banks. Multiple times I updated my address and new credit card and doubled and triple checked that they were set as the primary info (I had tried to remove my old card, but it kept saying it couldn't be removed due to a recurring charge- that didn't exist).

Even after double and triple checking orders I placed through paypal to make sure all the info displayed was correct, it still would try to send things to my old adress and charge my old card. I contacted their customer support several times and nothing ever changed. It was rediculous.

Now I just resign myself to the fact that I can't use ebay or any other site that requires paypal to use.

eBay now has an integrated payment system that doesn't use PayPal, I believe.

PayPal is trash.

bobbywatson wrote:

eBay now has an integrated payment system that doesn't use PayPal, I believe.

Maybe I'll check it out again. Last time I looked, it seemed there were a majority of sellers who were saying paypal was the only payment they'd accept, even though there were other options ebay offered for payments.

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misplacedbravado wrote:

(As I type this, part of me remembers when a $30 overdraft fee would have been a catastrophe. I guess I'm a real grown-up now?)

I feel you. I am having trouble with Uhaul billing me for a 350 mile overage on an 1140 mileage contract that I actually used 700 miles of(Its a long story on how we got here).

Bottom line is it is a 400 dollar charge that once upon a time would have been devastating but now is more of an annoyance. Not a minor amount of money but no overdrafts, no meals skipped etc...

Yeah U-Haul charged me an extra $50 in the spring. We were using it for one day to clean out some junk so we only drove 7 miles and I even put a half gallon back in. They tried to say the tank was at 1/4 instead of 3/4.

Hopefully just someone typing wrong, not trying to steal my money. After I called the store, it was fixed within a few hours.

Though some combination of the pandemic destroying my social life, aging, and brain problems, my sense of humor has gone to sh*t and I’m not as “sharp” as I used to be.

A couple of months ago, I went out for drinks with a friend I hadn’t seen in three or so years and we swapped stories. He reminded me of a really funny/smart thing I did when we last met, and all I could think was “goddamn I used to be a clever motherf*cker.”