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Gear Grinding Part 5: The Story of the Broken Tooth

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jen said:
10 years ago, I would've said the exact opposite. Bill pay has come a long way. I use auto withdrawal with each entity (because I've had it set up forever anyway) and have never had a problem.
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We've used automatic monthly withdrawals for insurance premiums for a really long time and have never had a problem, either.

The one entity with which I will never ever again allow automatic withdrawals from a bank account will be health clubs. My son had signed up for one while in high school to pay the monthly fee, but unbeknownst to him, once a year the health club also automatically withdraws a special assessment. It took many telephone calls and ultimately the threat of a negative publicity campaign, reports to the BBB, etc. to get that refunded.

Had it been a credit card account instead of a bank account, it would have been different. I find that the credit card companies are much more successful in getting disputed charges reversed than the bank. We almost never use the debit card any more, for example.
 
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My neighbors aren't content to play their rap music at an agreeable volume. No... they have to play it so the whole neighborhood hears it. If Spinal Tap went to 11, my neighbors are approaching 15, maybe 20. :mad:
 
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ShirtlessBob said:
My neighbors aren't content to play their rap music at an agreeable volume. No... they have to play it so the whole neighborhood hears it. If Spinal Tap went to 11, my neighbors are approaching 15, maybe 20. :mad:
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The obvious solution is to blast "Big Bottom" at 25. :)
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
The obvious solution is to blast "Big Bottom" at 25. :)
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Nah. Play songs like "So What?" by the Anti-Nowhere League (or Metallica, if you're into covers). :D

I pay most of my stuff via web, but never auto-withdrawal. Ever.
 
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I contacted 5 companies to get estimates for painting. I have only received estimates from 2 of them. Two of them missed appointments (one of them TWICE), and the other said they'd have an estimate to me by May 30. This grinds my gears and is why I hate this stuff. I am just picking between the two and eff the others.
 
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Brenthoven said:
Nah. Play songs like "So What?" by the Anti-Nowhere League (or Metallica, if you're into covers). :D

I pay most of my stuff via web, but never auto-withdrawal. Ever.
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No, Brent. Remember when you asked me who Colt Ford was last Friday? And I said he was a terrible "country rapper"? This is the perfect time for Colt Ford, and really, the only time anything by Colt Ford should ever be played is in a situation to annoy someone else.
 
bigblue_dl said:
No, Brent. Remember when you asked me who Colt Ford was last Friday? And I said he was a terrible "country rapper"? This is the perfect time for Colt Ford, and really, the only time anything by Colt Ford should ever be played is in a situation to annoy someone else.
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Try Gregorian Chant.
 
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Gear grinding at the supermarket......

I hit a trifecta today. Woman with lots of groceries, no bagger. She's too busy talking to the checkout clerk to notice, and so the clerk has to do double-duty scanning and bagging both. Then the woman has her goods on the checkout line separated into two piles, so that she can pay for each pile separately. and of course, when it comes time to pay, one of the bills is for $14.97. Naturally she gives the clerk a $10, then counts out 4 $1s, and then [groan] the 97 cents.

Most of the time, I prefer to bag the groceries myself, I've had enough inattentive baggers place the canned goods on top of the lettuce! :mad:
 
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FreshFish said:
Most of the time, I prefer to bag the groceries myself
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I played enough Tetris growing up to know with 100% certainty that I will be able to get the most efficient bagging if I do it myself. I never let anyone touch my groceries. I honest to God put them on the checkout belt in a specific order so I don't have to dink around when bagging.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
I played enough Tetris growing up to know with 100% certainty that I will be able to get the most efficient bagging if I do it myself. I never let anyone touch my groceries. I honest to God put them on the checkout belt in a specific order so I don't have to dink around when bagging.
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This, and my job (which is stacking pallets with stuff), does wonders for my grocery bagging. :D
 
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Occasionally, the people supervising the self-checkout lanes at Meijer will stop and bag my groceries for me. And I wish they wouldn't... they only put 1-2 things in a bag, creating more for me to carry.
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
The obvious solution is to blast "Big Bottom" at 25. :)
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Brenthoven said:
Nah. Play songs like "So What?" by the Anti-Nowhere League (or Metallica, if you're into covers). :D

I pay most of my stuff via web, but never auto-withdrawal. Ever.
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bigblue_dl said:
No, Brent. Remember when you asked me who Colt Ford was last Friday? And I said he was a terrible "country rapper"? This is the perfect time for Colt Ford, and really, the only time anything by Colt Ford should ever be played is in a situation to annoy someone else.
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joecct said:
Try Gregorian Chant.
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Looking through my collection, I have a bunch of awful music I could blast in return. I could start with Limp Bizkit (remember them?), emo/screamo, "Balls to the Wall"- Accept, "I Wish" by Skee-Lo, Hava Nagila, etc.

The only thing holding me back is I don't have the stereo for it.
 
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ShirtlessBob said:
My neighbors aren't content to play their rap music at an agreeable volume. No... they have to play it so the whole neighborhood hears it. If Spinal Tap went to 11, my neighbors are approaching 15, maybe 20. :mad:
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Hmm....is the circuit breaker for their apartment in a place where you can have access to it? ;)

Maybe you can bribe the superintendent to shut off power to their place every time they do it, and he can then convince them that they are the ones blowing the circuit by playing it so loudly.

In some jurisdictions you can call the police and they actually will respond. One time my son had a group of friends over and they were very well behaved, except when they were leaving (they were all in 6th grade). For those 10 minutes during which their parents were picking them up, they were pretty rowdy. Everyone had gone and we were all settled down when the doorbell rang. The police were there because a neighbor had called them about that brief window during which they were leaving. It was pretty funny actually, the police were at the door because someone had complained about a noisy party except there was no noise and no party by the time they arrived. :)
 
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FreshFish said:
Hmm....is the circuit breaker for their apartment in a place where you can have access to it? ;)

Maybe you can bribe the superintendent to shut off power to their place every time they do it, and he can then convince them that they are the ones blowing the circuit by playing it so loudly.

In some jurisdictions you can call the police and they actually will respond. One time my son had a group of friends over and they were very well behaved, except when they were leaving (they were all in 6th grade). For those 10 minutes during which their parents were picking them up, they were pretty rowdy. Everyone had gone and we were all settled down when the doorbell rang. The police were there because a neighbor had called them about that brief window during which they were leaving. It was pretty funny actually, the police were at the door because someone had complained about a noisy party except there was no noise and no party by the time they arrived. :)
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If I lived in an apartment, I could do that. Instead, I live in a residential neighborhood, and most of the noise comes from the wanna be thugs who pass by in their cars. The people who have no space for groceries in their trunk because there's a giant woofer in there.

And cops are generally reluctant to do anything in this neighborhood anyway.
 
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