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Gear Grinding Part 5: The Story of the Broken Tooth

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bigblue_dl said:
Or eat a burger while driving a stick, that is really how I learned. The first vehicle I drove (legally) was a Dodge Ram 2500 with a 8.0L V10 and a 5-speed manual. That thing had some grunt, but it was a good truck to drive with my knees. These days I do it when I'm eating, or just for the hell of it. Can go 20, 30 miles on the highway without touching the wheel.
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It must be nice to have pothole-free roads. Around here, you couldn't go that far without your steering wheel receiving a solid jolt to one side or the other. Our cars get wheels re-aligned regularly.



I may have quoted this line before: when they do sobriety checks around here, they pull over people driving in a straight line. All the sober drivers are veering left and right to avoid the potholes.
 
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FreshFish said:
It must be nice to have pothole-free roads. Around here, you couldn't go that far without your steering wheel receiving a solid jolt to one side or the other. Our cars get wheels re-aligned regularly.



I may have quoted this line before: when they do sobriety checks around here, they pull over people driving in a straight line. All the sober drivers are veering left and right to avoid the potholes.
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The roads in rural MN are in a very nice condition. There's a mandate within the state that requires a 1:1 transit spending ratio between the Twin Cities metro and rural MN. That means you'll see some of the most pristine roads around when you're in that part of the state. You get into the Twin Cities and you'll find potholes a plenty. Once upon a time that spending mandate made sense since the population demos still favored the rural portions of the state, but not anymore. Not for a long time.
 
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What irks me is receiving text messages full of abbreviations and text speak. Is it that hard to type out the word "you" on your phone?
 
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ShirtlessBob said:
What irks me is receiving text messages full of abbreviations and text speak. Is it that hard to type out the word "you" on your phone?
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Ditto. I hate that autocorrect doesn't flag words like:
  • "u" instead of "I"
  • "kinda" instead of "kinds"
  • "ur" instead of "it"
 
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Vacation was awesome. However, coming back from vacation with a week's worth of work to catch up on, then having someone else out at her busiest time (beginning of the month) with myself being the only one available to cover for her, plus trying to prepare for an audit that was moved up a week, and not being in the office one day next week is grinding my gears.

I hope my run-on sentance didn't grind too many gears.

Oh, and autocorrect grinds my gears. Sometimes I like to misspell things for comical effect...stop trying to correct them!
 
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Auto correct thinks my name is 'Polite as'. New phone's auto correct drives me insane.
 
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bigblue_dl said:
You should be able to turn it off in the settings.
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This. I always have turned off auto-correct/fill-in on my phones. Sure it takes a bit longer (couple seconds) to create a text, but it's worth it.
 
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I don't understand the iPhone autocorrect at all. After two years it will thinks I'm trying to say gaga instead of haha, when i don't believe i have ever actually sent a text that said gaga, which you think would signal for it to switch to haha. However, once I accidentally spelled probably, "probabalto" and it took me almost two weeks for it to finally stop correcting to that. I don't even know how I spelled it like that in the first place, must've been looking up while typing or something.

And never, ever, make the mistake of using a name for the first time in all caps. One of my friends gets really excited about baseball news, and her phone still says AUSMUS, MIGGY, and VICTOR whenever she uses those.
 
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I delete my autocorrect dictionary about once every six months just to wipe those things out.
 
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I have already wasted 2.5 hours of my week trying to cancel Comcast internet service. This is in addition to the 5 times I have called this year to get them to correct my bill. They keep billing me for modem rental on a modem that I've owned for 10 years (the entire time I've had Comcast). The modem billing thing has happened before; everytime I moved and then every couple of years between moves). In the past it was cleared up after a few phone calls. This time it hasn't been cleared up, so I tried to cancel my service. Unfortunately, everyone I talk to at Comcast says they have to transfer me 'cause they can't do that.

Anyway, I've been subtracting the $8 a month because I refuse to pay for a service that isn't being provided, and now I'm also subtracting the $9.50 in late fees (since I'm not paying the amount they think I owe). Now they have a hold on my account and the lousy customer service phone people tell me they can't do anything because of the hold on my account, that I have to go to a service center. I went to the service center Wednesday around 4:45 (hoping to beat the after work crowd). They were helping customer #45, the next available number to take was #99. I left. So did the guy behind me.

I tried to call again. I get through the 3 minutes of automated prompts and wait on hold for 15 minutes, just to get a "all operators are busy, leave your name and number" message. Umm...did I really need to be put on hold for that?

Point of the story is I hate Comcast, oh so very much. I've never been happy with them, but this is just stupid. I would like the hours of my time back as well as the piece of sanity that I lose dealing with them. I swear everytime I call I end up screaming at an automated prompt, crying and drinking.

Anyway, today I should get off work early so I can go to the service center to cancel my service. :mad: I've packed "Game of Thrones" in my purse which is a nice long book, so hopefully I won't get bored as I wait and wait and wait. Oh, and I have AT&T scheduled to set up internet next week. Which, while I hear their service is just as awful, at least it's not Comcast.
 
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Last time I called up to tell them I was being charged for a modem I didn't rent, it took 5 minutes on the phone and they had it off my bill and credited me the last four months that it was on there (I autopay so I don't always see these things).
 
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wolverineTrumpet said:
Anyway, today I should get off work early so I can go to the service center to cancel my service. :mad: I've packed "Game of Thrones" in my purse which is a nice long book, so hopefully I won't get bored as I wait and wait and wait. Oh, and I have AT&T scheduled to set up internet next week. Which, while I hear their service is just as awful, at least it's not Comcast.
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Two things, a suggestion and a comment.

When you go to the Comcast "service" center, I strongly recommend you bring a folding chair. Our local "service" center did not have any chairs in the waiting area at all. If they are going to force you to wait interminably, they should at least give you a place to sit! :mad:


Regarding AT&T: we had Uverse for awhile and were quite satisfied with it (except for one niggling detail). Their customer service was top notch, always helpful and responsive. the only problem we had was that, whenever there was a thunderstorm in our neighborhood, it knocked out service, not just to us, but everyone in the neighborhood, and they had to send someone out to reset something somewhere.

We are grudgingly back on Comcast due to a "bundle" offer that was too good to ignore, but I wouldn't hesitate to go back to Uverse if they have fixed that problem.
 
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I don't know anyone who has had good customer service from Comcast. They are a pathetic excuse for a company. I cannot wait until I have a different option for high speed internet, since right now they are the only option.
 
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I have had good customer service from them the last five or six times I've called. Also the installation and service visit they made.

I hate that company with all my being but I can't say I haven't had good service since I moved to the new house.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
I have had good customer service from them the last five or six times I've called. Also the installation and service visit they made.

I hate that company with all my being but I can't say I haven't had good service since I moved to the new house.
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Their service around here used to be atrocious, until AT&T Uverse became available. Suddenly, their service improved tremendously. Funny how that works, eh?
 
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FreshFish said:
Their service around here used to be atrocious, until AT&T Uverse became available. Suddenly, their service improved tremendously. Funny how that works, eh?
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There are similar stories in cities where Google Fiber was installed. Overnight Comcast would double cable internet speeds, drop prices, and give other perks.
 
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Pretty sure Comcast uses Lily Tomlines "Ernistine" character as a documentary.

Comcast doesn't care, and they don't have to. They're THE Cable Company.
 
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I always had great customer service from Comcast until this last time when I wanted to downgrade my cable to the super-basic, and up my internet. They fried the modem (because it was outdated and couldn't handle the higher speeds or something), then they wanted to charge me for a service call (which couldn't happen until a week later). I beeched a WHOLE lot, and they overnighted me a new modem (no charge).

Then THAT one didn't work, so had to get a service call anyway, which they wanted to charge me for. I beeched some more, since all this was caused by them. They finally said it would be free. The tech came out, showed me his report saying it would be free. Then I saw my bill from Comcast charging me for the visit. When I called them, they said they couldn't take that charge off, but I'd get free HBO for 6 months. I told them they could charge whatever they wanted, but I don't want HBO, and I wouldn't pay the service charge. They finally gave in.

Then I got a notice in the mail that I was getting HBO anyway (which they'll start charging for unless you cancel the free promo thing). EVERY problem during this whole time was going to be solved by simply giving me free HBO. Not kidding. This whole ordeal took about 2-3 weeks.
 
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