Daily Annoyances

[Fat Charlie]

Originally Posted by wdb

...instead of waiting for the emergency declaration, I anticipate his inaction and do his work for him in a more timely manner.

It still grates at me.

Don't present him with his completed work until after his declaration. "Here. We figured it'd go like this, so we did it ourselves." A few examples of that and he might be seen as redundant.

[Arragonis]

I used to have a boss who was a "seagull manager".

He would fly high above our heads, occasionally we could hear him make screaching noises in the distance and we would get sh|t dropped on us from a great height.

When he would come down to earth it involved a lot of louder screaching, fuss, disturbance abd general mayhem.

And then when he would return to flying high above us minions we would be left with the mess to clean up before we could carry on as before.

[jamesqf]

Originally Posted by larrybuck

Some of you must have your horror stories as well...

Well, there was the (national chain) tire shop that forgot to put the lug nuts back on one wheel of my pickup. Drove fine for a couple of blocks, made a left turn, felt a thump as the corner dropped, and I watched in bemusement as the tire went rolling merrily down the road.

[Clev]

Originally Posted by jamesqf

Well, there was the (national chain) tire shop that forgot to put the lug nuts back on one wheel of my pickup. Drove fine for a couple of blocks, made a left turn, felt a thump as the corner dropped, and I watched in bemusement as the tire went rolling merrily down the road.

I went to one of those "lube" places that works in a "jiffy." They brought me my air filter to try to upsell me. When I declined to pay $35 for a $5 item, they buttoned up the car and gave it back to me.

A few months later, I bought a replacement filter and opened up the cannister... to find that I'd been running without an air filter for several thousand miles!

[Arragonis]

I had a tire place put the jack under the passenger footwell floor to raise my (original) Mini to fit new tyres. The jack was still under the car and the dent just above it whilst the manager denied they had done it.

Madness, and very expensive for them at the time.

[RH77]

Pardon the drama, but it has been a rough morning...

Hot? HOT? HOT! FIRE!!!

When someone's using a relatively new heating pad (like for a sore back), one doesn't expect it to get really hot and BURST INTO FLAMES.

So, I'm sitting there -- ahh, this feels good. Hmmm, getting too hot, I'll turn it down. All of the sudden it gets really hot and HOTTER! Ouch! Then FIRE!

I ripped the cord out of the wall and it ran to the kitchen sink and watered it down. The whole pad arced and began burning the rubber enclosure and the nylon cover with lots of smoke and noxious fumes. If it was unattended, it could have started a significant fire.

Luckily I noticed the excessive heat and got up to look at it, so no burns.

In conclusion, the back strain: worse.

[Fat Charlie]

The package said "Guaranteed to get you right back up on your feet." They just didn't say why.

[Arragonis]

Hot water bottles are really great for most sprains - when too hot they can be wrapped in towels and when cooller are soft enough to put against the affected part and rarely fail. And if they do then you have a slightly damp bit, which is safer than a fire.

[RH77]

Originally Posted by Fat Charlie

The package said "Guaranteed to get you right back up on your feet." They just didn't say why.

LOL that's for sure! But they never say for how long...

Originally Posted by Arragonis

Hot water bottles are really great for most sprains - when too hot they can be wrapped in towels and when cooller are soft enough to put against the affected part and rarely fail. And if they do then you have a slightly damp bit, which is safer than a fire.

We may look into that. I thought the problems with older units had been resolved, but it's still a cheap electrical appliance prone to failure. I'm also fortunate that I didn't get shocked either:

110V @ ~35W = 0.32 Amps -- enough to become a VERY uncomfortable TENS unit. :/

RH77

[wdb]

We have a beanbaggish thingie that goes in the microwave for a minute or so, and comes out piping hot. Stays that way for the amount of time medical folks will tell you to use such a thingie, about 20 minutes.

"Seagull manager". I like.