Outsource & Memorial Overdose?

Here I go complaining again but I have to say I am really disgusted with companies who contract out services to foreign companies and we have to sit here and try to figure out what they are saying when we call a support line. We all know companies that do that are trying to charge us $100 for a service that they pay a quarter for. We spend twice the time on a tech help call than we should. If they are going to outsource at least do it to a country that speaks a similar language that we do. Lets all let these companies know that we are disgusted with their practices. I have nothing against foreigners but I would like to be able to understand what they are trying to tell me. Then there are the American jobs that are lost by sending them overseas. Perhaps our people would like a good job, be able to communicate with customers and those customers might use those companies more. What do you think??

I also want to agree with my son's post to lets let all this memorial publicity die down some. I know people like to remember their loved ones who have died and I feel the same way about my parents and brother who died but I don't have memorial service on the tv every year, after year, after year. I know lots of people who had relatives that died in accidents and they didn't get millions of dollars. What made the 9-11 office workers any different than these people? They died in an accident. Our state not only has to hear about 9-11 but we have the Murrah Bombing also. Fire fighters and police yes because they try to save people. Then there is Princess Diana, I loved her too but I don't need a rerun every year about how she died. Lets move on and let these families move on.

On my SOAP BOX

I have to step up on my Soap Box for this post. What has happened to "good service"?

By this I mean listening to the customer and giving them what they ordered. I am so tired of going through a drive thru and asking for something and then having to check each item in the sack before I drive off. (I recently got home and had no sausage in my sausage, egg and cheese mcmuffin so I got in the car, drove back and parked, went inside and walked straight to the front of the line and announced in a rather loud and upset voice that they left off the sausage! My son, once went in and asked them if it was in their training book. When asked what training book, he stated the one that tells you to get everyones order wrong!)

Or having to ask the car hop which drink is which. It seems they don't care if you all have to drink after each other because you can't tell one drink from the other. I wonder why, whoever fills the drink cups, doesn't have time to punch the lid or mark the cup as to what type of drink is inside.

Then there is going through the drive thru (which is there to save time) and having to turn your car off so you don't use all your gas while you wait in line for 20 minutes. Everyone should complain to fast food places to make the drive thru for picking up called in orders or getting drinks ONLY.

They have parking places to order food while you are there but no, people have to go through the drive thru and order 6 hamburgers with fries, 5 orders of onion rings, 4 milk shakes, 2 orders of popcorn chicken, 3 chicken wraps, 5 cokes, 3 Dr Peppers, 4 ice cream sundaes and 1 chicken salad. Of course the drive-in cooks their food while you wait to meet their "fresh cooked" advertisements. I seriously doubt there are very many people who couldn't call in their orders, after all most people have a cell phone attached to their ear.

The long waits in a drive thru are costing America twice the amount of gasoline. Why when the gas is so high are the waits so long???? Just yesterday we were in line for a cup of ice cream for my grandson and after having to turn the car off and waiting 15 minutes I just pulled out of line and we went somewhere else.

Cell phones are another peeve, or at least the use of a cell phone while driving. You have to honk to get people to drive on when the light turns green because they are on the phone, they can't use a turn signal because they don't have a free hand, they can't check when switching lanes because they are on the phone. I personally hope the laws asking for no hand held cell phone usage while driving a vehicle passes. My city has a military installation that put that into effect some time ago and I don't see anyone being deprived of anything because they can't chat while driving. Once upon a time people grocery shopped, walked through a parking lot, got clothes in the mall, ate in a restaurant, drove a car, and went to the movies or theatre without talking on a cell phone. Oh my gosh those people didn't die or dry up.

Now if you want to tell me "if I don't like the wait in a drive thru don't go," and all those other don'ts just don't comment please. However if you agree with my oration or have some of your own pet peeves let us know what you think.

A friend sent this and I had to share it........

Ramblings of a Retired Mind
(author unknown)

I was thinking about how a status symbol of today is those cell phones that everyone has clipped onto their belt or purse. I can't afford one. So, I'm wearing my garage door opener.

You know, I spent a fortune on deodorant before I realized that people didn't like me anyway.

I was thinking that women should put pictures of missing husbands on beer cans!

I was thinking about old age and decided that old age is 'when you still have something on the ball, but you are just too tired to bounce it.'

I know, when people see a cat's litter box, they always say, "Oh, have you got a cat?" Just once I want to say, "No, it's for company!"

Employment application blanks always ask 'who is to be notified in case of an emergency.' I think you should write, "A Good Doctor!"

Why do they put pictures of criminals up in the
Post Office? What are we supposed to do... write to these men? Why don't they just put their pictures on the postage stamps so the mailmen could look for them while they deliver the mail? Or better yet, arrest them while they are taking their pictures!

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older. Then, it dawned on me, they were cramming for their finals.

As for me, I'm just hoping God grades on the curve.

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Baggy Pants???

Today, on a morning news show, they were telling the world that the city of Atlanta was thinking about banning the drooping pants of its male population. I totally agree with this as I am really tired of looking at a "Plumbers butt" every time a young man bends over at the store. It is totally disgusting plus I hate to see their underwear. They have to hold them up as they walk and that looks stupid too. Where is the pride in appearance that people should have? There are a lot of women who wear skirts far too short for their figures and I wait with baited breath for them to bend over! I think it is time for all our fashion magazines to start showing "just a nice way to dress for everyday"..... knock off the stick shaped models and show the average person what are basic ways to dress for being in the public. There were a lot of comments about there being more important things to worry about but you know, no one is worrying about important things so if not lets think about baggy pants.

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Color Splash

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Look at some of David's room designs on his website.

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