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To: Rambi who wrote (62795)	5/29/2002 8:27:14 PM
From: Solon	Respond to of 71178

Classic! Don't fight them. Talk to some goof about his hobby or something and get the proper initiatives signed...

To: Rambi who wrote (62795)	5/29/2002 8:35:58 PM
From: Constant Reader	Respond to of 71178

That sounds about right. Good luck straightening that out!

To: Rambi who wrote (62795)	5/29/2002 8:48:06 PM
From: maried.	Respond to of 71178

Of course! They make it out to be your problem and that takes the onus off of them! Pretty smart when you think of it. Get that monkey off of my back and give it to someone else. Now you have an unprotected pool, and those damn turtles and frogs you own are infecting the city's water. Last year when I called, they said they couldn't afford to do us yet. Sorry And whoever you talked to is now working for the city inspector and never heard of you! Ahhh, the downside of a free society. Good luck... goodness will prevail!

To: Rambi who wrote (62795)	5/29/2002 8:54:04 PM
From: Constant Reader	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

You know what this really means don't you? They are going make you put up a new fence immediately. The day after the fence is completed, their men and equipment will show up, inform you that the fence encroaches 3 inches on to their easement, that it will have to be removed so that they can do their work, and that they do not have to put it back up. The day after their job is done and the fence still dismantled, the inspector will visit your house again and give you a second notice (and a court date). You better be careful, Missy, because everyone knows that, in Texas, it's three strikes and you're out!

To: Rambi who wrote (62795)	5/29/2002 8:55:31 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

I am so sorry. That is so frustrating. But pay them back and make them in to a column. They deserve it. Make them sound like the 10 stooges- or however many of them you spoke to. I went "shopping" at the instructional media center for summer school today. I had so much fun. They had a GIVEAWAY rack- with all sorts of stuff for free. I got books on tape of Silas Marner, Harriet Tubman, Huckleberry Fin, Romeo and Juliet, and a bunch of other things. I am just thrilled. Plus they had new phonics books for my kids. And they had these phonic cards with which we "body code" the alphabet. I would try to explain it to you, but it would sound silly- and it really isn't. It is one of the neatest tricks I've learned this year- a trick which helps struggling readers. I just love those. Also I placed my "stores" order (in house school ordering system). They give me 100 dollars for teaching the whole summer- and I get a catalog to order from. It is so FUN!!! I ordered all sorts of neat stuff. Last year they gave us the order form with a sample page from the catalog- which I thought was the whole thing. And when the orders came I was puzzled why teh other teachers had all this neat stuff and I had paper and crayons and pencils and tape. WELL this year I'm really on top of things, maybe. I know 100 dollars doesn't seem like much- but things are cheap- clipboards (for example) are 61 cents. I know this because I ordered 20 of them. Nothing makes a kid want to write like giving them a clipboard and letting them write underneath a desk. Go figure.

To: Rambi who wrote (62795)	5/29/2002 9:17:35 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Well, you deserve it for causing them all that trouble! < BIG G >

To: Rambi who wrote (62795)	5/30/2002 9:53:13 AM
From: Justin C	Respond to of 71178

property code violations Your municipality is apparently unaware that the man of the house can snap his fingers and have one of its chief benefactors relocated to, say, Houston, where we have TV's Marvin Zindler to expose and take care of life's annoying situations. Do you suppose fellow townsman Pat Summerall shares your difficulties?

To: Rambi who wrote (62795)	5/30/2002 10:12:44 AM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

<<"Please call us about your property code violations." >> I know a guy who got a no occupancy sticker on his door for a property code violation. Took him 3 weeks to find out what the violation was. His kitchen sink wasn't hooked up properly. The odd thing about it is, it wasn't his kitchen sink. It was a metal sink/cabinet combination in his storage area that he used for storage and a work bench. Not a pipe within 10' of it.

To: Rambi who wrote (62795)	5/30/2002 7:29:07 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I'll be slightly off key...as usual. I had a friend (Dave) who was having a house built a while back. When the surveyor was out putting some stakes in the dirt Dave set up a tri-pod. Every few days Dave would be out with his camera taking shots of the development. I figured Dave was simply trying to keep a record for the grand kids. Nope, Dave wanted to make sure he had evidence. That became very apparent by the reaction he began to get from the construction workers when he brought out the camera. Dave's house was practically flawless (compared to some of the others in the project). Before the finish work on the home was started Dave approached the contractor with a list of things he wanted "taken care of." I figured my buddy Dave was pretty slick. So, I was bragging to a contractor (Gus) about how cleaver my buddy was and gus started chuckling. Gus told me about his approach to dealing with overly enthusiastic buyers. Gus invites the home buyer out to take a look at the blue prints and do a walk about, at the earliest opportunity. He presses the buyer to clue him in on anything that should be "dealt with." Inevitably the buyer wants an extra electrical outlet or something. Gus makes a point not to put the electrical outlet in until the very last moment. But, each time the buyer shows up he walks him to the point where it will be placed, makes a big deal about how he will see to it himself and pushes beer or what ever in the buyers face to get he subject changed.

To: Rambi who wrote (62795)	5/30/2002 8:04:18 PM
From: Tom C	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

I saw your link to this post on the SMBR thread. It reminds me of a run in I had with an insurance company a few years back. I was working at a company for about a year when after a dental appointment I received a notice indicating the dental bill had been paid. It was a typical company dental plan notice showing my dentist had filed a claim and he was paid in full. What was unusual was the plan paying for the services was a company I worked at prior to my then current company. The company where I was working used the same insurance carrier as the company I left the year before. Looking through my records I discovered this was not the first time my prior employer’s plan had reimbursed my dentist. It was the third time and there was also a doctor visit charged to my old employer. Some internal fairness meter tilted toward making a call to the plan administrator to ask them to rearrange the charges so they were against the correct company plan. It was a mistake. It took several days of calling before I got someone who cared, much less might help me. I remember hearing that the problem was with the computer system. When they entered my plan information for my at that time present company, it was kicked out because I was already in the system. I was told they would take care of it. One week later my doctor’s office and my dentist’s office left me phone messages demanding I send them checks for the entire amount for each of my visits for the past year. Tom