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Pastimes : Where the GIT's are going -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ish who wrote (157514)	1/17/2008 1:18:51 PM
From: Oral Roberts	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 225578

It's snowing here. Obviously everyone in WI has forgotten how to drive in snow. So I am on the other side of town picking up office supplies and every jerk off on the road is driving 10 mph. So I am crawling back and decide to stop off at Kentucky Fried Chicken and pick up a meal. I order a 3 piece leg/thigh combo, guy repeats order back and asks regular or crispy. I respond regular. He repeats back my correct order again and I drive around, pick up my food and make the mistake of not checking and driving all the way across town to my office to find I have some chicken tender meal. Grrrrr. So I normally wouldn't bother but since I was in a foul mood anyhow I call them up and ask to speak to the manager. I tell him what I ordered and what I received. He said what number meal did you order. I say I didn't, I just said I want the 3 piece leg/thigh combo. He says if you didn't order a meal by the number we can't guarantee you will get your correct meal. I said let me see if I get this straight, I order, your guy repeats back order correctly, charges me for the 3 piece meal but gives me a chicken tender meal and this is my fault because I didn't order by a meal number. He said that is correct. I said I would like the name and phone number of the owner of this store. He said why. I said because he needs to know that his manager is an f-ing moron with no customer service sense what so ever and on top of that has hired a bunch of illiterate morons who are incapable of filling an order in any other manner then by number. Silence, then what do you want me to do. I said the only thing you can do, supply me with my money or give me an in store credit so at some future date I can get the meal I ordered and paid for. He agreed to that but said I shouldn't be so rude. I said dood when you give someone the wrong meal you just say sorry sir we will make it right, you don't try to convince the customer he is at fault for not ordering by a number. I said goodbye and slammed the phone and then screamed obscenities at my phone. He has no idea how rude I truly wanted to be.

To: Ish who wrote (157514)	1/17/2008 2:32:19 PM
From: Carolyn	Respond to of 225578

Well, it is good for you. so that is what counts.

To: Ish who wrote (157514)	1/18/2008 11:11:46 AM
From: PatiBob	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 225578

Ish, there's another person with you're nickname that made the news today. Glad it's not you but wish you had their money. chron.com Jan. 18, 2008, 4:09AM Mich. couple leave surprise $1.6M to friends, neighbors Associated Press LOWELL, Mich. — Farmer Willis Hatch and his schoolteacher wife, Arlene, lived simply but blissfully together for 57 years before dying in an auto accident in November. Now, about 70 of their friends and neighbors are surprised to find themselves a collective $1.6 million richer as the beneficiaries of the late couple's frugality and generosity. The recipients of their generosity were bequeathed certificates of deposit ranging in value from $5,000 to more than $100,000. The couple's estate was valued at $2.9 million and included the CDs, the farm and some stocks. "Isn't that something?" said Sandra VanWeelden, 72, whose family, including three grown children, received about $250,000 from the Hatches, who never had children of their own and lived into their early 90s. Before they retired, Willis — known to his friends as "Ish" — worked their 80-acre farm just south of Lowell, and Arlene taught at Lowell Middle School. The couple went everywhere together: church services, community pancake breakfasts, school plays. They enjoyed winter trips to Brownsville, Texas, but allowed themselves few other luxuries. "They was normal people, good people," Harry Erickson, 72, told The Grand Rapids Press for a story published Thursday. "And it didn't matter to them if you had one dollar or 10, they'd be your friend." Judging by the amount of money they doled out, the couple had many friends, including fellow parishioners at Alto United Methodist Church, where many of the beneficiaries are members. "We, the whole church, are obviously grateful to them, and grateful to God that he gave them to us," said the Rev. Dean Bailey. Added Bailey's wife, Jan: "They left a lot to the people they'd loved, and I think everybody was surprised." That included the Baileys, who were notified that the Hatches had left the church about $50,000 toward a fund trying to raise $800,000 for a new building. Their gift, said the pastor, represents "about a year's worth of our fundraising capability."