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RichD
Mar 3, 2012, 8:56:37 PM3/3/12
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I'm shopping at Fry's the other day, a sales girl approaches
and asks,"Would you like to hear about our daily specials?"
So I go, "No thanks."
Then she exclaimed "Awesome!" And skipped off in
search of other prey.
For some reason, I find this incident deeply significant -
--
Rich
and asks,"Would you like to hear about our daily specials?"
So I go, "No thanks."
Then she exclaimed "Awesome!" And skipped off in
search of other prey.
For some reason, I find this incident deeply significant -
--
Rich
Jamie
Mar 3, 2012, 9:23:05 PM3/3/12
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Jamie
Joerg
Mar 3, 2012, 9:17:03 PM3/3/12
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I just had a shocker of another kind. Got a roofing quote via fax. The
very same one we had accepted many years ago and where the roofer did a
fine job. So I wanted to call them to tell them that their computer is
sending "ghosts from the past". Number disconnected. Went on the web.
What I found was an obituary. He was two years younger than me, still
can't believe it :-(
--
Regards, Joerg
http://www.analogconsultants.com/
Dennis
Mar 3, 2012, 9:34:06 PM3/3/12
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Walking in the local mall last week, girl in gym gear walks up and says "are
you interested in a great new gym membership deal"?
I looked at my guts and said "do I look like I'm interested in a great new
membership deal?"
She wet herself laughing.
Jamie
Mar 3, 2012, 9:41:53 PM3/3/12
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memory up until it gets full, prior scans.
His ghost must of hit the print button for you :)
Don't feel strange about it , I've had two family members that were
close to me pass away over the years, my grandmother and just recently
my mother. In both cases, strange events, but in both cases, I was able
to piece it together and understand it.
We live in a strange universe. I just think of it as waking up from a
sleep when people pass away. What the living is experiencing are the
dead, which actually just woke up, letting their friends know they are
off to work for the day. Day being a long time or what time is there.
What a concept, but I'll stick to that for now. :)
Now if I could take my earnings with me, I'd be living a little
differently.
Jamie
Bastette
Mar 4, 2012, 12:04:31 AM3/4/12
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In rec.arts.tv RichD <r_dela...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm shopping at Fry's the other day, a sales girl approaches
> and asks,"Would you like to hear about our daily specials?"
> So I go, "No thanks."
> Then she exclaimed "Awesome!" And skipped off in
> search of other prey.
I haven't been to Fry's for quite a few years, but I see that things
> I'm shopping at Fry's the other day, a sales girl approaches
> and asks,"Would you like to hear about our daily specials?"
> So I go, "No thanks."
> Then she exclaimed "Awesome!" And skipped off in
> search of other prey.
haven't changed much. They still have that excellent customer service.
Clearly she was happy because you didn't need her to do her job.
I once brought in my VCR for a repair. The guy behind the counter said
they'd call me within 2 days to let me know how long it would take to
fix it. A week passed by, no call. Finally, I called them. I got some
teenager who sounded about 14. When I asked him what was happening with
my VCR, he just said, "I dunno". Nothing else. He was oozing apathy. I
wasn't sure I'd ever get it back. (I did, eventually - it took them
about 2 months, and many phone calls from me.)
Unfortunately, I had made the mistake of buying the VCR from them,
so I had to bring it to them for repairs unless I wanted to pay for
it. Never again, though!
I tried going there a couple of times after that (for unrelated
purchases). Just before going into the store, I would say to myself,
"I'm not going to get angry. I'm not going to lose my temper," and
then I'd go in. Within 5 minutes, it seemed, I'd be yelling at
someone. They're just so incompetent. They do things in a way that
seem like they want to aggravate the customer as much as possible.
There is no other store anywhere that annoys me more, so I just don't
shop there anymore. Not worth it. The Dalai Lama would lose his
temper with those people!
Bastette
William Sommerwerck
Mar 4, 2012, 5:54:18 AM3/4/12
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"Bastette" <bastX...@sonic.net> wrote in message
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> I tried going there a couple of times after that (for unrelated
> purchases). Just before going into the store, I would say to myself,
> "I'm not going to get angry. I'm not going to lose my temper," and
> then I'd go in. Within 5 minutes, it seemed, I'd be yelling at
> someone. They're just so incompetent. They do things in a way that
> seem like they want to aggravate the customer as much as possible.
> There is no other store anywhere that annoys me more, so I just don't
> shop there anymore. Not worth it. The Dalai Lama would lose his
> temper with those people!
I don't go to Fry's unless I have a good idea of what I want. But I've found
the service at the local Fry's acceptable or better. In particular, one
department manager went out of her way to get me a copy of Copy Commander,
which was the only product that would do what I needed.
news:4f52f7df$0$12006$742e...@news.sonic.net...
> I tried going there a couple of times after that (for unrelated
> purchases). Just before going into the store, I would say to myself,
> "I'm not going to get angry. I'm not going to lose my temper," and
> then I'd go in. Within 5 minutes, it seemed, I'd be yelling at
> someone. They're just so incompetent. They do things in a way that
> seem like they want to aggravate the customer as much as possible.
> There is no other store anywhere that annoys me more, so I just don't
> shop there anymore. Not worth it. The Dalai Lama would lose his
> temper with those people!
the service at the local Fry's acceptable or better. In particular, one
department manager went out of her way to get me a copy of Copy Commander,
which was the only product that would do what I needed.
Dufus
Mar 4, 2012, 7:44:33 AM3/4/12
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>On Mar 3, 8:34 pm, "Dennis" <jon.do...@ithemorgue.com> wrote:
,"Would you like to hear about our daily specials?"
> So I go, "No thanks."
> Then she exclaimed "Awesome!" And skipped off in
> search of other prey.
,"Would you like to hear about our daily specials?"
> So I go, "No thanks."
> Then she exclaimed "Awesome!" And skipped off in
> search of other prey.
> I looked at my guts and said "do I look like I'm interested in a great new
> membership deal?"
>
> She wet herself laughing.
2 blondes ?
> membership deal?"
>
> She wet herself laughing.
" Last year I replaced all the windows in my house with that expensive
double-pane energy efficient kind, and today, I got a call from the
contractor who installed them. He was complaining that the work had
been completed a whole year ago and I still hadn’t paid for them.
Hellloooo,………..just because I’m blonde doesn’t mean that I am
automatically stupid.
So, I told him just what his fast talking sales guy had told me last
year, that in ONE YEAR these windows would pay for themselves!
Helllooooo? It’s been a year, I told him!
There was only silence at the other end of the line, so I finally just
hung up.
He never called back.
I bet he felt like an idiot."
Dennis
Mar 4, 2012, 7:59:49 AM3/4/12
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ha ha !
k...@att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz
Mar 4, 2012, 11:02:29 AM3/4/12
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have a little time to kill. I've yet to walk out of there with anything,
though. When I was a regular visitor to SillyValley (from Vermont), I'd spend
some time gawking at Frys, too. I bought a few things, then (once lugging
home 1000' of cat-5 in checked baggage, when I couldn't get it in the NE) but
not that much. The prices aren't anything to write home about and most of the
stuff is low to mid-range. Mostly I get the feeling that I need to shower
after I'm there a while.
Steve de Mena
Mar 4, 2012, 11:03:05 AM3/4/12
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cable, or if I see an awesome deal (typically a hard drive) in their
Friday newspaper ad.
Steve
Matthew B. Tepper
Mar 4, 2012, 11:16:27 AM3/4/12
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Joerg <inv...@invalid.invalid> appears to have caused the following
letters to be typed in news:9rg1la...@mid.individual.net:
A few weeks ago we went to a big shindig at my old high school which was a
reunion of the various graduating classes from the '70s. I did run into
some of my old classmates, of course, and even one of the teachers from
that era, who is well into her nineties. At one point I saw someone I
would typically characterize as "an older gentleman," who had a lined face,
a fringe of hair around a chrome dome, and a white spade beard. Then I
looked at his name tag and saw that he had graduated four years after me.
--
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reunion of the various graduating classes from the '70s. I did run into
some of my old classmates, of course, and even one of the teachers from
that era, who is well into her nineties. At one point I saw someone I
would typically characterize as "an older gentleman," who had a lined face,
a fringe of hair around a chrome dome, and a white spade beard. Then I
looked at his name tag and saw that he had graduated four years after me.
--
Matthew B. Tepper: WWW, science fiction, classical music, ducks!!
Read about "Proty" here: http://home.earthlink.net/~oy/proty.html
To write to me, do for my address what Androcles did for the lion
Opinions expressed here are not necessarily those of my employers.
Matthew B. Tepper
Mar 4, 2012, 11:16:28 AM3/4/12
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> With mail order I only go there [Fry's] if I need something *today", like a
December, and they (nor anyone else) had one, because of price-gouging after
those terrible floods which displaced so many people in Thailand. (A friend
did eventually dig up a couple of drives for me as a Hanukkah gift.)
letters to be typed in news:MtGdnYcGg86nD87S...@giganews.com:
> With mail order I only go there [Fry's] if I need something *today", like a
> cable, or if I see an awesome deal (typically a hard drive) in their
> Friday newspaper ad.
Well, I was looking for an "awesome deal" on a hard drive back in November/
> Friday newspaper ad.
December, and they (nor anyone else) had one, because of price-gouging after
those terrible floods which displaced so many people in Thailand. (A friend
did eventually dig up a couple of drives for me as a Hanukkah gift.)
Matthew B. Tepper
Mar 4, 2012, 11:16:27 AM3/4/12
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"Dennis" <jon....@ithemorgue.com> appears to have caused the following
> Walking in the local mall last week, girl in gym gear walks up and says
> "are you interested in a great new gym membership deal"?
>
> I looked at my guts and said "do I look like I'm interested in a great
> new membership deal?"
>
> She wet herself laughing.
Every now and then, one sees Sweet Young Things accosting people in
supermarket parking lots, trying to sell them Dodgers season tickets. One
such time, I was so tempted to tell the Sweet Young Thing, "Thank you, but I
attended Sandy Koufax' perfect game in 1965, and after that, anything else
would just be anticlimactic."
Then I realized that the S.Y.T. would probably have said, "Who's Sandy
Koufax?" Better not to put myself into that situation after all.
letters to be typed in
news:B_mdnQUY-tw8Sc_S...@westnet.com.au:
> Walking in the local mall last week, girl in gym gear walks up and says
> "are you interested in a great new gym membership deal"?
>
> I looked at my guts and said "do I look like I'm interested in a great
> new membership deal?"
>
> She wet herself laughing.
supermarket parking lots, trying to sell them Dodgers season tickets. One
such time, I was so tempted to tell the Sweet Young Thing, "Thank you, but I
attended Sandy Koufax' perfect game in 1965, and after that, anything else
would just be anticlimactic."
Then I realized that the S.Y.T. would probably have said, "Who's Sandy
Koufax?" Better not to put myself into that situation after all.
Mason Barge
Mar 4, 2012, 12:27:08 PM3/4/12
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On 04 Mar 2012 05:04:31 GMT, Bastette <bastX...@sonic.net> wrote:
>In rec.arts.tv RichD <r_dela...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I'm shopping at Fry's the other day, a sales girl approaches
> > and asks,"Would you like to hear about our daily specials?"
> > So I go, "No thanks."
> > Then she exclaimed "Awesome!" And skipped off in
> > search of other prey.
>
>I haven't been to Fry's for quite a few years, but I see that things
>haven't changed much. They still have that excellent customer service.
>Clearly she was happy because you didn't need her to do her job.
>
>I once brought in my VCR for a repair. The guy behind the counter said
>they'd call me within 2 days to let me know how long it would take to
>fix it. A week passed by, no call. Finally, I called them. I got some
>teenager who sounded about 14. When I asked him what was happening with
>my VCR, he just said, "I dunno". Nothing else. He was oozing apathy. I
>wasn't sure I'd ever get it back. (I did, eventually - it took them
>about 2 months, and many phone calls from me.)
Did you complain to the Better Business Bureau?
>In rec.arts.tv RichD <r_dela...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I'm shopping at Fry's the other day, a sales girl approaches
> > and asks,"Would you like to hear about our daily specials?"
> > So I go, "No thanks."
> > Then she exclaimed "Awesome!" And skipped off in
> > search of other prey.
>
>I haven't been to Fry's for quite a few years, but I see that things
>haven't changed much. They still have that excellent customer service.
>Clearly she was happy because you didn't need her to do her job.
>
>I once brought in my VCR for a repair. The guy behind the counter said
>they'd call me within 2 days to let me know how long it would take to
>fix it. A week passed by, no call. Finally, I called them. I got some
>teenager who sounded about 14. When I asked him what was happening with
>my VCR, he just said, "I dunno". Nothing else. He was oozing apathy. I
>wasn't sure I'd ever get it back. (I did, eventually - it took them
>about 2 months, and many phone calls from me.)
anim8rFSK
Mar 4, 2012, 12:34:50 PM3/4/12
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Mason Barge
Mar 4, 2012, 2:31:37 PM3/4/12
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Michael A. Terrell
Mar 4, 2012, 11:04:12 PM3/4/12
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computer died. I got an email the next day with a subject line of "From
Phil Poole" which was deleted without being read.
--
You can't have a sense of humor, if you have no sense.
Joerg
Mar 5, 2012, 11:33:09 AM3/5/12
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to give a brief speech there. It's starting to hit closer ...
RichD
Mar 5, 2012, 3:15:25 PM3/5/12
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On Mar 3, "Dennis" <jon.do...@ithemorgue.com> wrote:
> I'm shopping at Fry's the other day, a sales girl approaches
> and asks,"Would you like to hear about our daily specials?"
> So I go, "No thanks."
> Then she exclaimed "Awesome!" And skipped off in
> search of other prey.
>
> For some reason, I find this incident deeply significant -
> I'm shopping at Fry's the other day, a sales girl approaches
> and asks,"Would you like to hear about our daily specials?"
> So I go, "No thanks."
> Then she exclaimed "Awesome!" And skipped off in
> search of other prey.
>
> For some reason, I find this incident deeply significant -
> =============================
>
> Walking in the local mall last week, girl in gym gear walks up
> and says "are you interested in a great new gym membership deal"?
> I looked at my guts and said "do I look like I'm interested
> in a great new membership deal?"
> She wet herself laughing.
There's a local shopping mall, with a health spa
>
> Walking in the local mall last week, girl in gym gear walks up
> and says "are you interested in a great new gym membership deal"?
> I looked at my guts and said "do I look like I'm interested
> in a great new membership deal?"
> She wet herself laughing.
on the second floor. Patrons ride the escalator
to work out on the Stairmasters -
--
Rich
Joerg
Mar 5, 2012, 8:34:04 PM3/5/12
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Jamie wrote:
> Joerg wrote:
>
>> RichD wrote:
>>
>>> I'm shopping at Fry's the other day, a sales girl approaches
>>> and asks,"Would you like to hear about our daily specials?"
>>> So I go, "No thanks."
>>> Then she exclaimed "Awesome!" And skipped off in
>>> search of other prey.
>>>
>>> For some reason, I find this incident deeply significant -
>>>
>>
>>
>> That probably means she didn't like you :-)
>>
>> I just had a shocker of another kind. Got a roofing quote via fax. The
>> very same one we had accepted many years ago and where the roofer did a
>> fine job. So I wanted to call them to tell them that their computer is
>> sending "ghosts from the past". Number disconnected. Went on the web.
>> What I found was an obituary. He was two years younger than me, still
>> can't believe it :-(
>>
>
> If your fax machine is like many other larger units. It saves in memory
> up until it gets full, prior scans.
>
That's just the puzzler. The roof was done many years ago. Recently I
> Joerg wrote:
>
>> RichD wrote:
>>
>>> I'm shopping at Fry's the other day, a sales girl approaches
>>> and asks,"Would you like to hear about our daily specials?"
>>> So I go, "No thanks."
>>> Then she exclaimed "Awesome!" And skipped off in
>>> search of other prey.
>>>
>>> For some reason, I find this incident deeply significant -
>>>
>>
>>
>> That probably means she didn't like you :-)
>>
>> I just had a shocker of another kind. Got a roofing quote via fax. The
>> very same one we had accepted many years ago and where the roofer did a
>> fine job. So I wanted to call them to tell them that their computer is
>> sending "ghosts from the past". Number disconnected. Went on the web.
>> What I found was an obituary. He was two years younger than me, still
>> can't believe it :-(
>>
>
> If your fax machine is like many other larger units. It saves in memory
> up until it gets full, prior scans.
>
renovated the offices and moved myself one office down the hallway. That
jinxed the printer/scanner/fax machine. It refused to do anything. So I
took it apart and as a last resort removed the backup battery and
shorted the rail at the RAM. Since I was busy schlepping lab gear it sat
there all day. Then I reassembled it and it started like new. So there
couldn't possibly be anything in RAM.
> His ghost must of hit the print button for you :)
>
earth. I'll make a note and ask him but I won't be able to report back
here :-)
> Don't feel strange about it , I've had two family members that were
> close to me pass away over the years, my grandmother and just recently
> my mother. In both cases, strange events, but in both cases, I was able
> to piece it together and understand it.
>
> We live in a strange universe. I just think of it as waking up from a
> sleep when people pass away. What the living is experiencing are the
> dead, which actually just woke up, letting their friends know they are
> off to work for the day. Day being a long time or what time is there.
>
> What a concept, but I'll stick to that for now. :)
>
> Now if I could take my earnings with me, I'd be living a little
> differently.
>
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