The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

Post Reply New Topic

The sequel:

When we got the two UPS boxes I emailed UPS national to tell them to let their local person know the boxes had arrived. Monday night.

Tuesday morning in the weeeee hours I got confirmation they'd gotten the message.

Sometime yesterday a woman from UPS called and left voicemail to verify the local office had gotten the message.

Yesterday afternoon I got a voicemail from UPS that said that the driver had gone back out to where he left them, but could not recover them because nobody was home (surprise, surprise!! !).

It's now Wednesday. I've just gotten a voicemail from someone at UPS letting me know they still have not been able to recover my packages, but would try again this afternoon.

I'm not going to even bother to respond to it.

I still have to drop the "return" box off at some UPS store, somewhere in town. I can hardly wait.

ok. my final rant for the week, having just been on a bus that was so full it literally could not pack anyone else in (we just needed the chickens to look like something out of the third world), a trolley in the same shape, and a 2 hr 15 minute commute home in the rain (well, it wasn't raining inside the bus or the trolley....)

Hang-ups on my answering machine. I screen all my calls. We get a call at least daily. One time recently I got one at 4:30 in the freaking morning - that one I did answer, assuming a friend was in trouble or something. Line was dead when I picked it up. So I've put a trace on my line (which you can do when your service is through your cable provider - it's free, even). And I got the number of whomever called today. Dunno if that's who's always been calling, but I'll know tomorrow if that number shows up again.

800-947-9541

Tried all the reverse-lookup stuff on the net, get nowhere. I did leave a posting on a website that reported this number as making hang-up calls. Anybody know where else to reverse look-em-up? I used all the services I found on the first page of Google "reverse lookup".

Hell no, I'm not going to call it.

Wouldn't help to call it anyway, apparently - I plugged the number itself into Google, and the first hit I got was a website for reporting bad 800 numbers. The two posters who'd gotten hangup calls from it said they couldn't call it back, either.

It's probably just some dumb telemarketer from out of the country, hence the 4:30 am call. They are probably using one of those automatic dialers that hang up on you if you are not "lucky" enough to have answered in time for their spiel.

Nan, that sounds like the calls I was getting a while back.

When I checked up on what number was calling, it gave 0000000000000. Not spectacularly difficult for the telephone company to block, surely!

I complained to the operator, and wouldn't let them off the line until they explained everything.

Anyway, over here, there are two free services that will, between them, pretty effectively block these calls. (I already had one "enabled", but I was told I had to "renew" them each year - which strikes me as idiocy.)

And, the other bit of information I squeezed out of my operator: what the automated systems do is to pre-dial numbers, BEFORE there is a telemarketer available to talk to you. When you pick up the phone, if there still isn't one ready, the line gets dropped.

I.e. Hartz, if you pick up the phone quickly, you are MORE likely to be lucky, and AVOID listening to their spiel.

I couldn't resist "stealing" this link off deathchibi...



And some more...

I like those pics lau... This is one of my favorites:

http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc63 ... 6/bf09.jpg

Looking for a picture of my favorite sign and decided to post a pic of me...not a great one, but hard to find one of me smiling.

Can't find the sign but it was two signs on one post...

the first said ......Slow Children
underneath is said...No Hunting

I'm only fifteen and I feel creaky and ancheint.
D:

Is it a horribly unnatural thing to be having a mid teens crisis?

I feel so darn old.
Ironic, is it not?

Rainbow lurking:

lurking
lurking
lurking
lurking
lurking
lurking
lurking

Better? Really? Thank deities!

@_@;

I'm currently freaking out about being an adult.

At some point or anouther, it hits everyone in the face I'm sure.
That you only get 18 years to be a child.

Then, BAM!

Adult.

SCARY.