COW* Talk Time
Well, it's that time again. Time to clear out some crankiness. There are just a few things irritating the heck out of me these days.
Let's start with Pearle Vision. When I was in Richmond, the frame of my glasses broke. Sidepiece just snapped. Didn't think they could be put back together, but put them away and bought a pair of drugstore glasses to tide me over. On my return, I took them back to where I'd bought them in February of 2009. Turns out the warranty was for one year. One year for a frame that cost $160. For the frames alone. The clerk most affably extended the warranty and it turns out that the warranty is good for half the cost of the defective goods. So I picked out new frames of a more traditional type that won't snap and forked over my $80. Pearle will cover the replacement lenses and the other half of the frame. But still. I think this is just outrageous.
Not outrageous, but annoying is the phenomenon of some bloggers now including advertisements on their blogs. It's not enough that we visit their blogs? That we admire their quilts? That we link them on our blogs?That we buy the books they have written? Is that not enough? Apparently not. Now we have to see ads for Werther's candy and other random stuff when we go to see what kind of quilt the blogger has in the works. Slows down the loading of the page, too. Sheesh. I mean, really!
Have saved the worst for last, and I'm dead serious about this one [you should pardon the pun]. Someone whom I've just "unfriended" on Facebook posted this as her status:
Sharlene likes DEAR LORD, THIS YEAR YOU TOOK MY FAVORITE ACTOR, PATRICK SWAYZIE. YOU TOOK MY FAVORITE ACTRESS, FARAH FAWCETT. YOU TOOK MY FAVORITE SINGER, MICHAEL JACKSON. I JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW, MY FAVORITE PRESIDENT IS BARACK OBAMA. AMEN.
This person is advocating prayers that the President of the United States will die. Sorry, friends, but I cannot take this lightly even if it was meant as some sort of a terrible "joke," spelling errors aside. The past year and a half have brought about an enormous decrease in civility in our country and I wonder where, when, and how it will stop. And just for the record, Sharlene is not an angry twelve-year-old. She's a woman in her early sixties who, last I knew, was a teacher in a Catholic school!
Okay. Feeling some relief at having gotten these complaints off my chest. Back to Business As Usual.
*Cranky Old Woman, Near Philadelphia
Comments
I agree with you about the ads. My other pet peeve is that when using a reader Like Google Reader, some people have set up their blogs so that you have to click through to read the entire blog. What's up with that?
And whether you like someone or whether you disagree with them, it is hateful and disrespectful at the least, to wish them dead.
Oh look, I'm MOOOOOing, I'm a regular *COW* speaker..*sigh*.
LOLOL...and the word verification below? nanni hahahaha
As to your peeves, I don't blame you one bit.
Where I go for my glasses, the new frames are warrantied for a year. But I don't buy those expensive frames. I buy the ones he has in another show case that are just slightly out of date and there is no warranty and they are very cheap in comparison. When I consider how tiny the metal is on the sides and around the glass, I'm amazed at the stress they take from daily use.
Second: I do sooo agree with todays posts!!There are some fav blogs of mine that i do NOT visit anymore because of the adds. Hate those!!!
I'm a Pearl costumer too so got that one too and last but not least: wishing someone dead never ever is a joke and especially a US president. People should now better.
Long comment but thank you for being a cow :)
The FB comment is so sad.
and I know a few people have offered on there blog to do paid advertising....not welcome here.........
When will civility come back? I believe that the more people use the Internet as a means of communication that interpersonal skills don't get developed and, as a result, rude and disrespectful behavior takes over. I dealt with this on our church council. Folks wrote e-mails to one another with content that they never would have used in a face to face meeting, I was shocked, but I guess I shouldn't have been. They acted as though the rules for manners and decorum didn't apply to cyber-communication. Sad!
I am in agreement on all you said. But I did purchase some amazing frames, the bendy kind. I love them.
Sorry for your "down" day, but it is GOOD to vent.
I learned some things today from your post.
hugs
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Not funny, not humorous, not remotely intelligent.
On a different note: I AM planning to put an ad on my blog, however. It will be for when Nancy goes into business selling official COW shirts.
fb has become a place of odd feelings lately. and yes grown women act a bit ridiculous on there, so do young women and of course all sorts of men....
moo on!!
Thanks for speaking up.
ttfn :) Yuki Nakamoto