Crabbeaux's Fast Complaints Department (Caps tolerated)

[beagle]

Laddie, yer've got it upside down! The gods are the ones playin' the game! If yer gets involved wi' 'em, yer jist wun o' th' pieces!

Think you're on to something there. That Greek idea that the gods slouch around Olympus playing with human lives for fun has always struck me as a more accurate looking model than anything the Abrahamic religions have come up with.

Perhaps the heat exchanger curse is left over vengeance from the Prometheus business.

[anthrobabe]

A-babe, honey you love your daughters... both of them

I most certainly do--- but sometimes-- o I tell ya.

[Griffin NoName]

A strange curse has been visited upon me. I was definitely overdue divine retribution in some form or other, but the exact nature of it has taken me by surprise.

It seems I break heat exchangers.  My car coolant has gradually been going down for months, despite changing the radiator. Now my boiler matrix is breaking down and leaking too, and we're talking £1500 (US$2250) to replace it (with an evil new condensing boiler featuring computers and software and other dangerous stuff computer programmers like me don't believe in).

Am I wasting my time suspecting and changing boilers, heater matrixes, core plugs and head gaskets? Is the real problem bad karma, not bad engineering?
How big a sacrifice is it going to take (given my atheist track record) to get the gods back on side?

There you go, barking up the wrong tree. Ye Gods! You've just been hit by the God of Credit Crunch. No coolant and a broken boiler ?  Go live in your nice over-heated car. Much cheaper all round.

[beagle]

May come to that. Latest estimate around £2500 (~US$4000).

Freeze or starve?  Doesn't feel like a good time to be spending that much.

[DaveL]

I though you meant Cap's tolerated. That'll be the day 
Sorry wrong forum.

[Opsa]

You're more than just tolerated, Cap'n... you're treasured! 

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

All right, so I had to may up the one yoga class I missed. I call the place, listen to their stupid voice message detailing how to get there, how to spell the name of the street it's one, yadda yadda yadda.
He said class was at 5pm.
It turns out he had swapped the message over early, and it didn't start AT 5pm until three weeks from now. I wasn't about to drive all the way home again, so I spent half an hour in the cold, cold COLD _{It's not supposed to GET THAT COLD here! Where are my sunny beaches?} in my car.

[Sibling Chatty]

It's HOT, then it SNOWS, then it's hot, then it's cold, then it's hotter'n HELL, and soon it is to be COLD again.

WHASSUP wif dat??

I'ma move to Puerto Rico, where it's 70-80 degrees, get me a 'lectric fan and STAY there.

Temps projected for Sunday AM? 20F. Dat iz BELOW freezin'. I DO NOT do below freezinz.

wharz mai blankie??

[anthrobabe]

It's HOT, then it SNOWS, then it's hot, then it's cold, then it's hotter'n HELL, and soon it is to be COLD again.

WHASSUP wif dat??

I'ma move to Puerto Rico, where it's 70-80 degrees, get me a 'lectric fan and STAY there.

Temps projected for Sunday AM? 20F. Dat iz BELOW freezin'. I DO NOT do below freezinz.

wharz mai blankie??

The entire state of Texas is having hot flashes-- hot,cold,hot,cold,

etcetera
and snow in Vegas

[Pachyderm]

real snow, fake snow or the "snow" that you stick up a nostril?

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

real snow, fake snow or the "snow" that you stick up a nostril?

All of the above (it IS Vegas).
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Work sucks. Labor cutbacks means nothing gets done and I was the only one on the floor for half an hour ---> NOT ok, NOT safe. The other girl was kind enough to stay (after she clocked off) and help me with the rush that came in. It used to be "Time worked, time paid."
Not the case anymore, clearly, because there's no other option. You can't have more than four, maybe five people come through and not need two people if speed is to be achieved.
Which they want, and the maintenance of store cleanliness, good service, FAST service, and they want you out on time. This will not work.
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I really need to get on that job search, because this is not ok.