More Random Musings
Oct 13th, 2009 by Kirsten
Posting from: Missoula, MT
Every once in a while I have to do a data dump to clear out some of the clutter in my mind that I don’t want to forget but can’t do anything with at the moment or stuff I want to forget but which continues to bother me until I do something with it. I’ve been feeling very cluttered lately.
1. No, little girl at Target, neither your little brother nor your dog needs a hot dog costume for Halloween. That’s not funny. It’s cruel.
2. Attention all shoppers: do not get to the front of the line at the cash register and then expect to hold everyone up while you go shop some more for that thing you forgot. Put your shit back in your cart, take it with you, and go finish your shopping.
3. I am astonished and confused by this. However, I actually have something good to say about a credit card company. My credit card company (correctly for a change!) noticed fraudulent activity on my card this week and put a hold on it. The credit card thief charged less than $15 worth of stuff before the hold was put on the card, and I am not being held responsible for the charges.
4. Tucson Water, on the other hand, you are apparently a bunch of incompetent morons. I will not get into details right now, but may the fleas of 1000 camels eternally infest the armpits of all of you who I have dealt with in the last two months since I sold my house.
5. That coffee hut across the street from the gas station at the St. Regis exit in Montana? Don’t get espresso there. It is not good.
6. Pluto IS a planet.
When my credit card number got stolen last year, before the thieves tried a big purchase (two Dell computers), they made a small $9 donation to some non-profit I’d never heard of. I gather that this is a routine tactic to check if the card is still valid….presumably because this won’t trip the fraud detector. It sounds like the fraud detection software has been improved.
Whoever stole mine made a 20 cent donation to the American Foundation for the Blind and then an Amazon.com purchase for something like $13 and change. That’s all they managed before the hold was put on it. Since I occasionally buy stuff from Amazon.com, I would imagine that donation was the trigger.
5. Why were you getting coffee in St Regis? Java On Sherman’s only like an hour away…
6. Yes. Yes it is.
5a. I really wanted coffee.
5b. I was curious if it was any good.
5c. I had to meet someone in Spokane and I didn’t have time to go all the way into town to get coffee at Java on Sherman beforehand.
Fortunately, she brought up Java on Sherman herself and we went afterward.