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Scooterrific
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07-08-2005

Wednesday, August 06, 2008 - 11:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Scooterrific a private message Print Post    
mine's 2003 and no smog yet!

Scooterrific
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07-08-2005

Wednesday, August 06, 2008 - 11:08 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Scooterrific a private message Print Post    
I think it's an 03???

Merrysea
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08-13-2004

Wednesday, August 06, 2008 - 11:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Merrysea a private message Print Post    
You'll probably get hit next year - mine's an '02.

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Wednesday, August 06, 2008 - 11:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
Oregon is every other year from the day the car is born.

Whoami
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08-03-2001

Friday, August 08, 2008 - 12:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    
!@#* Politics and their @!#$%&*&^$ advertising!

Got home from an evening out to see our answering machine blinking. Since I was out with sis, not too many options on who would be leaving a message, so its probably other sis. With her in my head, I play the message and hear a woman's serious sounding voice say, "This is an urgent message from....." In that split second I'm thinking oh great, Cindy's had another accident of some sort (she's the one who fell off her horse and had a brain injury two years ago). My heart leaps into my throat and I start to panic. The message continues...."Marilyn Musgrave...." I start seeing red.

What a cheap and dirty way to attract attention. Frankly though. It didn't work. It pissed me off so bad I stopped the message and deleted it. So whatever issue she thought worth leaving on my phone didn't get heard.

I'm exhausted and bone tired, and wouldn't write very coherently. But she's getting an e-mail ear full tomorrow. I never much cared for her anyway cause of her advertising. Now, I'm pretty sure she's never gonna get a vote from me.

I need to figure out how to get off her phone list. Cause it ain't gonna be pretty if I get another phone call from her and I end up answering the phone.

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Friday, August 08, 2008 - 9:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
Who, we got one of those calls last night. Boy, does that piss me off!

Denecee
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09-05-2002

Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 12:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Denecee a private message Print Post    
Ophiliasgrandma, I am in Oregon too and have never had an emissions test. I wonder if that is a county or city thing?

Jewels
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09-23-2000

Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 3:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jewels a private message Print Post    
Denecee, you haven't had to ever take your car to DEQ? We do everytime we get new tags on our cars. I know growing up on the coast we didn't have to, but anywhere else in Oregon I've lived we have.

Naja
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06-28-2003

Wednesday, August 13, 2008 - 11:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
Well, the new printer I ordered showed up DOA. After 45 minutes on the phone with support, they are replacing it. It will be here in 3-5 days.

The (not so) funny part is that they sent me an email with all the info about the return and it says "Please print for your records"

Rissa
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03-20-2006

Wednesday, August 13, 2008 - 12:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rissa a private message Print Post    
I don't know Naja, the irony makes me RFLMAO!!

Denecee
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09-05-2002

Wednesday, August 13, 2008 - 2:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Denecee a private message Print Post    
Jewels, nope. I have been living in Albany for the last 25 yrs and don't even know where the nearest DEQ is.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, August 13, 2008 - 4:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
LOL, Naja, the irony is kinda funny (though I understand not for you!)

Naja
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06-28-2003

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I guess it is kinda funny...LOL It's a little like when we lost cable internet for about 3 days over the winter, and when you would call the comcast office to complain, first you would get a recording telling you to try support at the comcast website at www...

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, August 13, 2008 - 5:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Heh, Naja, ever so often we have problems with verizon dsl and have to call tech and they always tell you to save time go online!

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Wednesday, August 13, 2008 - 5:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
Same here with our provider. It drives me crazy when they do that!

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Wednesday, August 13, 2008 - 5:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Time Warner does the same thing.. you are on the phone BECAUSE you cannot get online and they are cheerily telling you to go online or call back when it is less busy.. riiiight.

Whoami
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08-03-2001

Wednesday, August 13, 2008 - 6:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    
I hear ya Naja on the Comcast thing. When ours goes out, we lose it all, cable, internet and phone. So, I have to call them on my cell. One time, a CSR offered to put our number on call-forwarding to my cell, and she did so quite easily.

Two subsequent times when I called and asked them to do it, they got all befuddled and freaked out. After a huge hassle, the second girl finally figured it out.

The last guy was the worst. First he got very condescending and asked if I was near my computer. I told him no, cause I had to call from my cell as I had no phone service, and the cell only gets reception when I'm outside. Then he told me (again in a very condescending tone), that I could set up the call forwarding on the Internet. Again, I told him....how do I do that with NO PHONE, NO INTERNET and NO CABLE!!!! Once I finally got that through his thick brain, he told me they didn't have the available software installed on their end to set up my call forwarding for me. Oh really? Then how did the previous two CSR's do it for me? He just repeated that it couldn't be done from his end. Uh huh. OK.

So, lets make that a new gripe for the thread. CSR's who just assume the customer calling in is a brainless twit, and treat them as so.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Thursday, August 14, 2008 - 9:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
Well I am NOT a happy camper. Yesterday I had threading done on my upper-lip and NOW instead of my usual barely visible hair, I have an infestation of VERY visible pimples above and around the sides of my mouth! Oy!!!! It may take a bottle of concealer to hide this disaster. This is the 3rd time I've done it and it always happens cuz my skin is too sensitive, but this time is the worst. I've been drowning the nasty little buggers in rubbing alchol. I am not going to do this ever again, even if I grow a mustache to compete with DH's!!! LOL/Argh.

We should have a thread for medical/cosmetic disasters...

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Thursday, August 14, 2008 - 11:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
And since I'm in a grouchy mood... it just started thundering and lightening and heavy rain and I have to head out to work in that mess. Can't I just go back to bed and wake up another day when the stoopid rash on my face is gone and the weather is nicer???

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Thursday, August 14, 2008 - 11:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    

Okay, Ms. Grouchy is relinquishing this thread back to the rest of the Clubhouse grumps now that I've aired my crankiness. LOL.

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Thursday, August 14, 2008 - 2:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
Mame, last time I was waxed, I broke out and it was awful. I can sympathize, for sure! I wonder what caused it?

Serate
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08-21-2001

Thursday, August 14, 2008 - 6:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
Somebody please tell me what good is a DO NOT DISTURB sign at a hotel when housekeeping sees it and goes down the hall and immediately calls your room asking when you want your room serviced?

Biscottiii
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05-29-2004

Thursday, August 14, 2008 - 10:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Biscottiii a private message Print Post    
Serate, I will NEVER stay at the Ramada again, after that housekeeping maid terrorized me daily. If she wasn't calling she was having the Supv of Housekeeping calling to see when I would get out of the room, 2-3 calls a day to see when I would get out! I told them up front that I was on a week's vacation and just wanted to relax and read (paying about $125/day during off season). Sometimes I didn't want to leave until 4-5pm to get dinner, which of course was after the maids had gone home. Told them I didn't need towels daily, with 3 sets in the room.

In the end, I didn't leave a penny for a tip (usually tip fairly well) and wrote out a lengthy complaint to the hotel management but never heard further from them. Like I said, I will NEVER cross their doors again! What an awful vacation.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Friday, August 15, 2008 - 9:08 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
My children are sooooo lucky they have school today and didn't have to suffer through morning with ticked off mom.

Caleb's school hours changed this year from 7:30 to 8:30. I can not say how much I love this. I'm not a morning person so that extra hour to sleep is totally awesome. Now I roll out of bed at 7:45, hop in a quick shower, out the door by 8:10. It's wonderful!

This morning, Caleb was standing at the side of my bed, fully dressed, back pack on at 6:30am. "MOM! It's time to get up!" First thought....oh crap, clock must not have gone off, I'm late! Then I looked at the clock and told him to go away. He came back every freaking 10 minutes until 7:45. I was not happy. I got up and had a little chat with him about the fact that there is no reason at all he should be up early enough to be showered, dressed, fed, and ready to leave by 6:30 am when school doesn't start for another 2 hours. I'm all about being a few minutes early but that's ridiculous!

So, I got up, showered, dressed and was sitting there brushing my hair when Caleb comes around the corner to tell me Dakota gave Harvey a whole loaf of bread. HUH? She said she did not...she was giving him one piece to try to get him outside (argh, dogs are not allowed to have people food!!!!!!) when he snatched the bag from her. So then, she grabbed a full pack of lunch meat....anyone see where this is going??? to try to get the bread from him (second argh, dogs are not allowed to have people food but we do not try to take that food away once they have it!) when PJ snatched the lunch meat. I was just about to the point where all I could do was groan when they got to giggling about how the dogs had sandwiches for breakfast. Lecture #2 of the morning...first people food isn't all that great for dogs, second food is expensive these days and now you have no snack when you come home from school, third you don't ever, ever try to get food away from the dog, and fourth it's really not funny.

I think the real high point of the morning was, when almost to school, Caleb asked if I'd heard back from the guy about the guitar and I told him we were trying to set something up to meet this weekend. And he looked over at me and said, "well, lets not do that. After school we'll just go to the store and buy a new guitar." That child was so so very lucky I was pulling up to the school and he could get out of the car at that point.

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Friday, August 15, 2008 - 9:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
Oh War that would put me in a pretty bad mood for the rest of the day!!!

My dog would be in deep doo doo if they snatched food away from my kids. While I don't let my kids take food from the dogs, I wouldn't be letting my dog take food from my kids, and if they did, I sure wouldn't reward them by letting them keep it! They'd be sleeping outside for a while for that little stunt!