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Reality TVClubHouse Discussions: General Discussions ARCHIVES: May 2010 ~ August 2010: Free Expressions: The return of The Return of the Gripe Thread: Archive through June 15, 2010 users admin

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Hermione69
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07-23-2002

Friday, June 11, 2010 - 11:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hermione69 a private message Print Post    
Dfennessey, everyone I know who has taken a cruise to Alaska has loved it. :-)

We're taking the train all the way from Virginia to Seattle. Then on the way back we are renting a car and traveling from Seattle to St. Paul and then taking the train again from St. Paul back to Virginia. I'll have to doublecheck our itinerary while we are driving and see if we are coming through Colorado. It would be great to meet you, Who!

I'm definitely going to have to pack for cold weather!

I think I am having too much fun for the gripe thread. Maybe I better vamoose before I am banned.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Friday, June 11, 2010 - 12:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
Sia, I'm pretty sure "pet spas" are mostly intended for the canine pets. I don't know anyone who would bring a cat into one, and when I worked with a local one (designing their logo), it was all about dogs. Just sayin'... :-)

It's currently 63 degrees here, windy, cloudy, cold. I'm so completely over this stuff it's not even funny.

I'm wearing flannel jammies, a cammie, sox, and a long sleeved thermal shirt. And the thermostat is at 75 and I'm STILL cold!

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Friday, June 11, 2010 - 5:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
I love that its colder than normal!! Less on electric bill! and the heat makes my fibro way worse.

Were having Dylan's Grad party tomrow so I am hoping it stays june gloom!

Texasdeb
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05-23-2003

Friday, June 11, 2010 - 5:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texasdeb a private message Print Post    
I want some "Junevember" here! I love the temps you folks are talking about. I'm in Abilene, TX and thats a 90's place right now with a little over 100's thrown in. I suffer in the summer! It's just going to get worse. I live only a 8 min. drive from my office, but yet I still find myself having to pull over & hurl on the way home from work at least once a wk. It's all about the heat - I just get physically ill when I get hot - anybody else have that prob.?

Sia
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03-10-2002

Friday, June 11, 2010 - 5:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sia a private message Print Post    
Costa, I'm sure you're right about the pet spa being intended for the canines. I don't have a dog that I'd allow to travel in my car, however. I'm all about my cats, and I figured it was worth a try. To bathe a cat in my kitchen sink is a major event, and it takes a lot of preparation; it was easier to do it at the spa. Next time I need to remember to put a collar on the selected kitty so I can clip him to the stand. That way I can use both hands to suds him up. At home my daughter helps me bathe kitties in the sink, and we get along fine if we work together. Most of my cats don't mind getting a bath, actually. Liz, who lived to be 20, took a bath in the tub with me--when I was younger and able to get up from the tub floor; now I'm old and need a shower chair.

Christy358
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07-10-2007

Friday, June 11, 2010 - 8:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Christy358 a private message Print Post    
Texasdeb, I have heat issues too..... I find that drinking icewater during the car ride helps.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Saturday, June 12, 2010 - 12:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
I dunno Sia. I think it's different to bathe a cat at home than to take the cat out in a carrier, and a car ride, to a strange place. I'm sure it's a pain to bathe your cat at home, but I I'm sure it's easier on the cat. (When it comes to my cats, I'm all about THEIR comfort, not mine. It's why I pay for a pet sitter, rather than boarding them somewhere, when I travel monthly.)

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Saturday, June 12, 2010 - 12:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Goddessatlaw a private message Print Post    
We bathe our six pound kitty every week or 10 days, and it helps TREMENDOUSLY to have four hands - I do the sudsing and Colossus does the dousing with pitchers of warm water. She can be done in five minutes, and since she's used to a routine that goes very quickly she doesn't fight as much as she used to. I only bathe the other cats VERY occasionally when they've done something to really muck up their fur, so a) they hate it and b) they fight like hell because c) they have no idea when it's going to end. Our veterinarian has a pet hotel that does grooming, and we could take the cats there to be bathed but it's too traumatic for them. At least at home they calm down as soon as they escape from the sink. They're comfortable while they proceed to hate your guts for the next couple of days LOL.

Southern_grits
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10-08-2009

Saturday, June 12, 2010 - 1:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Southern_grits a private message Print Post    
I can't remember where I heard this but I use this method with a satisfactory amount of success. Put a piece of window screening in the bottom of the tub or sink. Kitty's claws get stuck in it and you don't have to make a trip to the ER for a pint of blood after. It doesn't stress my Miss Kitty out either, I just get those go-to-hell looks.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Saturday, June 12, 2010 - 1:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
LOL GAL!!! Costa and Kassie have each had one bath each while they've been with me. Costa came home straight from the shelter (in a cardboard carrier) and directly into the sink for a bath. I don't think he knew what hit him, poor man. Kassie came to me with fleas, so she had a bath (with baby shampoo) first thing. Since then, neither cat has needed a bath, thank goodness.

I will remember that window screen trick, SG, should the no bath rule at my place every change!

Happymom
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01-20-2003

Saturday, June 12, 2010 - 3:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Happymom a private message Print Post    
My boys have been here for 2 yrs. + and we've never bathed them. They are indoor cats though. I have had to use a baby wipe on their paws or rear occasionally. If I can't clean it, that fur gets cut off.

We rarely bathed our other 2 cats that we had for 19 years. We had a fenced yard in San Diego their first summer and would take them out for supervised play. They got fleas and required baths. I have never felt so uncomfortable in my life than when they were shampooed and swaddled (to give the shampoo a chance to kill the fleas) and the way they would STARE at my eyes....shudder...

One swiped me right across the cheek once after staring at me ... that was a bath not associated with fleas, so, there was no restraining paws by swaddling. I actually felt so bad for her that she was so upset that she had to swipe at me. I had one thin long bleeding line right across my right cheek.

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Saturday, June 12, 2010 - 8:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
My two are 15 years old and have never had a bath! It is tramatic going to the vet I can't imagine how they would react to a bath.

They are indoor kitties and have never had fleas, but the most I would ever do to them is wipe them done with a washcloth.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Sunday, June 13, 2010 - 5:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
I think the card signing issue and inviting someone to a party just to get a gift are two very different issues.

Holly
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07-22-2001

Sunday, June 13, 2010 - 10:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Holly a private message Print Post    
Costa, I'm envious of your cool weather. I'm dying here--between 93 and 95 each day, with a heat index usually in the low-mid l00's. My A/C is running non-stop.

And we had a record breaking extremely cold winter too. I've never lived through anything like the extremes in weather we're having this year.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Sunday, June 13, 2010 - 4:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
We had SUNSHINE today!! It still wasn't 75 degrees out (heck, it wasn't even 70!) but WE HAD SUN!! Whoo hoo!

Yeah, the extremes are weird this year. We had slightly above normal rainfalls, months of below normal temps, no real spring to speak of (and usually we enjoy March and April, cuz they lead in to May Gray and June Gloom).

On the plus side, I can quit griping about that cold I got. I napped lots this weekend and am finally feeling human again!

Whoami
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08-03-2001

Sunday, June 13, 2010 - 4:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    
I mentioned in the weather thread how we got your weather here these last few days (we can almost always count on getting your weather a couple of days later).

Alternating between drizzling to pounding rain. It was down as low as 49 degrees this morning. Our house got down to 60 and I had to put the furnace back on.

At least its up to 56 outside now, and mid sixties in the house.

Last couple of days we've had flood warnings/watches as well as tornado warnings/watches too. Hail, thunderstorms and all kinds of crazy weather.

And true to form, its due to be back in the 80's by Tuesday!

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Sunday, June 13, 2010 - 5:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
Which is when you'll be getting our "nice" weather! We are supposed to be nice thru Monday, and Tuesday it'll revert back to June Gloom... :-)

Texasdeb
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05-23-2003

Sunday, June 13, 2010 - 5:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texasdeb a private message Print Post    
I don't work wk-ends (normally). So - when I have my wk-end start on Fri. eve - I stay up as late as I can & get laundry done or whatever I can do. I do Nothing on Sat., and again Nothing on Sun. until about 5:00 pm - I get up, take my shower, get things rocking for next wk's work wk & go from there. I hate hot weather & will work around it when I'm on my "own" time. I can not control that my office takes so much extra out of me now - (I've got that "slave driver" boss and all - I've actually gripped about him b/4 in this thread) - It works for me. I could not do what I do if I still had little folks around - that's why God intends to give us our babies when we're young. I did it 3 times: @ 2 months b/4 I turned 18, @ 21, and again @ 28.

Natural energy levels decline w/age - I am glad that at my age I'm not raising children on top of my career & personal life.

High "5" out there to my TVCH friends that are in my age bracket & still raising children - WOW!

Sia
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03-10-2002

Monday, June 14, 2010 - 9:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sia a private message Print Post    
I was so shocked when I found out I was pregnant at age 35 1/2. I was never married until two weeks after my 35th birthday, and DH and I agreed not to have any children together. He was 39! Our son was born two months after my 36th birthday and our daughter three months after I turned 38. They're going on 14 and 12 now, and I'll be 49 next month. I am worn out, broken down, tired and ruined, physically, emotionally and mentally. I have always said that God gives women menopause because there's an age past which you just can't run after children. That just keeps us from giving birth to more babies past a certain age, but menopause hasn't slowed down my 73-yo mother, who can still keep up with my 7-yo and 5-yo niece and nephew! She has far more energy than I do. Wish I'd inherited more of her genes!!

Dfennessey
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07-25-2004

Tuesday, June 15, 2010 - 4:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dfennessey a private message Print Post    
but Sia I am sure your mother does not have to chase them 24/7

Pippin04
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10-26-2007

Tuesday, June 15, 2010 - 4:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pippin04 a private message Print Post    
OK so new gripe for me.

Background: I always pay my bills online for my personal account. I also pay my business credit cards online. Recently I added bell Canada to my business account as I was late paying the bill. In March I paid my business credit cards and accidently paid bell 15000. I could not figure out why the cc was not paid just thought it did not go through. In April I did it again, as I thought I did not pay the cc I paid 30000 again in error to bell.

A few days after paying I discover the error. I call the bank and they say you know the rule, you have 24 hrs to reverse a payment. I know this because I have made this error before but usually catch it.

So I call bell and they say refund cheque in 30 days. I take this as my punishment for being stupid. I wait 30 days and no cheque. I call again and they say deal with the bank. I explain that the bank said no already bell has to refund. I speak with a manager and they say I will have the money back in a week. Yesterday he calls back and says bell is keeping the money go back to the bank. So I have a 45000 credit and I spend maybe 100 a month. Now what do I do? I am thinking about going to the paper and letting them know about this. Also I have removed bell from the banking web site so it does not happpen again. I am so angry.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Tuesday, June 15, 2010 - 6:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
Pippin, in the past when I've overpaid Bell, they just credit it to my account. So from the looks of it, you won't owe Bell any more money for months, maybe even years!!!

Whoami
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08-03-2001

Tuesday, June 15, 2010 - 6:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    
Is there an alternative carrier you can threaten to go to? Like digital cable or something? Call Bell and tell them you are considering switching your account over, and need to know how you'd go about getting reimbursed for the unused amount of credit from them. Perhaps that would inspire them to give you back your cash in order to keep you.

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Tuesday, June 15, 2010 - 9:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
I think you need to escalate that as much as possible. It might be that it's something that has to go high up the customer support ranks because that's a lot of money to issue a check for.

I would call customer service and be very firm and polite and say you realise the mistake was yours, but they only person who can solve this now is them. They have $4500 of your money and you want it back, and you would like to speak to someone who can make that happen. If the person you're talking to can't make that happen then speak to their supervisor, and so on as far as you can go. Take the names and id numbers of the people you speak to and document it.

If you get to a dead end, say you will speak to your lawyers, even if you don't have any, and ask for the address of head office so that you can use it to send in your complaint. Say you will have to assess interest and bill them for that too if the matter isn't addressed in a timely manner.

Then put everything in a letter and send it to their head office, copied to any customer service department, and perhaps a local official if you have anything like that. Include any previous promises from then, like the promise of the check in 30 days.

Also see if there's a local tv station that deals with consumer problems, call them.

It's stupid for them to say ask your bank - Bell clearly have your money or it wouldn't show as a credit on your account, and there's no way your bank would be able to just pull the money back into your bank account!

Karen
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09-06-2004

Tuesday, June 15, 2010 - 9:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karen a private message Print Post    
I'm just making sure we're all using the correct amount of zeroes here. We're talking about a 45 thousand dollar overpayment, correct? There's no way you should be forced to accept a credit for that. No bloody way. Take it up the ranks at Bell - as someone said, there are probably a number of hoops and signatures needed for a refund that large. If they refuse to budge, then go public. Our TV station has a consumer reporter. Most news stations do. One tiny bit of PR and they'll turn that around for you in no time.