{"id":1283,"date":"2006-12-31T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-01T00:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beltdrivebetty.com\/wyzwmnsworld\/?p=1283"},"modified":"2010-09-29T18:29:08","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T01:29:08","slug":"bless-us-every-one-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/?p=1283","title":{"rendered":"Bless us every one!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">so<br \/>the holiday season<br \/>in a nutshell&#8230;&#8230;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><br \/>we went up to my bother&#8217;s house<br \/>to visit with him and the kids<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">as usual <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">the bother and the VOD <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">drank their way thru the festive season<\/p>\n<p>the bother has a new lady friend<br \/>he&#8217;s besotted (thinkin with the little head)<br \/>but he won&#8217;t tell his kids<br \/>so they are texting each other on an average of 40 msgs an hour<br \/>what makes them think the kids don&#8217;t know?<\/p>\n<p>and what a lovely way to spend Christmas dinner<br \/>after cooking all day long<br \/>sitting at a table with the VOD and her tumbler of BINGO!<br \/>and the top of the bother&#8217;s head cos he&#8217;s looking at his phone<br \/>alla time<\/p>\n<p>the good news is that the farther was in too much pain<br \/>to be much of a pain<br \/>he&#8217;s got a major sciatica thing going on<br \/>so he can&#8217;t drink much<br \/>they have him on muscle relaxants and painkillers<br \/>so he&#8217;s hammered anyway<br \/>but pleasantly hammered!<\/p>\n<p>so there were no major fights in my festive season this year<br \/>quelle suprise?<\/p>\n<p>the high point of Christmas day was the Bother and the VOD<br \/>giving me a card with a picture of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creative.com\/products\/product.asp?category=213&#038;subcategory=214&amp;product=14331\">Zen Creative Vision M<\/a><br \/>30 gb mp3 player that they were gonna purchase at the boxing day sale<br \/>(cos it was 70.00 off)<br \/>so we got it on boxing day<br \/>and I&#8217;m stoked cos the nephew has one<br \/>and it holds like mega music n vids n pix n stuff<br \/>but I decide to wait till I get home to fire it up<\/p>\n<p>the last night in camp the VOD got tiddly again<br \/>and she went to bed at the same time as the bother did<br \/>(cos he had to work in the morning)<br \/>and he comes out about half an hour later and says:<br \/>&#8220;do you suppose that it&#8217;s significant that the VOD is laying in bed<br \/>singing Amazing Grace to herself?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">what a laugh!<\/p>\n<p>the drive home was relatively uneventful<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">and as soon as we got home<br \/>I plugged in the Vision M to charge the battery<br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">it don&#8217;t work<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">so I spent about 9 hours yesterday fiddling with it<br \/>and finally discover that<br \/>according to some Zen Creative forums<br \/>there&#8217;s a problem between the Vision M and some versions of XP<br \/>WHY DO YA SUPPOSE THEY DON&#8217;T TELL YA THAT WHEN YOU BUY THEM???<br \/>ok<br \/>I feel better now :0)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><br \/>so this morning<br \/>I go out for coffee with my club<br \/>and then head over to the electronics store to exchange it<br \/>(just on the off chance that it was that particular player)<br \/>whereby I come across the most<br \/>derisive young woman<br \/>I have ever had the displeasure of speaking to<br \/>in the &#8220;electronics store&#8221; Customer Service Dept.<br \/>our little tete e tete resulted in my finally requesting my money back<br \/>and that she take a long look at her career path going forward&#8230;.<br \/>if ya get my drift?<\/p>\n<p>WW: I&#8217;d like to exchange this mp3 player<br \/>Her: uhhhmmm why?<br \/>WW: it won&#8217;t connect with my computer<br \/>Her: uhhhmmm why?<br \/>WW: seems that the usb cord doesn&#8217;t connect with my usb ports but everything else I plug into them works fine<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">Her: well I didn&#8217;t ask for your life story<br \/>WW: seeing as you haven&#8217;t offered&#8230;do you have anymore so that I could get an exchange?<br \/>Her: (looking around to see if anyone can hear her besides me) nope<br \/>WW: can ya look?<br \/>Her: don&#8217;t have to &#8211; I know that we ain&#8217;t got none<br \/>WW: may I have my money back please<br \/>Her: well uhhhhhmmm ok&#8230;.but I don&#8217;t know how to do that?<br \/>WW: can I speak to the manager please?<br \/>Her: No &#8211; you don&#8217;t need to<br \/>WW: (getting louder) I didn&#8217;t ask if you I needed to I said I wanted to<br \/>Her: Well there&#8217;s no need to get snippy!<br \/>WW: (deep breaths)Get me the manager now!<br \/>Him: what can I do for you today?<br \/>WW: without a long drawn out explanation &#8211; I want my money back because you don&#8217;t have any more Vision M&#8217;s to exchange with<br \/>Him: then why did you want to see me?<br \/>WW: because I wasn&#8217;t getting any customer service from your customer service rep<br \/>Him: ya well Tuesday is her last day so she&#8217;s not so invested<br \/>WW: ya well neither am I &#8211; GIVE ME MY MONEY<br \/>Him: well ya don&#8217;t have to get snippy!<\/p>\n<p>I get my money &#8211; and enough paperwork to paper the bathroom walls and just for shits n giggles I go over to the audio dept to see what the price is of a different model same size &#8211; and low and behold there 9 of the damn things in the display case<br \/>Fuck Me!<\/p>\n<p>I drove down the road to another electronic shop and got one there!<br \/>so wish me luck!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>sothe holiday seasonin a nutshell&#8230;&#8230;we went up to my bother&#8217;s houseto visit with him and the kidsas usual the bother and the VOD drank their way thru the festive season the bother has a new lady friendhe&#8217;s besotted (thinkin with &hellip; 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