start a victory garden and ration your IRRATIONALLY ANGRY feelings, part 3

xxpost dude is a foot taller than me, and always pushes past to get in front of the pack, but then slows a bit to stay just at the speed where he's right in front of me, but passing him would take like three blocks.

i like to imagine that this guy is a massive passive smoking troll and gets off on this routine

taste my fumes non-smokers!

I mean I get it that he's been sitting on the train waiting for a chance to light up, probably feeling an itch in his lungs and throat, and when he reaches freedom and brings flame to face he gets that burst of energy that propels him forward. Then as the smoke fills him he begins to relax and slow his stride.

I also think that when I was younger I was around too many whiny baby boomer smokers who ranted about all the "politically correct" non-smokers telling them they couldn't smoke wherever the hell they wanted to. I'd say fuck them but they're likely all dead by now.

oh yeah i hated those people too.

there's plenty anger to go around

Still mind-boggling that people were once allowed to smoke on airplanes.

Not just that, but divided smoking/non-smoking sections. INSIDE A PRESSURIZED FUSELAGE.

And the seats STILL HAVE "ASHTRAYS" in the armrests.

I'm not sure this belongs here, but anyway. . .

I don't like carrying cash, so whenever I get some, I deposit it into my checking account. So, I did just that about two weeks ago. Now, I still have my money in a credit union back in Reno, so whenever I use the ATM to make a deposit, I can do so without fees at one of what they call the "Co-Op" ATMs at one of the credit unions down here. So, I deposited CASH into the ATM, it cleared (after all, why wouldn't it?), all was well. I go to check my account online just now to see where I'll be after I pay rent tomorrow and two weeks, to the day, after I made the deposit, the credit union where I made the deposit TOOK THE MONEY BACK OUT OF MY ACCOUNT. Under the description it says "Deposit correction." Called my bank and they can basically only see the same thing that I can, so they're just as confused. I was told I would be contacted by a "specialist" by the end of the business day today. But, seeing as we're coming up on 5pm, I doubt it very much.

That is fucking theft. Outright, by definition.

I've already filed a complaint with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

I'm going to go up in the bank tomorrow and demand my money back, on account of a "Fee correction" and see how well that goes.

Fuck these fucking banks.

You're definitely in the right.

But wouldn't there be a deposit box in the vicinity? The same type where small business owners are always getting robbed at five in the morning?

when you deposit cash into the atm sometimes it gets lost once it gets inside - is it one of those banks that makes you enter in the amount you're depositing first, or is it like BoA's where it can automatically detect the value of the bill you put in? If the former, and if the money somehow got jammed somewhere in the machine or lost, they probably assumed "lol dude chose $xxx deposit and didn't put anything in" and reversed it. not your fault of course. usually a phone call fixes it, some banks/C.U.s though actually check the security footage!

only outright theft that happened to me that I couldn't resolve was this asshole who shall remain nameless (Jon Finberg) who runs EntertheVault.com which sells concert tickets. I bought an Iced Earth ticket one night, and it was p stupid, you didn't get a ticket, you just got added to will call list. Ok, w/e.

Next day, I get a second confirmation via email, which I view as an error. But no, I see a different confirmation number and a second charge on my debit card. At the time of the supposed charge, I was at World of Beer watching football. So I contact them reporting the error expecting a correction.

Finberg tells me that actually, I did buy a second ticket! Uhm, no, I didn't - I bought one the day before on my phone, and at the time he claims I made the purchase, my phone was sitting unused on the bar table. Thought maybe it could have been an accidental resubmission of the order, but he himself said that was impossible, that I would have had to re-enter my info a second time. It's normal, he says, people buy tickets for friends all the time (but I didn't).

After the exchange (and his refusal to investigate), I initiated a chargeback with BoA and they gave me the money back....only to take it back out after the investigation was complete, as this asshole submitted them the alleged work order that my ticket order supposedly generated, and they said "welp this proves you bought it". I got ready to appeal it with BoA (considering the dude probably fabricated the form, it proved nothing), and when I wrote back to Finberg, he basically threatened me with legal action and I was going through mega-stress and said "this isn't worth it".

couldn't even sell the ticket because there was no ticket to sell! and non-transferrable too.

fuck that prick.

No, it just took the cash and counted it automatically. I knew I was in for a ride on the asshole train when my bank contacted me and told me that, in their investigation, the credit union claimed that the ATM only accepts deposits via envelope. Which is a straight up lie. When I called the credit union where the ATM is located, they were exceedingly rude and essentially hung up on me, right after saying, verbatim, "That's YOUR BANK'S PROBLEM, not ours!"

So, I filed the complaint with the CFPB and was advised to file a formal dispute with my credit union.

I feel like I should file a police report as well.

i woulda replied "the atm only accepts deposit via envelope....in 2017?"

i'm with jim here re: smoking. I'm not really a smoker myself, but have been in the past. One time while smoking in the city I heard a bicylist do an exagerrated cough. There really is a disdain for smoking in some circles, which tbh I don't get

I mean recently a dude dropped a shit around the corner of the liquor store in broad daylight. Seem like there's other battles

They just today banned smoking in "outdoor dining areas" in my city. Areas, mind you, that at least 60% of which only exist at all (rooftop bars etc) due to the initial indoor smoking ban a decade back. But nooooo. All these non smokers wanna sit out on the footpath in the choking passing smog making traffic so they can eat outside, but we cant smoke because reasons.

but we cant smoke because reasons.

because it's vile?

tbh i'm sick to death of having to eat indoors on sunny days because two smokers sit outside and ruin it for everyone else.

So tough AA, all those spaces been certainly designated for all those years. What's the maxim? Something about an inch and a yard.

I realize there's been a slurry of discussion re: words and their hurtfulness lately. But I do happen to remember someone recently requesting that the second definition on 'myopic' get jettisoned due to his eyesight. Seems shortsighted to me. But maybe don't call people and their addictions vile.

Or do, and realize that when you do: you sound like someone who should have a mop in one hand and a waving index finger sticking off the other

What's the maxim? Something about an inch and a yard.

smokers are certainly taking a yard when they spew arsenic all over the place

In open areas designed for them! I'm not talking about cafes/restaurants with nice outdoor patios, I'm talking about beer gardens in pubs. Smoking is no more offensive than screechy babies, trucks spewing diesel over the tables, or a guy with 20 tons of Lynx on.

Sorry, it gets on my goat how vicious some non smokers can be.

In open areas designed for them! I'm not talking about cafes/restaurants with nice outdoor patios, I'm talking about beer gardens in pubs.

ah sorry

or a guy with 20 tons of Lynx on.

their punishment is to be forever single imo

Yeah no I agree about smoking next to people eating. Thats vile. I'm a smoker and thats vile!

sorry i misunderstood you <3

yeah you'll keep mister ;P x

from app to app i can never work out which iphone mic to talk into. shits me to fucking tears.

The only designated smoking areas should be air-conditioned coffins upon which non-smokers can dance

second-hand smoke - even a tiny waft - makes me cough at best, retch at worst esp when pregnant. overdoing the lynx/perfume is just as bad.

I feel like ppl think I'm being pass-agg when I violently cough but it's genuine! It can't really be avoided though unless it's somewhere obnoxious like a cafe

I'll pass a smoker on the sidewalk and take deep breaths. Ah. Reminds me of the good times, of my grandfather, of my youth, of playing in the band.

Wasn't always the case. Used to gag when I'd pass a smoker on the sidewalk, back when I was undergoing chemotherapy.

Kinder, I’m with you — and I’m an ex-smoker. Curiously, though, only certain cigarettes make me cough/retch.

This is irrational but: ads on free Spotify for Spotify premium. "Pay us and you can listen without these annoying ads... stop us doing this... and thiiiisss... are you ready to throw your phone across the room yet?.... How about another ad straight after this one?"

it drives me nuts when people judge me for doing a drug a few times a month and they smoke weed every day, and that's not a big deal? I wish people would stop comparing their addictions.

I find the stench of weed more offensive than cigs tbh.

the fact that Elijah Wood seems incapable of wearing a shirt that he doesn't button up to the top button

this book is not for you https://www.amazon.com/Buttoned-Up-London-Penguin-Underground-Lines/dp/1846145686

Rhyming m with n

can i add 'Deep Heat' to the second hand smoke and excessive perfume mentioned above. k, thx, bye.

Every time the "New Aphex Twin Record" thread shows up on SNA on Zing. I've fallen for that guy's new record so many times. I honestly wish he would stop. He's like the goddamn Simpsons.

look, i understand
the cough you have had for 2 months something to do with allergies & yr taking stuff for it and you are just annoyed by it as me

& its barely a tickle now

but still

jesus fucking christ

throat clearing
every.thirty.seconds
is driving me up the fuuuuuuucking wall

When that happens to me I get some ginger candy or something. Just for the sake of fellow humans.

Humidty got me IA today. I want to live in a solid block of ice or on the surface of the sun right now. Anywhere dry.

HUMIDITY I mean.

when people say "because (a)" but never get around to saying "(b)"

^^^^

can i also add 'fish and chips smell' to the list of banned smells? (not because it's unpleasant but because it's making me hungry)

ppl who tell a long story, wind up by saying "so long story short" & then basically retell their same long story again aaaaaagh

People who get on a train at the origination stop--an airport, for instance--and say, "Wow! Look at all the empty seats on this train! I guess no one's riding today. Therefore I will ignore the overhead racks and put my suitcases on a three person seat, then I'll lie down on another seat and go to sleep with a newspaper over my face."

Then the train hits the second stop a few minutes later and 7000 people get on...

wondering what the story was behind something I saw from a bus window on the way into town. A car had collided with a bollard or something and had plastic cones around it and a bunch of civilian or at least not police around it. That is 2 or 3 people who had taken it upon themselves to stop the traffic at rush hour so that the car could be pushed out into the road and then what I'm not sure.
I assume they couldn't be aware that there was a tailback leading to the bottom of the road and presumably beyond since the road goes out of sight up the hill before the bus turns.
Not sure what the best thing they could have done there was, maybe leave the car until traffic cleared or get somebody with some authority over the road or understanding of traffic flow to be involved. Not sure how long that lasted, it was clear when i went back by a couple of hours later.