The edict has come down from the British Medical Journal that cell phones should not be used during thunderstorms. A girl was struck by lightning while in a London park as a thunderstorm raged while she was making a phone call. The headnote of the article states that cell phones may attract lightning, which is totally unsubstantiated. Who decides to actually print these things?
This story is similar to the one promulgated by gasoline service stations and petroleum conglomerates that cell phones can ignite huge conflagrations at the gas pump, resulting in serious injury and death, which is simply not true. And still the people behind the glass announce through the electromagnetically charged speaker system to get off my cell phone because I could blow up. And I suppose that I should also be worried that I might spontaneously combust while watching television.
And speaking of myths and rumors, I'm still waiting for my 2% rebate on my Costco purchases I made in 2005. I was conned into purchasing an "Executive" membership, for which I would receive a rebate ... I didn't get a check. When I went in there about a month ago, the lady with the computer in her hand said that I was a great customer and needed to renew my "Executive" membership. I asked what was in it for me, and she said that I would get a 2% rebate ... I told her I never got a check before. She was surprised. She took me over to the customer service counter and told the lady there to make sure my check for the 2005 purchases was re-issued. She chalked up my failure to receive a check to our move and change of address, which didn't make a whole lot of sense because the post office forwards mail. I still don't have my check, even though Costco has my new address. I'm wondering if I'm not the only one or if there are others who have not been paid their rebates.
Then there is Starbucks, which promised to send along some free drink coupons because of the rather poor service at the West 6th Street location ... don't have those, yet. It's been a month or so ... the Pony Express moved the mail from Seattle to Cleveland faster than that. And the door handle, which was also the subject of the complaint, still doesn't comply with Americans with Disabilities Act regulations. I'm beginning to wonder if Starbucks' Five-Star Service is a bunch of crap and whether any other Starbucks locations do not comply with the ADA regulations.
Posted by Bill at June 26, 2006 03:10 PMStarbucks sucks soap. I went into one recently with my trusty laptop, and found I couldn't use their wi-fi unless I paid up the wazoo for access through t-mobile. A day pass - $10. Two bucks for a cup of joe and 10 bucks to check my farking e-mail. Damn capitalists.
Posted by: Kyle at June 28, 2006 03:03 AMthere is a new starbucks in my neighborhood. i don't go there. it is so broken up with walls and little boothes and crap that it is like tiny leetle fucking phone booth coffee tables or something. I don't know what they were thinking. Now I realize that Stace isn't a wheel chair driving disabled, but if she were? ya'll wouldn't want to be hanging at this new starbucks in my neighborhood, i'm guessing. however, the wide open and lovely dunn? yeah. best coffee in town, too. ;)
Posted by: Keri at July 3, 2006 12:08 AM