So today I was picking up some Christmas presents and one thing I needed was a movie. Do you know how hard it is to find 1 particular movie. The first place I was at was BestBuy. Oddly they had the biggest movie selection of the three stores I went to. I spent a good while searching through the comedy section to come up empty handed at least with movies I was. So after I couldn’t find the movie I decided to go across the street to Walmart. Surely Walmart would have it.. So I thought.. Walmart had a terrible selection and it was quite small. I spent some time searching then hopped on the handy dandy iPhone to see if it was in stock. Acording to their website its only available online so I was out of luck again. After being 0 for 2 I decided to try Meijers. For those of you who don’t know what it is, think of it as a smaller version of Walmart. This store had even less movies than Walmart and I didn’t have good cell phone reception so I left after spending only a few minutes looking. In the end I bought movie on Amazon.

I have ranted several times on the local grocery store and its horrible categorization. This is why I hate traditional stores and have been working on building the ultimate eCommerce solution which I am expecting to be out later this year.

I think I should make a new rant section of posts for stupid things from companies. I have had an ongoing problem with HP for months (at work). I sent in a laptop with green lines running vertically down the screen. We sent several of the same laptops in with that issue and they fixed them no problem because of the warranty. NOW, they decided this one was “accidental damage” and asked if we would like them to fix it for ~$620. HA, YEAH RIGHT.. That didn’t happen. However, because I stated my case I got them to waive the $89 return unfixed fee. This was about two months ago. Today I finally got a hold of someone other than the damn machine telling me to “stay on the line” to ask where the hell is this laptop. I generally use their (HP) chat support because most written english doesn’t have an accent and since 1-20 people working for HP have an American accent (as opposed to an accent from India) its hard to talk to them on the phone. It was impossible to talk to the person I needed to via chat so I had to call them. After being on hold for 10 minutes, someone with an accent picked up the phone and proceeded to get my name and case number. After that I got put on hold another 10 minutes. *I was getting really upset by now* After waiting he comes on and tells me that someone will be contacting me in 24-48 hours regarding the case. ARE YOU FRICKEN SERIOUS!!!!!!!!!! *I was past upset at this point* So I asked about the status of the laptop and he could not tell me and that I would have to wait… The whole point of that phone number I called was so that they could tell me. Tell me you threw it in the trash, I don’t care. I just want to know what happened to it…

So after going on 2 months of awaiting the return of this laptop I have gotten nowhere in tracking down its status. Good Game HP.. YOUR SUPPORT SUCKS THE BIG ONE!

This is part 1 of a new series for things that I hate (or TIH). These are annoyances and anything that irritates me or just really pisses me off.

This came upon me today while at work. I was taking some old Apple printers to out storage area for recycling. With those printers came a box of tractor feet paper. You know the ones. They are sheets of paper connected together and have tractor feet on the sides of them.

Anyways, I set the box on the top of my car while I get out the printers. When I did this a big gust of wind hit and took sheet after sheet with it. So, I stopped it from getting longer and ended up crunching it up together. I tried folding it back together but the wind just was not letting me…

This got “Things I Hate” for the annoyance and how much it irritated me cleaning up.