Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Another Fine Example of Customer Service....



I am totally convinced the customer service industry is dead. Obviously since it is winter and I live in Canada having snow tires is a necessity. Last week my father gave me some coupons to get tires. My husband and I went to the tire place and had 4 winter tires in the correct size put aside for us and said we would be back the next day to have them put on. When we went back to have them put on the gentleman told my husband there were only 2 left!! Okay...now I know math has supposedly "changed" since I was a child but 2 is still less that 4! We ended up ordering the tires in...we were told they would be here by Monday. Well we decided that wasn't going to be acceptable since the tires on my car were...well...bald. We managed to get tires else where and have them put on the car. Good thing too. Today is Tuesday. Around 10 am I got a call from the tire place where we ordered the tires to apologise for another little mix up. Apparently my tires arrived yesterday as expected HOWEVER the stupid numb nuts didn't save the 4 tires for me. Should I still want them he MAY be able to get me some by next week. Now it was really a non issue since I had already found tires elsewhere but had I waited I would have been up the river without a paddle!
How do stupid people keep jobs anyway???

Here comes Santa Floyd!


Sick...

I hate being sick. I always manage to get something at the most inconvenient times!!! Harrison and Victoria BOTH have nasty colds. I had a few sniffles and thought that was the end of it...yeah not so much! I have in the last 12 hours developed a nasty cough, can't breathe at all through my nose and I wheeze if I breath through my mouth, my throat is raw, I have a fever and now have the stomach flu to boot! ( I will spare you the details!)

Victoria is at school, Harrison is asleep and I just want to sleep too but I have to clean up before my mother in law arrives tonight from England.

Sigh....why does the mommy have to get sick?!?!?!

Saturday, November 27, 2010

Harrison takes a boat ride


My husband thought it would be fun to teach our son to play boats....somehow this wasn't what I had in mind.

Nutcracker Tickets

Just a friendly reminder that Victoria is dancing next weekend at the Atlantic Theater Festival in the Nutcracker. Tickets are available now for all 3 shows. Just give me a call or call the Acadia box office.

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Why do I have a feeling this will cause more problems in the long run?

I know travel security is a big business but this seems a bit extreme.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/101122/oddities/us_aviation_travel_security_offbeat

This is why in a few years the NTSB or some other agency will make wearing underwear on a plane illegal.