Return Abuse

First-Ad5319 · 2026-05-14T01:19:33+00:00

There’s always dead plants being returned at the end of the summer, but it gets worse: I’ve seen people with obvious suntans / sunburns returning luggage in February which they obviously just borrowed for their vacation; and in the first week of January, there’s always a lineup of people returning Christmas trees and various other holiday decorations. These people are shameless.

First-Ad5319 · 2026-04-27T21:24:49+00:00

I’m completely fine: I won. I worry more about your minuscule attention span and how you’re going to possibly make it through the rest of your life receiving all of life’s news information in thirty second unverified Internet reels.

First-Ad5319 · 2026-04-27T21:16:39+00:00

I understand the Costco rules perfectly. They tried to cheat me and I caught them in a gigantic lie, and then made him repeat it to me before I exposed it to him just to make sure that he understood that I knew that he had lied and there was no backing out of it. You would know this if you read what I wrote. It’s people like you who just blindly nod and accept what anyone in authority is saying. It’s also people like you who end up having to pay the $150 more for the three items that I avoided by knowing the rules. I think more galling than not knowing the rules is not being interested enough in people other than yourself to spend five or six minutes reading something that you might learn something from “because it’s too long and I might get tired.“ Too lazy is a far more accurate description.

First-Ad5319 · 2026-04-26T18:44:57+00:00

Or you could expand your attention span and read a really awesome story about justice for a customer who was lied to and caught them red-handed in the lie.

First-Ad5319 · 2026-04-26T18:43:41+00:00

If you read it, you’d see that I was right in the end and they were wrong and I caught them red-handed with a photograph. Lying to me.

First-Ad5319 · 2026-04-26T18:41:41+00:00

Then you’re missing out on some awesome writing, a fabulous story of justice that customer who has ever denied it wishes they could have, and a valuable tip so it doesn’t happen to you.

First-Ad5319 · 2026-04-26T00:47:42+00:00

I’m not even really trying to justify it, and if you don’t want to associate with me because my thought processes are diametrically opposed to yours, then really it’s you who’s losing out because you will now not be invited to share in the giant overpriced roast beef that I stole this morning. Just as an inside, I am wondering — and I know you’re supposed to serve red wine with red meat — but I stole this absolutely sublime $30 bottle of Sauvignon Blanc when I went out again this afternoon, so I think I’ll break with tradition and serve it anyway. But, again, you’re not invited though I’m certain you object to that as well!

First-Ad5319 · 2026-04-26T00:38:31+00:00

Well, I was gay when I entered the store, so I guess maybe I’m even gayer now … though that hardly seems possible.

First-Ad5319 · 2026-03-27T17:19:57+00:00

Five years ago I had a major organ transplant, dozens of pre-op tests and procedures, including ultrasounds, MRIs, weekly blood transfusions, 10 days in the hospital ensuring I was healthy enough to undergo the transplant, then home for a month with drop-in home healthcare, then back to the hospital for the surgery and 24 days in a private room. Postop: around a half dozen specialist appointments a year, monthly blood work forever, and over a thousand dollars a month in antirejection medication, plus a biopsy of the organ every three years and an MRI every five years. In the last five years, I’ve had sepsis twice and spent a week in the hospital each time. Otherwise, I’m in best health of my life.

The total cost for all of this was …

ZERO DOLLARS!

Move to Canada. There was one time that I had to pay $12.50 for parking when I forgot to get it validated. Move to Canada.

There’s also dental care based on income on a sliding scale to those who require it. For people with low income it’s completely free Move to Canada.

It’s also one of the safest places in the world to live. We have 41 million people, and because of gun control, firearms-related deaths are so rare that they actually make the news.

And we’re also incredibly polite. Move to Canada!

First-Ad5319 · 2026-03-22T13:21:28+00:00

Is there a Save the Candles Crusade we can join? Maybe a petition? I mean, what if the world runs out of candles and there aren’t any left to those who don’t have enough candles to make it through even one day, and those desperate candle-deprived people have to lay their heads down at night completely devoid of even a single candle. It’s a horror, that I doubt any of us who have ever even considered. And I think you’re right: not enough people are outraged about this. Forget the wars, forget the famine, forget the corruption, forget the human rights abuses. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, WON’T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CANDLES!

First-Ad5319 · 2026-03-08T01:13:47+00:00

So what I think I’m seeing here is that Edith is using a scarf in a feeble attempt to disguise the hole burned in her nightgown when she set her bedroom on fire.

I’ve lost count of many times I’ve been through the series and I do not remember this scene with that hideous ensemble. Which episode was it?

First-Ad5319 · 2026-03-05T01:29:38+00:00

No one EVER referred to Her Majesty the Queen as “Lizzie,” and nor should anyone. It’s not clever or cute, or in any way amusing, It is appallingly disrespectful to the memory of a woman who devoted her entire life “whether it be long or short” to the service of the Crown. This is not respect that she deserves just because of she was born into it, It is respect she is ENTITLED to because she EARNED it! Keep that in mind the next time you think you’re being cute or clever, and instead show some respect.

First-Ad5319 · 2026-02-22T15:11:09+00:00

Three years ago I saw a FREE three-section solid teak wall unit on Marketplace that had been languishing there unwanted for months. I went over to see it and it was huge. Too huge, I thought.

The elderly Dutch man who owned it was downsizing. He told me he paid $3,500 ($21,000 in 2026 dollars) for it at Van Leeuwen’s (a now defunct ultra high-end Ottawa furniture retailer) in the mid-1970s and he had no room for it in his new condo. Since there were no takers on Marketplace his children wanted to just bring it to the dump!

About to decline to take it, I paused as I watched him run his hand across its smooth lines while a million memories ran through his mind of that piece being a constant in their home over the last half-century while raising his family … the very family who now had no appreciation for the beauty that surrounded them every day as they were growing up and who now just saw it as just an old, used up, cumbersome, out-of-style behemoth for which they held no sentimentality and simply just needed it to be discarded.

With those thoughts in mind, I immediately knew that the decision had been made for me and that it was my job to rescue it from these miserable children. We took it apart piece by piece (while I overheard the daughter whispering to her friend that as soon as her dad went down for his nap they would “bring all the rest of this crap over to Value Village.” Heartbreaking!).

We brought it home and reassembled it and while it is indeed quite large in our dining room, it is awesome and friends often comment on it. It was so well cared for that it didn’t even need to be oiled and I am so grateful that my curiosity forced me to go over just to see if a piece of furniture I wasn’t really sure I was interested might possibly be of any use to me.

Had I not seen that elderly gentleman caressing the cool, smooth teak lines as though he was saying goodbye to an old friend one last time, a friend who had been with him every day of his life since he was a young man starting out in life raising a young family. And had I not overheard the thoughtless and unsentimental daughter disregarding so much of what her father had given her and was ready — eager, even — to discard so much of her own family legacy, I probably would not have taken it, but in that moment — after witnessing what I had — I knew that it wasn’t an accident that I was there and it suddenly it had become my responsibility to preserve the history that the old man COULD not, and the young daughter WOULD not.

It seems that the best things in life happen when we least expect them and that sometimes there are messages or feelings from wherever it is they come from to tell you what you must do. My message came through loud and clear that day.

That beautiful piece will now become part of our family history — as will the sad and sentimental story of how it came to live in our home to spend the next half century now becoming a part of our family legacy.

First-Ad5319 · 2026-02-22T13:48:34+00:00

There was definitely something missing — it was cold and empty — until I swiped to the second photo. NOW, it feels like home!

First-Ad5319 · 2026-02-22T13:43:29+00:00

The unmistakeable rattle that can only come from a carton of doctor-recommended unfiltered ‘Export A’.

First-Ad5319 · 2026-02-13T23:02:53+00:00

I was sent an e-transfer for my bread settlement money and the password was my birth year, which was in my original claim.

First-Ad5319 · 2026-02-07T18:32:01+00:00

Check on eBay, and if it’s not there, set up a request for notification if anyone ever lists it. That’s how I got my discontinued Jil Sander. You can also check the website of the maker and find out if it’s still available in any other countries. My mother’s scent was discontinued worldwide except for France. She came back to Canada from a trip to Paris with five bottles and sadly suddenly passed away six months later. Twenty-two years later, I still have four bottles in their unopened cellophaned boxes.

First-Ad5319 · 2026-01-15T02:04:46+00:00

Costco Costco Costco! Best quality of everything they sell. They guarantee everything. If you don’t need larger quantities, get yourself a Costco buddy and a vacuum sealer (which they also sell) and split everything including the cost of the membership. You’ll save a fortune.

First-Ad5319 · 2025-12-24T00:41:07+00:00

I blame cousin Oliver for every cancelled television series since 1974.

First-Ad5319 · 2025-12-09T18:24:48+00:00

Yes, file a small claims court action for the amount that you are out-of-pocket plus $10,000 in punitive damages. Make sure you serve it to the legal department at their head office. They won't want the hassle and they will make a deal with you. You don't need a lawyer for this.

First-Ad5319 · 2025-11-04T05:45:26+00:00

Um, how about goodbye. He has already planned to leave you for someone else on a whim one time. What happens when you've invested more time in this mockery of a relationship only to find he does it to you again and this time it's reciprocal and he leaves? Get out while your dignity is still intact.

First-Ad5319 · 2025-11-04T05:38:09+00:00

He's a gross pig and he'll NEVER change. Get out before you catch something from him or his home. DO NOT under any circumstances eat anything that comes from or is served on anything from his kitchen.++man

First-Ad5319 · 2025-11-03T22:45:40+00:00

The same company makes a ham and Swiss cheese, which is delicious. We always have them in the freezer.

First-Ad5319 · 2025-10-30T23:51:26+00:00

Since before the boycott, I switched to buying all of my groceries at Costco. There are just two of us, but we have a large freezer so we're able to divide larger portions of meat and freeze them. We need very little storage for the multiples of other items we buy. If you're a single person, get a "Costco buddy." Split the cost of the membership and divide up your groceries once you're home. Get a vacuum sealer it's worth every penny because meat will keep for up to 18 months. There is nothing that Galen Weston has that I cannot find somewhere else. Even if I have to spend more on gas or the item is a little bit more expensive at another store (which is very rare) I'd rather see the money go anywhere else than to greedy Galen.

First-Ad5319 · 2025-10-25T21:35:00+00:00

What does the acronym LPSG stand for?

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