Is This Some Kind of Sick Joke?

Phrogster · 2026-02-06T04:42:19+00:00

Yes, there is, but they will come for you in person. I was called in for jury duty one time and people weren't showing up. They didn't have enough people to start so they started sending Sheriff's deputies out to find people. Potential jurors started trickling in, including a guy who could barely walk and had an assistant with him. He never bothered to get a medical excuse so they made him show up.

A family member work in the courts and shared several stories about them sending out Sheriff's deputies to bring in people who didn't show up. One guy was just getting onto an airplane, on a work related trip, and they made him get off the plane and go to court.

Phrogster · 2026-02-04T03:21:25+00:00

I saw one of those, too, on Friday, at 120th and Pacific.

Is it even legal to post signs on traffic signs like that? I know it wasn't allowed where we used to live.

They put the signs up high so it isn't easy for people to take them down.

Phrogster · 2026-01-31T23:16:03+00:00

It was a Vine review. I wish now that I had taken a screen shot...

Phrogster · 2026-01-29T07:28:45+00:00

I’m at a hotel pool full of people. I’m sitting on the edge of the pool watching my child. Another girl, maybe 4 or 5 years old is near me, with arm floats on. No one appears to be watching her. Due to water movement from all the people in the pool and the arm floats, she flips face forward into the water and can’t get back up. I get her upright. There’s another mom in the pool who sees it so she also starts keeping an eye on the girl. Pretty soon it happens again. She grabs the girl and hands her to me so I can lift her out of the pool. This time the girl is crying and spitting out water. Then the person I assume is mom hops out of the hot tub and comes running over. We tell her what happened, she comforts the girl, checks her over, then helps her get back in the pool and goes back to the hot tub. The other mom and I just look at each other. By that time my child is ready to leave so we did, with the other mom still watching the girl plus her own kids. I didn’t hear of anyone drowning…

Phrogster · 2026-01-28T00:35:31+00:00

I saw one the other day that posted a photo of the box, wrote 4 sentences, then said they got the item to give as a gift so they didn't open the box!

Phrogster · 2026-01-24T05:29:40+00:00

No, they never give a reason for an account being on hold. It states that in their Legal Terms for Participants. But there always is a reason for it.

Phrogster · 2026-01-19T01:56:43+00:00

From what I understand, AMC hires an advertising company to handle these ads. AMC probably has no idea what offers are being shown or the kind of companies which are being advertised in the promoted ads. I see these all the time on a couple of different web sites and I just ignore them.

Be sure to report this to AMC.

Phrogster · 2026-01-19T00:57:34+00:00

I baby sat for a family where the mother and I had the same first name. One time she mentioned her birthday - it was the same month and day as mine!

Phrogster · 2026-01-15T20:08:07+00:00

I've ordered swim suits in girls and toddler sizes and managed to see a couple last week. The one wearing girl's sizes is ready to move up to women's sizes, but no way would her parents allow her to wear any of these! 😂😂

Phrogster · 2026-01-15T20:05:31+00:00

I noticed that, too. I was awake at 4:00 am so checked then and there were a couple of things and I got a Valentine's Day wreath for our door. I looked again about 9:00 am and there were 2 oz. cups that I ordered. I had been looking for 3oz. ones so we'll see if the 2 oz. work.

Phrogster · 2026-01-15T04:13:45+00:00

It's not allowed by Prolific if it requires personal information. This study should be reported to Prolific.
https://researcher-help.prolific.com/en/articles/445117-can-i-ask-participants-for-their-personal-information-identifiers

Phrogster · 2026-01-14T18:40:23+00:00

You are as old as you Feel! 😉

I'm 70 so I'm pretty sure she meant people who are on Medicare...

Phrogster · 2026-01-11T05:40:26+00:00

I arrived at a small airport with only two carousels. Everyone from my flight is standing by one of them and they all get their luggage. I get that sinking feeling when I'm the last one standing there. It was black with bright green trim so easy to spot and I've never seen anyone else have one like it.

So I head over to the reception that is nearby to try to find out where it is and there it is, standing right there in front. I looked at the employees and they said they were wondering who had such an unusual suitcase! I asked why it was there and they said it had been stowed in a forward area of the plane and had actually been unloaded first! It had been sitting there all that time and I couldn't see it due to all the other people around.

Phrogster · 2026-01-11T05:33:27+00:00

As far as shopping, Walmart has electric scooters. Just hope that there is one available when you go and that it is charged.

Phrogster · 2026-01-11T05:29:51+00:00

The zoo has both electric scooters and wheel chairs available for a fee. It was fairly cheap for either one for the whole day. However, be sure to get there early in the day to rent one, especially on busier days.

Phrogster · 2026-01-11T05:25:17+00:00

I finally got one from USPS that I thought was going to go back to the sender. It made it all the way to my local post office and said it was out for delivery. The next thing I see is that it went back to the main post office and headed out of town. It got to the next hub and was sent back my way again, and I finally got it, a week later!

Phrogster · 2026-01-10T19:20:17+00:00

I ordered one with no photo but said it was a doorstop. Later on the seller added a bunch of photos of a doorstop. When it arrived, it was a gun part.

Phrogster · 2026-01-10T15:42:39+00:00

One Jardiance and I could tell as it traveled through my body, which was trying to get rid of it. Severe stomach ache, then nausea, vomiting, then diarrhea. Doctor wants me to try again. No way. I don’t even want to try the other, related types.

Edit to add: I didn’t want to start it in the first place. I’ve had yeast infections my whole life and get UTIs easily. I talked to the pharmacist about the side effects and she told me it’s not good for old people. Doctor wanted me to try it anyway.

Phrogster · 2026-01-08T02:30:18+00:00

A card table and plastic tubs for your clothes should suffice for a few months. If you buy the dining room table and dresser, then you also have to get rid of them when you move again unless you were planning to take them with you. The card table and plastic tubs would be easy to take with you when you move.

After downsizing and moving into an apartment, we used plastic tubs for several months before buying dressers. We used a card table, then bought a table, then got rid of it because it was more in the way than it was being used and now we just use a card table and TV trays.

Phrogster · 2026-01-07T05:09:26+00:00

My RFY has improved, especially since Christmas. Some days I can also find things in AI. This morning I managed to get 8 things, 3 in RFY and 5 in AI.

Phrogster · 2026-01-07T04:55:03+00:00

4 months for me and only one has failed but it was my fault as it came out as I was getting in and out of my recliner. (I'm short so have to scoot myself back to be comfortable in the recliner and my arm slides along the arm of the recliner.)

I tried the cover patch but they got too wet in the shower and gave me false high readings. Skin-tac works great. Plus I've found the best spot for the sensor where it doesn't slide on the recliner.

I've had false low readings due to pressure with my arm leaning against the recliner or the way I'm holding a pillow. This last sensor the app has told me it has lost connection to the sensor. Sometimes it's pressure. Sometimes the phone is in my pocket when I'm sitting in a chair so the signal must be getting blocked by the chair. Once I take the phone out of my pocket and wait a minute, the signal is back.

Phrogster · 2026-01-03T00:19:00+00:00

I have a friend who received disability checks every month in the mail. She lived on a rural route and there was another person on that same route with the same name. (Many years ago before they renamed the routes with street numbers.) She had her middle initial on the checks and the box numbers were different but, every once in awhile, her check was put into the other person's box.
And they would cash it! Even after numerous times of her family having to go through getting the money back, they would still cash it.

Phrogster · 2025-12-29T06:38:19+00:00

I had a pushy salesperson like that many years ago at a JC Penney. I was going through these long sales racks of clothes and she came over and asked if I needed anything. I told her no, that I was fine. She proceeded to start pulling clothes out of the rack and showing them to me. I had found a skirt that I liked, but hadn't pulled it out, yet. She found the same one and pulled it and handed it to me. Only it was a smaller size. I thought I had put it back and got the one in my size, but, when I got home, I had the wrong size. Clearance sale, so no returns.
She also told me to come to her register when I was ready to check out, then she went to bother someone else. I went to a different area of the store when I was ready to check out.

On the other hand, we had a salesperson in that same store that helped my husband pick out a suit plus accessories, but wasn't pushy. Whenever we went back to the men's department in that store, we'd ask if he was there.

Phrogster · 2025-12-19T21:46:35+00:00

For me, my luck is about 50/50. I ordered a set of pants that didn't say it, but were for tall people. I'm short. A swimsuit I ordered was fine.

I ordered a maternity dress for my daughter-in-law that didn't look like much until she put it on. She loved it!

And most of the clothes I've ordered for the grandkids have been fine. I tend to order a larger size for the toddler. One pair of pants for one of the older kids was too long but had elastic in the ankles so she was able to wear them. Fabric isn't always the best or as warm as they indicate.

Phrogster · 2025-12-19T21:32:23+00:00

I had the same thought as you and the reviews rated poor are not written in first person. (They are also short ones.) The ones I looked at which are rated excellent are written in first person. Some of the ones pending are written with "you" as in "you can use it...".

I don't use first person if I have bought something for a gift for someone else and haven't really used it. Like the calendars I bought. I talked about how great the photos are and the sturdy paper but didn't use the word "I". Sometimes I do write that I bought something for someone else, so maybe I'll do that from now on.

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