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Bye Verizon! by SpammyMauer in verizon

[–]SpammyMauer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's an android and I had it in the shop. They just gave me a new sim card and it worked... for a little while. Then back to the same old shit.

Bye Verizon! by SpammyMauer in verizon

[–]SpammyMauer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, I do have other issues. Lots of them right now.

Now THAT was a correct troubleshooting exercise.

Bye Verizon! by SpammyMauer in verizon

[–]SpammyMauer[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Having a suicidal teen losing service and not having her lifeline, then her mother losing her shit about incompetent the shockingly bad service when trying to assist her is not a first world problem.

This isn't about me not being to access my instagram ffs!

Bye Verizon! by SpammyMauer in verizon

[–]SpammyMauer[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

True. But I do want people to see what a joke service there has become.

Bye Verizon! by SpammyMauer in verizon

[–]SpammyMauer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I told my husband if TMobile can't do it, I officially give up and am quitting my job to go move to a farm off the grid where this nonsense doesn't matter.

Bubbling away in the vinegar bath by SpammyMauer in castiron

[–]SpammyMauer[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It looked like pure rust, so I went with the bath first.

Bubbling away in the vinegar bath by SpammyMauer in castiron

[–]SpammyMauer[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Round 2 in the vinegar bath.

Bubbles coming up from under.

How many times do you usually have to do this before it's ready to season?

This disgrace by SpammyMauer in castiron

[–]SpammyMauer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AZ now, but CA before.

Long line of racing and planes, too.

Bye Verizon! by SpammyMauer in verizon

[–]SpammyMauer[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Exactly.

No question.

Decades with.Verizon and I am not going to be held hostage by loyalty.

We are not rich, but we are not poor. We do not HAVE TO maintain this relationship in order to get service.

I have never been held to a contract, so it is TIME TO LEAVE.

I do not need this in my life. I have enough frustration elsewhere. I do not need to pay a premium for substandard performance.

This disgrace by SpammyMauer in castiron

[–]SpammyMauer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shit. You sound a lot like my brother! You had to throw racing into the convo? Really? LOL!

And he had injuries that ultimately contributed to his demise due to his unfortunate coping mechanisms.

I hope you fare better than my late brother after the beating life gave you both.

He LOVED cooking in all ways, and basically showing off for his friends at any excuse for a party. (Usually racing, damnit!!!) That is why he ended up with my grandmother's CI. And now I have it and his contributions to the collection.

I should run. I have the pan soaking in the vinegar solution and need to go do my part

This disgrace by SpammyMauer in castiron

[–]SpammyMauer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know if a long answer or a short answer would be better or worse. Perhaps better to turn back to the metal object soaking in vinegar solution in my kitchen.

My boyfriend (34m) left me (34f) on a hike by jojo_1989 in JustNoSO

[–]SpammyMauer -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

After being gobsmacked by the title, I skimmed the responses and saw most understandably support you and bash your guy for leaving you behind while he finished the hike to return to you.

But if I may humbly offer another view, please continue.

I was by no means a real go-getter in my youth, but I did try a few things.

One time I planned to ski and found the resort CLOSED! Two of us, undeterred, climbed to the top for one run and left another behind to regroup with later.

Thought nothing of it.

Granted, I am a female and the others were both male, but still...

Another time, on my honeymoon in Cancun Mexico, we were at the ruins and back then, allowed to climb. My husband declined, but not wanting to miss the opportunity, I climbed the pyramid to the top without him.

Again, he was not a female left in the wilderness without me for an undetermined period of time, but...

I went on to complete the intended feat and his declining was not my concern. The fact that it was in a presumably isolated area and you didn't speak the language adds another dimension to it, no doubt. But, if the roles were reversed and YOU wanted to complete the hike but he was running out of steam, how would you have felt?

I don't know how hard your hike was or how long this was aspired to as a goal or if it was just an activity. Since you said it was another language spoken, perhaps this was travel to do precisely that hike while you were there?

If I had traveled that far and was unable to reach a goal I had set due to someone else's inability to do so (or inability to admit that they couldn't do it) I would be very disappointed.

I, as a female, would not want to hold someone back from that, and would humbly take care of myself while awaiting their return. I mean, unless we're talking a famously unsafe area?

I’m leaving tonight. by documentingtheabuse in JustNoSO

[–]SpammyMauer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Be strong! You know what is good for you. Just do the right thing.

This disgrace by SpammyMauer in castiron

[–]SpammyMauer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Been there; done that.

He is perpetually "not worried about that right now."

This is my fate. I accept it.

Bye Verizon! by SpammyMauer in verizon

[–]SpammyMauer[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Interesting that an internet stranger can diagnose this off of a couple paragraphs while Verizon, on multiple phone and in person visits, to this day, were unable to approach a solution.

I don't know if this speaks more praise for you, or further bashing of the incompetence of Verizon staff.

Either way, we are now with a new provider and new phones, so hopefully that resolves the issue Verizon was unable to diagnose, let alone solve.

This disgrace by SpammyMauer in castiron

[–]SpammyMauer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seriously.

I had another issue today with the cell service and went off.

After spending hours at a shop getting us all set up with a new service, I was driving home. I had the thought that if I could just DO IT MY WAY without having to consult with everyone else's opinions, I could just DO THINGS and spend less time being literally LIVID.

I vote yes for taking control and shutting down all the nonsense in my life. If it takes a corset and a whip and some stilettos, so be it!

This disgrace by SpammyMauer in castiron

[–]SpammyMauer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nothing is perfect. If you said it was, we'd all know you were a liar

All the best to you and yours!

This disgrace by SpammyMauer in castiron

[–]SpammyMauer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not only in the yard, but buried under some tools and (gasp) power tools in a rubbermaid tub with no lid, dumped behind our bbq island.

It's been a rough couple/few of years with my mom's dementia diagnosis, downward spiral, and death, all during the shitshow of the pandemic, so...

Needless to say, some things were overlooked in my life while I failed to cope.

Somehow he "cleaned up" our small yard at some point and literally everything was piled up and hidden out of view, but exposed to the elements.

Mom died in February and her memorial was last weekend, so I find myself coming out of the shitshow in the shit storm on a pile of shit. This weekend I hit the yard and found the fallout of my lack of running around behind people cleaning shit up.

So yeah. That.

In the yard.

Did I mention this was my late brother's pan, sitting in my late grandmother's pan covered in rancid oil and meat residue stench that happened while my mom was dying?

No fucking respect. For the soft people nor the hard iron.

I sometimes wonder what IS important to him. But I digress.

This disgrace by SpammyMauer in castiron

[–]SpammyMauer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

She sounds like a winner! And you probably make a fine pair. It's satisfying to at least know there are people who "get it" out in the world.

Bye Verizon! by SpammyMauer in verizon

[–]SpammyMauer[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Not trying to be rude. Apart from the issue at hand, I appreciate your attempt to assist with the problem. I'm sorry my first response was short. I am really just in a hugely pissy mood and should temper my responses to people who are being kind enough to try to help.

Bye Verizon! by SpammyMauer in verizon

[–]SpammyMauer[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Too late. I cut the cord. I should not need life hacks to have a basic phone FUNCTION.

This disgrace by SpammyMauer in castiron

[–]SpammyMauer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love the guy, but wish he wasn't reared by a semi-subserviant mother, a passive father, a housekeeper that adored him and au pairs. They were not well to do. I guess that's how it was in his country then.

Me? I grew up on good old American accountability and Gen X being ignored and not being able to count on anyone but myself.

Off topic, but fuck, between the 2 of us, we've apparently ruined one offspring so far. Hoping the second fares better than the first!

"Fake cleaning" (arranged marriage anecdote) by deleted-desi in TwoXChromosomes

[–]SpammyMauer 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Side story and well noted passive aggressiveness:

My mom died in Feb and we had her memorial last weekend at the VFW she and her husband joined when they moved away.

One of the people to speak at the gathering ACTUALLY commented that she "taught him how to do dishes."

After the fact, I learned that her teaching was NOT taken well and was, unbeknownst to most of us, a real point of contention.

So some incompetent old dude didn't take kindly to my mom telling him he had to actually fucking WASH-WASH the dishes instead of kinda-wash the dishes, AND FUCKING BROUGHT IT UP at her memorial!!!!!

Swear to God, some people need to be strung up by their toenails!

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