Pissed!
Im getting ready for work (which includes checking the forum) and both my girls start to go crazy at the back doors. When Niko is barking like she was I know something is up. I get up and look and there is some man with his dog at the top of our hill. I was watching him watch my dogs! He was tormenting them by just standing there with his dog looking at mine!!!!!!!! I was pissed! I open the door (a crack of course) and ask if I could help him. "No, just walking him". Are you flipping kidding me??? ON OUR PROPERTY???? Im not going to stop my girls from being protective of our property. If he was walking on the STREET it would have been a different story. I was so tempted to just let them go but if he is crazy enough to think that walking on property is ok then who knows what else he could do. He better not think that he can use our yard to get the dog to go to the bathroom because it has certain scents!!!!!!!!! 
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
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For Kurt and I, it's the other way around.
I made a Bloomingdale's Customer Service Person cry once. Since then he gets so embarrassed when I yell at people. He wasn't even there! It was over the phone while he was at work. And they deserved it! I have a special warranty on our couch - in case of stains, rips, everything. I called Bloomie's to get the number for the warranty people, but the rep on the phone decided to take things in her own hands. MISTAKE. They sent a person over to look at the damage (Kurt's damn cat took her claws to the couch)...10 days later, they denied my claim.
Well, I only have 10 days to contact the warranty company in order for them to fix the couch and I know for a fact that they would've covered it. I asked specifically when I got the coverage if they covered pet issues, even spoke to the warranty company. It took Bloomie's 10 days to get someone to my house and then another 10 days for them to deny my claim....so....I called the customer service department and ripped the rep a new one.
Her manager wouldn't even come on the phone! The rep was crying and her voice was shaking...after a few minutes, however, the manager decided to replace the half of the couch that was damaged. Hehe.
We have a 2 piece sectional. Each piece is 7'x4', so it was NOT an inexpensive couch. I felt bad for the delivery guys. It's super heavy couch and they had to bring one in and take one out.
Jay's favorite threat is "Please don't make me put my wife on the phone I am trying to be helpful here" If it is in person (this actually happened at an Iggy Pop concert) he tapped a guy on the shoulder (he drunkenly was smashing into a bunch of is and got me in the head) and said "If you don't chill the f*%# out my wife is going to kick the s*&% out of you. And I will sit back and laugh" He is strangely proud that I am meaner than him.
If you know where the guy lives. Wait til your akita is full grown (vengence is a dish best served cold) and let puppy take a big old dump in his yard a few time. What could he possibly say?
Brandon- You seem to forget that I am a midwest girl! We do have a bow and arrow that is Chads but I dont think that I can even lift it!
Jess- Im so glad you are on our side!
Romi- LMAO! I grew up inner city and often speak before I think. Im working on it....slowly. The thing that I get a little freaked by is that I am home alone for a week at a time and I get spooked about that. If I knew that my sasquatch of a husband was home all the time I will go ghetto style on him.
Brandon...See, the south has the right idea. We had a call center in NC when I worked at PriceWaterhouseCoopers. The sign at the entrance...'No Guns Allowed'. Like it would've been totally natural to bring a piece to work! Love it!
Romi...My mom get's embarrassed too, I had a few words with some biotch at a restaurant and my mom was totally freaked. My dad just wishes his 'sweet little girl' wasn't so willing to throw down, LOL.
I'm thinking about starting martial arts again, for now, I'm just boxing, which I love!!!
Jess....a girl after my own heart....
Jessica - Jay is awesome! That's the best line I have ever heard! I used to have to do occassional customer service and all the mean men would usually be transfered to me because my co-workers thought that if they talked to a girl, they would calm down...which they would...but when I would have to talk to a girl, its vicious. Women have no shame in their game when it comes to unsatisfactory service. I notice it myself, I don't give a damn if i talk to a girl or a guy. But I think guys feel bad when they yell at a girl, so it's easier to yell at a guy.
Rachael - Yeah, you should definately be extra careful when your sasquatch husband isn't around. lol. There's a lot of scary people out there. My neighbors with the Shiba had an attempted robbery early last year in broad day light! The husband came home for lunch and there the burglar was, standing in the stairway with a screw driver. He broke in through the den window. The husband ran out and called the cops. The burglar got away, and my neighbors installed a security system the next day. But at least you got your 2 pups to help you feel more safe. I think I would have to move back home if John and I had an arrangement like that. Im a pansy.
Barbara - LOL, my mom is just like you. She will spit it like she's the president of the united states. Especially when she's trying to bargain, (she's the best at it) but its just like...uhh...ook lets go mom....im getting uncomfortable. She always gives backhanded compliments and usually gets her way. My dad is usually the one who is always like "who cares, give up already" haha.
"sasquatch husband"
Nice.
Oddly, I don't like to negotiate too much at flea markets and bizarres, unless I'm buying furniture. Especially, when I'm out of the country because I feel like the people at markets or bizarres don't make a whole lotta money. If the price is reasonable, I don't have a problem paying full price.
My parents are in the Philippines for a few months and my mother is haggling over her pedicures and spa treatments. Understand that a massage is already $10/hr to $20/hr. The masseuse probably only makes $1 - $5/session and the biatch (my mother) is still haggling. I find it shameful, she's taking advantage of extremely poor people. Not only that, since she's still a Filipino citizen who worked for a number of years, she was thinking about collecting Social Security!! AND she applied for and received a Senior Citizen's discount card.
But...if my daddy gets upset with a waiter, she has the nerve to get embarrassed. Sorry....I have mom issues.
I hate being confrontational, but I also hate when people are stupid. Tommy bought my engagement ring at a local jeweler - you know, buy the setting through them, the diamond from them. We told them we were looking for a certified diamond etc, etc...so, they sold us the ring, wrote on the receipt that they sold a GIA, etc. So, we get the ring (we had to wait 2 months) and we wait to get the certification, since they didn't give it to Tommy with the ring. We called and they said it wasn't at the store, they probably sent it to us. 2 weeks, nothing. So we go in to talk to them about it, and they say "we must have made a mistake. that diamond isn't certified" luckily, it was on the receipt, so I wasn't about to let it go (plus I knew my mom would kill me if I didn't pursue it). we had had some other questions on stuff, and they answered those, and didn't bring up the cert. I was like, WTF - what's the resolution on this? "ohhh....well, we could send it in to get certified, but let us look for a cert around here...maybe it was done by another lab". So, we waited a week and a half, they called me twice about giving me a quote for a band, nothing about the diamond. So we went in, with my mom, luckily they were cooperative then, and sent in to get certified. It just bothered me that instead of immediately trying to resolve it, it was like they were hoping I would just drop the issue, and if I didn't say anything, they wouldn't either.
I have a friend who also recently got engaged, and when I was telling her the cert story, and how the number should be laser etched on the diamond, you have to look through a microscope to see it. She said, oh, when *John* got this, the jeweler told him the cert lab put a mark on the diamond...if you look at the diamond from the bottom, you can see tiny black specks...like pepper. I don't think that jeweler is very honest...I've never heard of a company that makes a mark visible to the naked eye on a diamond.
I try to believe that people are honest, and wouldn't take advantage, but sometimes they just aren't scrupulous. Or, sometimes they're just dumb - I guess I've seen that in the dog breeding world also - there are some messed up people out there.
I have a temper that's well known but I'll only go off on you if you caused the issue. If you didn't, I'm known to be wayyyyy too easy going. Patience is not a virtue I possess but I'll feel too much guilt going off on someone who is powerless to do anything. Errik will only say something if you go wayyyy out of line. He leaves me to fight my own battles and he knows I wont go overboard unless it's deemed necessary.
Rachael if I was you I would've ran out there and told the guy to get off my property. I'm very confrontational when I want to be.