Is "Old" age creeping up on you?

Krystal Shay said:
When I send my husband to the store, I have to take pictures of items so he knows what to get too. :rolleyes:
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Marie Miller said:
And then he leaves the phone in the truck.
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Here's the fix for that. Use the store's curbside pickup, go online and place your order. Now when I send my husband to the store he doesn't even have to go inside (and he doesn't bring home $200 worth of cookies and snacks.) :giggle:
 
Beth Gallagher said:
Here's the fix for that. Use the store's curbside pickup, go online and place your order. Now when I send my husband to the store he doesn't even have to go inside (and he doesn't bring home $200 worth of cookies and snacks.) :giggle:
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I did that, too, and it does work well.
I actually didn’t send Bobby to the store because i love to go grocery shopping myself and hunt for bargains. Now, I bypass the whole thing altogether, order online and when my grocery list has enough to have free delivery, then I have it shopped and delivered, and Bobby just goes outside and brings it in when the delivery person gets here.
 
Hoot Crawford said:
funny, but what do you expect from Utubers. But I will say that PAD is not a laughing matter
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Yes, Hoot, I know. I have PAD too. Or something reasonably close to it. But I do agree with the idea that sometimes, laughter is the best medicine. Specially when you have something (or things) there is (are) no known cure for. For me, making jokes is a coping mechanism.

But to answer your question, "what do you expect from Utubers", I expect to get Clickbait nonsense, fake news and AI BS. And for 90% of what I see from Tubers, I would say there is an abundance of that.
 
Beth Gallagher said:
Here's the fix for that. Use the store's curbside pickup, go online and place your order. Now when I send my husband to the store he doesn't even have to go inside (and he doesn't bring home $200 worth of cookies and snacks.) :giggle:
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Cookies and snacks are a bag of Doritos once a month or so. SO enjoys grocery shopping. And he finds things such as peppermint bark tea. Actually he enjoys shopping. We have the storage and freezer space (commercial 2-door) and we share a lot. Who brought a six pack of Charmin as hostess gift during the TP crisis?
 
Axel Slingerland said:
Yes, Hoot, I know. I have PAD too. Or something reasonably close to it. But I do agree with the idea that sometimes, laughter is the best medicine. Specially when you have something (or things) there is (are) no known cure for. For me, making jokes is a coping mechanism.

But to answer your question, "what do you expect from Utubers", I expect to get Clickbait nonsense, fake news and AI BS. And for 90% of what I see from Tubers, I would say there is an abundance of that.
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You have a point there. It took me 12 years to get out of a black hole by using SO’s mantra - Can you change it so do your best. Can you not change it go a different route.
 
Waking up nearly pain-free is a good thing, indeed. The last time that happened for me was in Eureka back in September 2022, the day after my last Occipital Nerve Block with my favorite Pain Specialist Doc. I used to think waking up to a 3 was a nearly pain-free morning. It's better than 9 or 10, but I would still have pain. Since I moved south, the best I have had was a 5 or 6.

I hope you get pain-free mornings every day. (y)
 
Marie got me to order her some pain patches that I think, "Don" posted or told her about? salonpas pain relief patches; so I ordered one box of 9, large and a Proto Arc seat cushion . Well they were here over night, at 8 am this morning. When I opened the box there were all kinds of therapy pain patches in the box; I thought what the hell? Price had gone from $40, to $110 overnight. Got on line about their return policy, which said there are non returnable items. So I called them instead. The woman named Mae, said she will refund the $61.00 since I "didn't order them", and that I don't have to return them, and could throw them away or use them if I wanted to. "Stranger" than that, was the icy hot patches boxes, over $20 each I received two of them, and she said she only shows I got one. Not sure who made the mistake, or is giving things away; but it could get "expensive", doing business that way.
 
Jake Smith said:
Marie got me to order her some pain patches that I think, "Don" posted or told her about? salonpas pain relief patches; so I ordered one box of 9, large and a Proto Arc seat cushion . Well they were here over night, at 8 am this morning. When I opened the box there were all kinds of therapy pain patches in the box; I thought what the hell? Price had gone from $40, to $110 overnight. Got on line about their return policy, which said there are non returnable items. So I called them instead. The woman named Mae, said she will refund the $61.00 since I "didn't order them", and that I don't have to return them, and could throw them away or use them if I wanted to. "Stranger" than that, was the icy hot patches boxes, over $20 each I received two of them, and she said she only shows I got one. Not sure who made the mistake, or is giving things away; but it could get "expensive", doing business that way.
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Man, sorry you had problems @Jake Smith. I usually just buy them locally as there are so many types of patches. I just received an order of a nasal spray I have come to use, and it wasn't right either. Maybe they are using AI to fill orders and if AI doesn't understand the order, it just sticks whatever it figures they have and send it off. We just had a school superintendent complain about another school district in the state and used information from Galena, Illinois with a population of 3151 to complain about Galena, Alaska with a population of 456. Apparently neither AI nor the school superintendent knew there were at least two towns in the country with the same name. The superintendent is now under pressure since he was too lazy to write his own position paper and used a technique that is banned in the school system for students to use. He was complaining about how many families now homeschool and proceeded to demonstrate why so many do.
 
Jake Smith said:
Not sure who made the mistake, or is giving things away; but it could get "expensive", doing business that way.
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Never trust an idiot to do an intelligent person's job. Even though, sometimes it can be very amusing. For the last two and a half years we have been driving 7 miles into Bakersfield (round trip) to get a Mocha. They know us, they see our car on the security camera and place the order the way we always get them, and make them the way we like them. I tease one of the cashiers about being in the Psychic Friend's Club. The first time I did that she didn't know what I was talking about. But she's young, Miss Cleo was before her time.

Last night we were over in Bakersfield and stopped for a Mocha on the way home. I told the cashier what we wanted, "A large Mocha Frappe with no toppings and a large Mocha Frappe with no whipped cream." I should have said "Ok, thank you" and left when the cashier asked me "What do you mean, No Toppings?" I thought to myself "Don't you know what toppings are?" but being my usual polite self, I just said "Ok, let me try that again. Could I have a large Mocha Frappe with no choklit drizzle and no whipped cream and a large Mocha Frappe with no whipped cream?" He said ok. When I got to the pick up window, they handed me one with no whipped cream and started to hand another one to me with no choklit but it did have whipped cream. I said "That one isn't mine." The girl laughs and said "Why am I not surprised?" And makes me a plain Mocha. I asked her why she wasn't surprised. She says "He screws up just about every order." Then she says "Do you want this?" and holds out the one with whipped cream. I said "Sure, Thank you." I scooped the whipped cream out when we got home... McD's uses oil based cheap whipped cream that leaves a nasty oily aftertaste, which is why I ask them to skip it.
 
Don Alaska said:
Man, sorry you had problems @Jake Smith. I usually just buy them locally as there are so many types of patches. I just received an order of a nasal spray I have come to use, and it wasn't right either. Maybe they are using AI to fill orders and if AI doesn't understand the order, it just sticks whatever it figures they have and send it off. We just had a school superintendent complain about another school district in the state and used information from Galena, Illinois with a population of 3151 to complain about Galena, Alaska with a population of 456. Apparently neither AI nor the school superintendent knew there were at least two towns in the country with the same name. The superintendent is now under pressure since he was too lazy to write his own position paper and used a technique that is banned in the school system for students to use. He was complaining about how many families now homeschool and proceeded to demonstrate why so many do.
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No worries, Don. You may be right about AI messing orders up; not sure, just surprised me is all. I have plenty of different kinds now.
 
Axel Slingerland said:
Never trust an idiot to do an intelligent person's job. Even though, sometimes it can be very amusing. For the last two and a half years we have been driving 7 miles into Bakersfield (round trip) to get a Mocha. They know us, they see our car on the security camera and place the order the way we always get them, and make them the way we like them. I tease one of the cashiers about being in the Psychic Friend's Club. The first time I did that she didn't know what I was talking about. But she's young, Miss Cleo was before her time.

Last night we were over in Bakersfield and stopped for a Mocha on the way home. I told the cashier what we wanted, "A large Mocha Frappe with no toppings and a large Mocha Frappe with no whipped cream." I should have said "Ok, thank you" and left when the cashier asked me "What do you mean, No Toppings?" I thought to myself "Don't you know what toppings are?" but being my usual polite self, I just said "Ok, let me try that again. Could I have a large Mocha Frappe with no choklit drizzle and no whipped cream and a large Mocha Frappe with no whipped cream?" He said ok. When I got to the pick up window, they handed me one with no whipped cream and started to hand another one to me with no choklit but it did have whipped cream. I said "That one isn't mine." The girl laughs and said "Why am I not surprised?" And makes me a plain Mocha. I asked her why she wasn't surprised. She says "He screws up just about every order." Then she says "Do you want this?" and holds out the one with whipped cream. I said "Sure, Thank you." I scooped the whipped cream out when we got home... McD's uses oil based cheap whipped cream that leaves a nasty oily aftertaste, which is why I ask them to skip it.
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The new generation just have no clue; but who's to "blame"? Seems we all have those days, more than the old days, it's a lack of communication, I think. Who Knows? She has three different types now. She's trying "icy hot", ones today.
 
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Jake Smith said:
The new generation just have no clue; but who's to "blame"? Seems we all have those days, more than the old days, it's a lack of communication, I think.
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In the case of my kids, it certainly wasn't a lack of communication on our part. The kids either just didn't listen to us or didn't want to hear what we were telling them. For example, you may have seen my posts on creating and faithfully using an "Internet Persona" online, to maintain your privacy and security. Particularly on message boards, which are rarely private or secure. I told my kids about that long before they ever saw a computer, cell phone, etc., outside of our house. And after I ran "The Pit" (the PC Pitstop Forum) for 4 years, they had frequently heard me talk about that in minute detail. Did they listen? Yeah, plenty of times. Did they take my advice? Uhhh... No. Nor did I actually think they would either.

Years later, they both told me they wished they had listened and taken my advice.
 
Axel Slingerland said:
In the case of my kids, it certainly wasn't a lack of communication on our part. The kids either just didn't listen to us or didn't want to hear what we were telling them. For example, you may have seen my posts on creating and faithfully using an "Internet Persona" online, to maintain your privacy and security. Particularly on message boards, which are rarely private or secure. I told my kids about that long before they ever saw a computer, cell phone, etc., outside of our house. And after I ran "The Pit" (the PC Pitstop Forum) for 4 years, they had frequently heard me talk about that in minute detail. Did they listen? Yeah, plenty of times. Did they take my advice? Uhhh... No. Nor did I actually think they would either.

Years later, they both told me they wished they had listened and taken my advice.
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Please use a 2x4.
 
Axel Slingerland said:
In the case of my kids, it certainly wasn't a lack of communication on our part. The kids either just didn't listen to us or didn't want to hear what we were telling them. For example, you may have seen my posts on creating and faithfully using an "Internet Persona" online, to maintain your privacy and security. Particularly on message boards, which are rarely private or secure. I told my kids about that long before they ever saw a computer, cell phone, etc., outside of our house. And after I ran "The Pit" (the PC Pitstop Forum) for 4 years, they had frequently heard me talk about that in minute detail. Did they listen? Yeah, plenty of times. Did they take my advice? Uhhh... No. Nor did I actually think they would either.

Years later, they both told me they wished they had listened and taken my advice.
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Kind of like a Bible quote about teaching your children the way to go and when they're older they will return to it, "something", like that. Like us, I'm sure you've heard more than once, "You were right".

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