I Hate...

Buses

It has been a long time since I updated this blog and I am busy with 100 different things so I will keep this short.

I hate buses. Every single time I am on a bus one of three things happens or a combination of them all.

1. I get sick
2. I get tired
3. I get angry

This weekend was no different. I took a greyhound bus on Friday from Boston to NYC and then a different bus from NYC to New Jersey. That was a wonderful 6 or 7 hours on a bus. I had a horrible headache and just felt all around awful.

After a wonderful two days in NYC I had to do the same thing. Get back on the bus. Only this time the driver must have had some sort of problem because it was START STOP START STOP START STOP. Before we got to out of Manhattan I was already nauseous.

The reason I liked taking buses was that I could basically turn off my brain and a few hours later I would arrive at my destination. Now after some crazy fucker went and beheaded his seatmate I have to sit on the bus like a paranoid weirdo checking to make sure the people surrounding me do not have knives or guns or even combs.

I move in 5 days so I am assuming a lot of things will annoy me and give me motivation to write more. Peace!

PS: I CANNOT FUCKING INDENT THIS FUCKING LIST SO THAT THE 1, 2, and 3 are not in the FUCKING PICTURE. GAHHHH FUCKING INTERNETS

Hand Stamps

We have all been there. You are amped up to go to a bar, club or concert. You spend hours (or in my case five-ish minutes) getting dressed and making yourself look your best. Once you arrive to your place of destination you realize that to get in they are going to check your ID and then are going to put a stamp on you. NIGHT RUINED!

Technology has come a long long way in the past 20 years and yet the only thing these venues can think to do is brand their patrons with ink that will inevitably stay with them for days to come. It is ridiculous that I wash my hands three, four, maybe ten times and yet the ink still will not budge.

The next time you go to a place that brands you I want you to look them right square in the eye and tell them that I say there must be a better way. Then steal their stamper and run.

*Picture shown is my hand the day after a branding. I have already washed my hands at least six times.

General Motors

Let me first start off by saying I really do not know that much about General Motors aside from the fact that I grew up in a town next to a huge GM factory. I always resented the fact that employees at GM could make something like 30 dollars an hour to sit on an assembly line and do virtually nothing all day. Not only did the companies culture seem to make it easy to coast they also made it appear like they were better then everyone else. Everyone from Janesville always stuck their noses up at people from Beloit and I for one was thrilled to hear the Janesville plant was closing its doors. Do I feel badly for the people who have worked there for 30+ years and have no future to fall back on? Sure of course I do but while they were working for the past 30 years did they feel at all bad for the people living in Beloit who saw almost all of their industrial and manufacturing plants close down or get out sourced? NO.

Ok this is dragging on, lets ramp up to a quote I saw a few days ago from some executive at GM. I am paraphrasing here but essentially he said that GM is not making enough money to be able to research and innovate and that is why we have not seen a huge breakthrough from gasoline based cars. I literally wanted to crawl through my computer screen and rip this guys throat out. Seriously they have not innovated because of what now? What about the past 20 fucking years when they were pulling in money hand over fist? Especially 10 years ago when their stock was hovering around 100 points.

I see the automotive industry in much the same way I see the mobile phone market circa 2 years ago. Every year each manufacturer puts out its new car which is pretty much the same as the year before with a couple added toys and sometimes some new bells and whistles and they invest millions in some ridiculous marketing campaign to tell the public that this is the best car ever built. Publicly they say they are making more fuel efficient cars all the while they are behind closed doors doing handshake deals with big oil and could really care a less if the price of gas increases. The only reason they are starting to care now is because gas is finally to a price where Americans are unable to afford to drive let alone buy new vehicles.

What I am waiting for is for is an explosive new product that is going to force competition and innovation much the way Apple and its iPhone has done to the mobile market. Lets be honest here and admit that if Apple and Google didn’t jump headfirst into the mobile market these other companies would have continued on every year making subtle changes in order to dupe its customers into thinking it was being innovative.

What is next for the Automotive market? Who is going to step up and take down all of the giants of the industry? I for one cannot wait to find out.

Finally to GM, I do not feel the least bit sorry for your company failing. Greed is a bad drug my friends, maybe next time you will continue to build and enhance your product instead of putting more money in the pocket of your executives.

Enterprise Rent-A-Car

Sorry for the delay in things I hate everyone. I knew it was only a matter of time before something or someone would set me off.

This story begins on a rainy day about two months ago when I decided that I would be proactive and get ready for my upcoming trip to Atlantic City by scheduling a rental from Enterprise Rent-A-Car. After shopping online for the best deal I found that the Enterprise near the airport was much cheaper ($15 dollars per day compared to $52 dollars per day) then the Enterprise next to my house. I had already been fucked over by the same place the month prior because apparently to get this sweet deal you have to be flying into Logan Airport PLUS you cannot be a Massachusetts resident. Anyways this time was different because my friend Brandon was coming to visit and he is from Wisconsin. The only problem I could foresee was that he is not yet 25 and thus may incur a penalty of some sort. I called customer service on Wednesday and told them the story (a friend of mine is coming into Logan, he is not 25 but he isn’t going to drive and therefore as long as we show a boarding pass can we rent the car for the weekend, etc) to which they responded Y.E.S. Sunday morning we rent a Zipcar and travel what seems like forever to get out to this piece of shit car rental shop in the middle of nowhere. After they giving them my last name they inform me that they do not have a reservation under that name and perhaps I booked with a different location. On top of that they are sold out of cars for the day and tell me to try the Alamo down the street. I was furious as I had literally JUST talked to the customer service people a few days beforehand and they assured me everything was fine. Instead of consoling me and saying they would give me a discount at their other rental store they instead scolded me for being a Massachusetts resident and trying to rent from them EVEN THOUGH MY FRIEND FLEW IN FROM WISCONSIN.

Two things piss me off about this. 1) If you are a Mass resident you get royally fucked in this deal. Why is it that you can rent cars all day long for $15 dollars to people visiting but if a resident wants a car you have to bend over and pay $52 OR MORE? It is simply unfair practice in my opinion. 2) They were the ones who lost my reservation and yet they did not compensate me whatsoever for it. I have some idea of what may have happened. It is slightly possible that I entered my last name wrong but they did not offer to look it up by phone number or first name + reservation time, etc OR perhaps if you input your name and you have a Massachusetts address they automatically delete the reservation without telling you. Either way that is a total dick move by them.

Next time I need to rent a car I will seriously think twice before I go to Enterprise. “We’ll pick you up” as long as you aren’t a resident of the state we are renting to you from. FUCKERS

Cheesecake Factory

Today’s service at the Cheesecake Factory has set me off in unexplainable ways that only writing a blog can sooth. Honestly, I love the food at Cheesecake factory, granted I always get the same thing and it is ridiculously expensive for what you get. Every time I go which is 2-3 times per month I order a Blackened Chicken Sandwich and fries. On the menu it says the sandwich comes with Lettuce, Red Onions, Tomatoes, Cheese and Spicy Mayo. The last THREE times I have ordered this sandwich in different ways. The first time it was “hi i would like to order the Blackened Chickened sandwich without onion, tomatoes and mayo”; The second time was “hello there I would like the Blackened Chicken Sandwich with only lettuce and cheese” and tonight’s gem was “good evening I would like to order the Blackened Chicken Sandwich with only lettuce and cheese, please make sure they don’t put mayo on the sandwich”. As you can probably guess all three times I have received a sandwich with fucking mayo on it. The story should stop there but NO it gets better. All three times I have been told by the wait staff that it is not actually mayo on the sandwich but rather a spicy sauce which is why the kitchen screws it up. WELL WHY THE FUCK WRITE SPICY MAYO ON THE MENU THEN?

Today’s monumental third screw up was special because I ordered over the phone, picked up my food and walked my happy ass home before I realized mayo was on the sandwich. Missy looked scared as I felt my blood pressure rise before I yelled “FUCK IT IM GOING BACK”. I felt a little better after an apology and free bread and butter but seriously I don’t think my heart will survive another mistake by them.


Congratulations Cheesecake Factory for making my head explode!