Crazy Craiglist People, wtf...?

I know that CL can be like taking a shot in the dark, but sometimes you find really cool stuff. So my sister found some teak furniture that looks really great in the pictures, so we arranged to go see it. The lady she speaks to on the phone is all, you aren't that far at all, well we google maped it and DAMN! We were like half an hour away.

So, we make the trip, and they have a gate, so we call, and no answer, leave messages, no answer. Finally, there's some dude wandering around outside the house so we like flag him down and he clicks the gate open for us. And like, seriously, he doesn't say anything, we're like uh we're here to look at the furniture... He's like 'oh, over there' and points then lights up a ciggy and disappears.

Fine, ok whatever, it's like nice furniture and all, but it reeeeeeks like fresh stain or something, I mean I didn't really think that you were supposed to stain teak, but besides that. Then, we look closer, it has like major flaws, and the stain is still kind of sticky. This lady comes out and is like, well I am selling this for my daughter, and we're like, um... ok... She won't take less than what it was posted for, even though we had asked about flexiblity on the price before going out there. We're like this is just weird, and we're still looking at the furniture at this point, and notice it's not smooth like teak should be, and some of the boards are warped. So, we're like, we're out, forget it. I can smell the CL scam now... time to depart.

Well, then she won't click the gate to let us out. We're waiting to get out and she's just doing whatever... I'm like clicky clicky... click... hello? And she's like well I can go cheaper, how about this or that? We're like no, clicky clicky... let us out, she's totally still trying to get us to buy it, I'm like CLICKY CLICKY NOW! And she's like oh whatever, and finally clicks us out.

I swear, I thought I was gonna have to dial 9-1-1 and be like, we're trapped because we went to look at furniture on CL... ugh... lesson learned, do research ahead of time about what you're buying, and #2, bring mace and running shoes or some big muscular dudes.

Are you seriously arguing with me barista?

So... I went to Starbucks this morning, and I order: iced, vente, decaf, americano, light room. So I pay and I hear the screechy barista call out some random americano with light ice, and I'm all, um, I ordered a decaf with light room, nothing about ice. And she starts arguing with me, well it says light ice on the cup she says. It so does not... it says 'LiteR' which apparently in her world means light ice. So then she proceeds to argue with me, and I'm like forget it I have to get back to work and I don't have time to argue with her. So I have this like half filled cup of coffee because there's like a quarter of it not filled up with ice nor water, she asks me if that's enough room, and I'm like, it's fine. She's all, no, tell me what you want, and I'm like, I want my coffee, I have to go. She's like NO, just tell me what you want, it says light ice on the cup. I'm like, just give me my coffee so I can go, she seriously won't give me my coffee... I finally reach over the counter and I'm like, please give me my coffee it's fine, I have to go. She's like fine... ok... you can just tell me what you want... God almighty woman, don't argue wtih a pregnant woman who can't have caffiene in the morning when you're obviously wrong. Anyway, I took a picture of the cup so maybe you guys can tell me if it says light ice and I'm a total bitch.

Is AT&T that stupid? Yes my friend... yes they are...

OK so I'm trying to pay the AT&T bill online so I don't get charged this $5 fee any more for paying on the phone, and being anti-checks when it comes to paying I try to do everything online. So, we already have paperless billing, I can login and see my bill, great right? No... you can only login and SEE the bill, you cannot PAY the bill. To pay the bill you have to login using an account number, which I hear is on the paper bill. Well, we do NOT get the paper bill.

So I make Mike call, and they refuse to give him the account number, they're like we can send you a duplicate bill, and he's all, well we have paperless billing. The lady then says we can charge you $5 and take the payment over the phone, perhaps, she forgot that he had called to avoid this fee and just pay the bill online... So round and round it goes...

I want to pay my bill online, which requires the account number, which I do not have since I have paperless billing and the account number is on the paper bill, they refuse to give me the account number because it's 'policy' but still want me to pay the bill for $5. My summary of the whole experience is that they simply want their $5 from us people that choose to go paperless.

In the end we let them send us the paper bill, hell, it's the only way apparently that I am able to get the account number which I need to establish online bill-pay. I hate AT&T and if there was another option besides Comcast for internet I would take it in a heartbeat.