nothing changes

Tesco is now my most hated place to shop. Every weekend without fail, I will find something wrong with my bill AFTER I've paid it, which means I have to run all the way back in the opposite direction to their Customer Service counter to get my refund or make my complaint! There they will ask for the physical item that was overcharged and someone strolls back to the shelf to check (because they don't believe what you tell them). So what are the computers for?

Up front, I want to make it clear, it's not those few cents I'm after. It's that Tesco has infuriated me enough times that I'm not going to let them off the hook anymore. The stories are endless and whenever I'm at Customer Service, I often run into other infuriated customers there demanding their refunds because they've been overcharged or given the standard runaround. I've witnessed people raising their voices, shouting at the poor staff and banging their fists on the table. That's how infuriated they are! Yet their customer service has NEVER improved!

Tesco's main problem is the prices on the shelves DON'T match the barcoded one at the cash register. If you make that mistake once or twice, that's fine. But not week after week after week. Not only that, they're very fond of placing the promo pricing over a non-promo item so you think it's on promo, grab it and after it goes through checkout, you find you've been charged the normal price as that item happens to be placed right over the promo tag! Pretty sneaky, huh? But I gotcha, hahaha!

parrots!

You know what I hate most about reading blog comments? Most of the commenters are just parrots. Whatever the blogger says, the commenter will merely rephrase and repeat what they've said. They don't seem to have any opinion of their own or anything interesting to add.

If the blogger writes: I bought this new pink hairclip for my darling daughter. My daughter loved it so much she wouldn't let go of it. She loves everything pink. (shows picture of the lalakid)

Commenter 1: Yes, so nice! Your daughter looks so cute in the photo!

Commenter 2: So sweet, iLike!

Commenter 3: The pink hairclip looks very nice on your little model!

Commenter 4: I also like, I also want one, hahaha.

DUH! and double duh!

Talk about parrots and boring meaningless comments. Either:

• they don't have the vocab - everything is "nice", "cute", "okay", that's it
  
• they don't have any opinion and try too hard to be agreeable, or
• they go completely offtrack!

Don't believe me? Go read some local blogs (if you can find any in decent English, that is) and read the comments to a few posts. You will definitely see a pattern there. YAWN!

Mrs Perfect

In my blog hops, I'm still seeing posts about making NY resolutions. There's this mommy who says that after all that holiday binging, she's going to force herself to exercise for a half-hour daily to lose the weight she's gained. This statement sorta gets boring after you read it 200 times.

And yet this woman is so self-righteous she's always going on about how she plans to set everything right and do everything right and get her kids to be this and that. She had a whole, long to-do list for the holidays to set everything right with her poor kids. Like making them practise and revise for next year because they're not this or that enough. The poor kids are only in kindy and Grade 2, mind you!

From what she says, it seems like they've just GOT to get everything right. Right as in her way, the perfect way! Like she must get the perfect gifts ready to give to someone. Like she must learn Chinese so she can guide her children. Like she must exercise or she'll beat herself up. Like she must be a good wife and good mother and good blogger, duh! I don't know but she gives me the impression she tries too hard to be perfect!

And we know, nobody's perfect!

Happy New Year 2010!

Time sure flies, whether or not you're having fun. So you might as well have fun!

Happy New Year, everyone! Be safe. Don't drink and drive! You know the drill!