I'm just glad I don't work at the Walmart where you're returning the salad spinner. :0)

You go girl!!!

You are just lucky you did not try to return it to the walmart where we were trying to get a job for DH. We figured instead of a Walmart greeter he could be a Walmart Grumper. He would answer inquiries with remarks like "PLIERS ARE ARE THE HARDWARD SECTION YOU DUMBHEAD!!" or "NEXT TIME YOU COME MAKE UP YOUR MIND WHAT YOU WANT BEFORE YOU COME SO YOU WON'T ASK ME SO MANY TOM FOOL QUESTIONS!!"

Di - you rock girlfriend!! Thanks for the late night smile! Please let us know how Walmart went, ok?

This is great~~ another lol at the beginning of the day.

I hate returning stuff. Not the actual return, but the long wait in line that invariably precedes the transaction. I figure my time is worth about $40 an hour... that's less than my office salary, but 40 times more than my home pay. Any way, I'd look at that label and allow 6 minutes for removal (cost of item $4 = $4 of time). If the sticky didn't come off, I'd turn the spinner into a plant pot. In other words, the item has to cost more than $40 for me to be willing to stand in line for an hour to return it!

Oh, Di... if you think gender bias is bad now, just wait until you're another 30 years older and get the gender + AGE bias! Very few little old men are considered [or treated] to be as helpless and incompetent as any female with white hair and wrinkles. Sheesh, know-it-all adolescents are mature in comparison.

tinnitus here too.I've had it for 15 years and it's no surprise considering all the music I've had in my ears for longer than I can remember. I'm used to the crickets now and rarely do they annoy me..kind of like a ticking clock. Sometimes you can't even hear it.

You know I think I saw something on TV about a new medication for tintinitis. I had that once and it drove me batty. It went away after a while.

For tinnitus, before thinking of meds get your ear canal professionally cleaned. You won't find gold, but you may be really grossed out with what is in there.

di~ you are so funny. My monitor and keyboard are now clean!!!!!!!

Jan

Tinnitus? So that's why I keep hearing cricket noises in my head,
ears, whatever. Thank goodness! I thought it was one of
those earwiggy things gnawing away at what little brain
matter I have left.

It can also be an indication of damaged hearing: my father suffered badly with his tinnitus, combined with partial deafness. The hardest thing, he said, was trying to filter out background sounds (such as music, in a restaurant) as well as filtering out the tinnitus hissing, so that he could follow the conversation.

We all managed, generally, to filter out a degree of background noise, but the additional tinnitus strain made it almost impossible for him to eat out anywhere with music.

You all have made my Saturday. I was feeling like the hardest person in
the world to get along with and now have had a good laugh and found people of a like mind.

Had to go into town yesterday,did'nt feel like getting out of bed much less go to town and yep to Wally world. My pet peeve is those #^*% squares of pills that each pill has to be dug out with a jack hammer. I had to get some benydryl caps. I looked at the box and thought of those nasty little pockets of pills and walked over to the pharmicist and told them my arthritic fingers refused to mess with them and if they wanted to sell them they could take them out of the package and put them in a bottle and go complain to the company that packaged them. To my surprise they complied without a murmer. I've felt like a monster ever since. Now i feel better.

Now i can have a lot of fun sometimes with these young whipper-snappers(have'nt heard that in a long time)that have the little ole lady syndrome. I will make slaves out of them while i'm in the store. "Can you hand me that can, it's just out of my reach (About 2" above me) and that bottle over there. I can't make up my mind do i want wood glue or gorrilla glue? On the one hand..........but on the other hand...........or maybe just plain Elmers glue." If i'm not in a hurry i can keep them tied up for 5 min.or more.

My DD is worse than i am. She makes a hobby of returning anything that has a flaw in it,if it only cost .50 and she loves to argue about unfair practices. She made an art of that when she was a teenager at home than found out it would work with people outside the family. LOL

You know I am thinking that there is a new job possibility here, something like flawed stuff returner. Someone who takes stuff back to the store for those of us who hate to do it. They could take half of the proceeds. Last time DH did it because he knew I wouldn't, it was only $20.

Yeah, there are professional shoppers, so professional returners makes sense. My co-worker would be great at either job. She loves to shop and can sweet talk anyone into taking an item back.

Di, if you're having balance problems as well, it might be labrinthitis.

di---you've got me doing belly-laughs! I would love to be a fly on the wall as you go through your daily rounds---

---I have crickets with a waterfall behind them...caused by the same malady Marda has...had some vintage Alan Parsons playing on my way to what's left of my job today---it was so fun, except for the little voice which kept saying, "You're gonna pay for the fun, lady!" Sheesh.
Get older. Get slower. Makes it harder to run from that little voice.....

Next time you have some kind of sticker glue on a purchase, why don't you squirt some lighter fluid on the sticker. Works for me every time. With real stubborn glue, maybe two applications--but it works.

They still make lighter fluid?

Suzy, they make lighter fluid and you can still find flints and even wicks...look in an oldfashioned grocery/pharmacy near the snuff and roll-your-own papers...LOL I even bought 3 bottles of snuff 'cause they were such cute little fat brown bottes for mini-bouquets...josh

I have a friend who works at HD, consider the rest of her co-workers worthless, and always head to her for whatever I'm after. She was standing with 3 of them and all talking about furnace thermostats. Behind her, I said "Jeesh, you guys have a hard time figuring out what I need, now you're training a girl". She whipped around ready for a face off. Then hugged me and told the guys I was one of the good people.

No friends at Walmart, but wish I had your spunk. Bought a White IPOD because it had to be installed in my car..wanted black but they were out and I was on a mission. Exchanged the IPOD the next week and when the guy asked me why, I said it was a BD gift for my son but he wanted black. Guy looked right at me and said "Your son must be spoiled rotten". I just grabbed the new one and got out of there fast before he changed his mind about exchanging it.

The girl thing and construction also eludes me. Have always done it and my daughter too. We chuckle about watching guys take hours doing something so simple and listening to their complaining. Usually a few bets too on how long it takes for them to ask for a bandaide. I volunteer at the Habitat store (addictive), bosses have no qualms with any of us doing our jobs or what we are capable of. Greatfully, the majority of customers are wonderful too and have no problem asking this little old lady for help. We were sited as the best hardware store in the county. I love it there.