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Talk about a totally f@cked up day in every way.
My 24 hours began by having my new site www.anasci.org down. When I finally figured out why, the reason is that the server took the site down because they said I was spamming! Their reason was a mass email I sent all my members there. So, you want to tell me that if I send a mass email to my own members who agreed to receive emails when they signed up, I am spamming? And then you take the site down without any warning or speaking to me about it?? I am going to rip their heads of on Monday when I'll speak to them!
Then, I opened a letter. It's from a shipping company. I've been using this shipping company for one of my businesses for over 5 years. I ship about $8,000 worth of shipping fees per month. So, several months ago I asked them to give me a discount because of the volume I do.
They said that I cannot get a discount unless I have a credit account with them. I told them I don't need a credit account, and I don't want one, as I am fully liquid. All I need is the discount. They say they can't do it unless I have a credit account.
So I apply for a credit account. Many weeks go past for them to tell me that they can't approve it as the warehouse where the business is run out of is in a different state than where the head office and as such the company is registered to!!!
So, I apply for a credit account using another company of mine, that is registered and operates out of the same state. Again, much time goes past and I get a rejection letter because I didn't write in the appropriate field the industry the company is in!
So, after much cursing, I send the form back with the industry filled in.
Keep in mind, all this started back in September last year! All for a discount on shipping!
So, I get this letter today which says that the 'credit' account is approved, but I have to deposit $8,000 in THEIR account before it's actived. WTF????
Number one, I don't want or need a credit account. All I want is a discount for shipping more than 10 times the volume of what most of their customers do (according to them). And now they FINALLY give me a 'credit' account, where I have to put money into it?? WTF is that?
Can you imagine the frustration and the cursing, since they've been screwing me around like this for so long, for something so simple???
Anyway, day goes on, I go to a shop to buy a fridge. I don't like to wait days for delivery, so I hired a truck.
I drive the truck to the shop, and I buy the fridge. The tosser worker comes out with the fridge and I tell him to take it to the green truck. He just leaves the fridge there and goes back in. I tell him that I need his help and he just shrugs and goes back in!
I try to contain myself, so I take the fridge to the truck and lift it myself. I slip and the fuckin' thing falls from up high crashing on the pavement! I lost it!
I storm back in the shop, I grab the manager and I flip out. I tell him I want a new fridge because it's their fault since they didn't help me with it. He says that it's not their responsability if I dropped the fridge. I am so fuckin' angry and I tell him that his tosser worker should have come out with me as I requested and he didn't do his job properly and it's his responsability. Big scene in the shop, with a large audience now. The manager is adamant that he won't replace the fridge.
I am raging now, so I look him straight in the eye and I tell him that if he doesn't replace the fridge right there and then, I'll run my fist though his head! He looks at me, says he has to call his big boss. He does, 1 minute later comes out with a new fridge. They load the fridge up in the truck and it's all good now.
I drive the truck to another shop to buy something else, big ass truck, I reverse, and I don't look up, and I destroy their roof gutter, right in front of their security guard. Now I have a bill for a roof gutter for another shop.
Supposed to go to dinner with my girl and my parents to this restaurant where you have to book weeks in advance to get a table.
By now, I am already running late, but I still have to take truck back. I do, and pick up my car that I left there. Within 1 minute, I have a flat tyre. I curse, get all dirty and change the tyre and I finally get home. I am now 1 hour late for the dinner.
I quickly have a shower, get ready and jump in another car. I get to dinner almost 2 hours late!
Have dinner, nothing that great, and I head home. I am driving a Lotus Esprit, special edition that only 30 have ever been built in the world, mine being the only one in this color of this special edition in the country. I've had it since new, the car is a concourse winning car. It's worth more than any sum of money as it's irreplaceble.
Idiot in front of me stops on the highway, doing an illegal turn. I stop too. 2 seconds later, I hear this tyre screeching and I get rear ended. I was hit so hard, my car was thrown forward more than 10 metres (35 feet) - I measured it later. Got a good dose of whiplash and my neck is hurting me.
Stupid bitch driving a Range Rover wasn't paying attention. The Range Rover had the front bumper, headlights and bonnet destroyed. Her radiator blew up.
Mine, when you look at it, it just has some black marks on it and that's it. Very strong because of the kevlar. But, on closer inspection, the rear aerofoil got pushed back and ripped the kevlar bumper and pushed the exhaust forward, which is bent in it's brackets. The rear bumper, rear plynth, rear lights, rear aerofoil and rear lip have to be replaced. Exhaust is knackered and still don't know what's fully happened underneath. So far, just from this superficial examination, the bill will be in excess of $20,000.
Yeah, insurance will pay, but my prize winning car will not be original anymore because of a stupid scrag! And most likely I'll have to wait for weeks for the parts to arrive from Europe.
I hardly slept all night, as I was relieving the accident. See, if this would have happened to the Lambo or the Ferrari, I wouldn't care as they are cars that can be replaced as they are everywhere. But this Esprit cannot be replaced. This car is staying with me for life as it's so rare. I constantly get huge offers on it and I always knock them back. And now a stupid bitch wrecked it! And someone tell me, why do people have 4WDs in big congested cities, where the closest dirt track is hundreds of miles away???
That was my day. Which also happened to be my birthday.
My 24 hours began by having my new site www.anasci.org down. When I finally figured out why, the reason is that the server took the site down because they said I was spamming! Their reason was a mass email I sent all my members there. So, you want to tell me that if I send a mass email to my own members who agreed to receive emails when they signed up, I am spamming? And then you take the site down without any warning or speaking to me about it?? I am going to rip their heads of on Monday when I'll speak to them!
Then, I opened a letter. It's from a shipping company. I've been using this shipping company for one of my businesses for over 5 years. I ship about $8,000 worth of shipping fees per month. So, several months ago I asked them to give me a discount because of the volume I do.
They said that I cannot get a discount unless I have a credit account with them. I told them I don't need a credit account, and I don't want one, as I am fully liquid. All I need is the discount. They say they can't do it unless I have a credit account.
So I apply for a credit account. Many weeks go past for them to tell me that they can't approve it as the warehouse where the business is run out of is in a different state than where the head office and as such the company is registered to!!!
So, I apply for a credit account using another company of mine, that is registered and operates out of the same state. Again, much time goes past and I get a rejection letter because I didn't write in the appropriate field the industry the company is in!
So, after much cursing, I send the form back with the industry filled in.
Keep in mind, all this started back in September last year! All for a discount on shipping!
So, I get this letter today which says that the 'credit' account is approved, but I have to deposit $8,000 in THEIR account before it's actived. WTF????
Number one, I don't want or need a credit account. All I want is a discount for shipping more than 10 times the volume of what most of their customers do (according to them). And now they FINALLY give me a 'credit' account, where I have to put money into it?? WTF is that?
Can you imagine the frustration and the cursing, since they've been screwing me around like this for so long, for something so simple???
Anyway, day goes on, I go to a shop to buy a fridge. I don't like to wait days for delivery, so I hired a truck.
I drive the truck to the shop, and I buy the fridge. The tosser worker comes out with the fridge and I tell him to take it to the green truck. He just leaves the fridge there and goes back in. I tell him that I need his help and he just shrugs and goes back in!
I try to contain myself, so I take the fridge to the truck and lift it myself. I slip and the fuckin' thing falls from up high crashing on the pavement! I lost it!
I storm back in the shop, I grab the manager and I flip out. I tell him I want a new fridge because it's their fault since they didn't help me with it. He says that it's not their responsability if I dropped the fridge. I am so fuckin' angry and I tell him that his tosser worker should have come out with me as I requested and he didn't do his job properly and it's his responsability. Big scene in the shop, with a large audience now. The manager is adamant that he won't replace the fridge.
I am raging now, so I look him straight in the eye and I tell him that if he doesn't replace the fridge right there and then, I'll run my fist though his head! He looks at me, says he has to call his big boss. He does, 1 minute later comes out with a new fridge. They load the fridge up in the truck and it's all good now.
I drive the truck to another shop to buy something else, big ass truck, I reverse, and I don't look up, and I destroy their roof gutter, right in front of their security guard. Now I have a bill for a roof gutter for another shop.
Supposed to go to dinner with my girl and my parents to this restaurant where you have to book weeks in advance to get a table.
By now, I am already running late, but I still have to take truck back. I do, and pick up my car that I left there. Within 1 minute, I have a flat tyre. I curse, get all dirty and change the tyre and I finally get home. I am now 1 hour late for the dinner.
I quickly have a shower, get ready and jump in another car. I get to dinner almost 2 hours late!
Have dinner, nothing that great, and I head home. I am driving a Lotus Esprit, special edition that only 30 have ever been built in the world, mine being the only one in this color of this special edition in the country. I've had it since new, the car is a concourse winning car. It's worth more than any sum of money as it's irreplaceble.
Idiot in front of me stops on the highway, doing an illegal turn. I stop too. 2 seconds later, I hear this tyre screeching and I get rear ended. I was hit so hard, my car was thrown forward more than 10 metres (35 feet) - I measured it later. Got a good dose of whiplash and my neck is hurting me.
Stupid bitch driving a Range Rover wasn't paying attention. The Range Rover had the front bumper, headlights and bonnet destroyed. Her radiator blew up.
Mine, when you look at it, it just has some black marks on it and that's it. Very strong because of the kevlar. But, on closer inspection, the rear aerofoil got pushed back and ripped the kevlar bumper and pushed the exhaust forward, which is bent in it's brackets. The rear bumper, rear plynth, rear lights, rear aerofoil and rear lip have to be replaced. Exhaust is knackered and still don't know what's fully happened underneath. So far, just from this superficial examination, the bill will be in excess of $20,000.
Yeah, insurance will pay, but my prize winning car will not be original anymore because of a stupid scrag! And most likely I'll have to wait for weeks for the parts to arrive from Europe.
I hardly slept all night, as I was relieving the accident. See, if this would have happened to the Lambo or the Ferrari, I wouldn't care as they are cars that can be replaced as they are everywhere. But this Esprit cannot be replaced. This car is staying with me for life as it's so rare. I constantly get huge offers on it and I always knock them back. And now a stupid bitch wrecked it! And someone tell me, why do people have 4WDs in big congested cities, where the closest dirt track is hundreds of miles away???
That was my day. Which also happened to be my birthday.
