Out of the Blue [Aug 19, 2014, 09:17 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
I got a huge surprise automatic bill from DirecTV with an early termination fee,
in spite of already establishing I would not be hit with one. I had to call and
clear up the error, which they were going to be far more relaxed about remedying
than they were about causing, so I crabbed until they got a sense of urgency
clearing this up. It makes me feel cynical to suspect they may have been just
hoping I wouldn't notice, but it does strike me that companies seem much more
prone to making financial errors that favor them than ones that favor us.
R.I.P.: Don Pardo dead, longtime NBC announcer.
R.I.P.: Don Pardo dead, longtime NBC announcer.
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That was amusing. My grandmother just used to shoot them with a .22 rifle. Of course, she used to shoot birds she didn't want on the feeders as well. I never understood why it was OK to feed one group of wild creatures but not another.
Don't get me wrong, squirrels caused $4k worth of damage to my roof in NY. I used to blow them off the power lines with a pressure hose to keep them away from my house after that. (We lived in town, or I would have been using a .22 as well...) But I never put out food hoping to entice one group of animals over another.
Don't get me wrong, squirrels caused $4k worth of damage to my roof in NY. I used to blow them off the power lines with a pressure hose to keep them away from my house after that. (We lived in town, or I would have been using a .22 as well...) But I never put out food hoping to entice one group of animals over another.
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