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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.

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Re: Squirrel
Aug 19, 2014, 15:04

jdreyer

Re: Squirrel Aug 19, 2014, 15:04

Aug 19, 2014, 15:04

jdreyer

Agent.X7 wrote on Aug 19, 2014, 14:35:
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.

You could use an air rifle with lead pellets.

Also, did you ever wonder what happened to those squirrels she shot? You thought that was chicken flavor in your soup?

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