I enter a popular burger shop that has a ‘coffee’ attachment and stand near the register behind another customer currently being served…. and wait a bit… and wait some more…
Her: You want medium coffee? (Handing me one she just made as I entered)
Me: No, I haven’t ordered anything yet
Her: Oh um… Goes back to serving first person
It seems to be the formula for customer service these days…
Me: Can I have the dozen assorted and a latte please?
Him: What?
I needed to get some suspension work done on my bike, the Suzuki 250F across has done 50,000kms and was well due for a new kit in the front shocks.
I was about to get this done at my local service place along with the big engine service, when I happened upon a professional suspension place, and Izzy told me he would be happy to do a special deal.
While getting serviced, the forks went down to suspensions-r-us where the kit was put in and the springs replaced. All tuned up for me, customised and done right.
I now have “the best suspension for a 250 Suzuki in Victoria” and how can I argue, it is wonderful to ride, pulls up great, turns effortlessly and rides over those nasty speed bumps unnoticed.
Thanks Izzy.
Contact him at www.suspensionsrus.com.au or Phone 03 5998-1021
What a liberty…
The Connex group who has the primary contract for running metropolitan railways services here in Melbourne, after months of discussing options on how to ferry more passengers, after amending their timetables to help just a little, who back-stepped on rejecting bicycles on trains, who haven’t yet delivered on their promise to remove seats and call commuters land sardines, have now come up with a brilliant plan to make rail commuting a wondrous thing…
They are going to change the seat covers.
Yes, bright new seat covers to some 43,000 seats are going to make the conditions better. No more sitting on torn seats, or ones with holes, they will now be comfortable, at least to those who can actually get a seat, we still have many more standing-sardine commuters yet to satisfy. Perhaps some new floor coverings for those on their feet?
I reluctantly caved in today and did the iTunes and Quicktime update that the Adobe update software has been bugging me about for a while now.
Big downloads later and some screen refreshes, all the software that I never use updated.
The updater asked if I wanted to restart, thanks Adobe, this is why I upgraded to Vista so I didn’t have to restart after every application update, and since I am in the middle of doing other things, no I don’t want to restart thanks. Cancel is my option (what ever happened to Yes and No answers to simple questions?), and off goes the program, checking for other updates…
What? Didn’t we just go through this?
Oh yeah, I forgot, another reminder about installing Safari 3.1.1.
No, I don’t want this software, I have unchecked it before, I have IE and I have Firefox thanks, I don’t need another 23Mb of unused crap on my hard disk that I will eventually need to update.
But what got me even more today was the description of this item (See Pic).
OK, looks a little broken, and if they can’t make a read-about-me text file work in their recently updated updater then how can the application be trusted?
Look Apple, I don’t want this program, I don’t even want iTunes, I need quicktime only because I have a great olympus camera that records in mov format.
Like the DOJ said to Microsoft, “The People don’t want all these other things included or else you will deemed to be anti-competitive”!
How can one company get away with this when another can not, and has already been convicted and sentenced for doing exactly the same thing?
So now I uncheck the Safari item, the Install button goes gray leaving me with just the ‘Quit’ option. Apple, please add another option for me…
‘Leave Me Alone’ – Save my options and my preferences and close the program so that I am never bothered by your application based spam again please. Is that too much to ask?
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