Jiffy Lube SUUUUUUUUCKS!!!!!!!!!
get what i sent to the stupid jiffy lube website!
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This store is probably the worse customer service orientated location I have ever been at. I rolled in and was behind 2 cars at 2:30pm. I finally left the place at 4:30 after watching the employees shut down the store right after I arrived because they "hadn't had a break all day". It seems that if they could live up to the “jiffy” part of the business name, they would have been able to keep the store open and customers happy. I watched 3 people come in and ask for an oil change and each time the person behind the counter gave them a different excuse as to why they were shut down in the middle of a workday. Once it was due to the computer, once it was due to the oil bin being full and one guy got the real reason, "we need a lunch break". Two of those folks said they had been here before in the middle of the day and it was closed then too…

The fiasco continued as I was trying to pay. The oily fingered smelly worker munching on a half eaten corn dog somehow locked up the “cashier” computer while I was trying to finally pay and leave. My credit card was passed thru the machine 5 or 6 times while the screen was locked. 10 minutes later I was walking him thru how to restart the whole computer. A customer….showing the guy how to restart the cashier station….So after it booted back up, he tried to run my card thru again and this time the cashier station said my card was declined. We did this twice. Declined both times. Afterthought, I figured there was some other process that had to run to make the cashier station recognize the credit card swipe or something…anyway, after all the hassle of a simple oil change, and just to get out of there, I wrote a check. And not once was I offered the $3 donation for membership to the special club getting me a $7 dollar discount, but I figured I would just try to end this bad experience and cut my losses hoping that I at least got a professional oil change.

Today, I look at my bank account and lo and behold the $52 charge for the "service" was on my account taken thru the credit card. So now Jiffy Lube not only has my $52 from my card but also a check for the same amount. I'm going to call the store this morning and try to explain what happened, but after this experience, I'm not too sure anyone will even understand what I'm talking about.

Needless to say, I will be doing my own oil changes from now on.

And maybe it was my screwup, but I thought I looked in the store finder part of this site for zip 98045 (North Bend?) and it didn't return any store. I looked on the map and zoomed around where the place is, but it wasn't there...hey, maybe this was just a bad dream and there really isn't a store there....

What th...

Wonder how much that cost?

So apparently a study at Vanderbilt has discovered that roaches learn better in the evening and at night and can't learn things in the morning. This brings up a few ... oh let's call them bewilderments.

When did we learn that roaches "learn" things??? The article said researchers (as opposed to the retarring crew outside i suppose) "taught" roaches to like peppermint scent which they usually just HATE by bribing them with sugar water more than they like vanilla scent which is "one of their favorite smells". Had no idea roaches were so particular.

So, knowing this, the "researchers" trained hundreds of cockroaches at different times throughout a single day...stop. THIS job i want. ok...go. and figured out that the ones from later in the day could "remember the association" between the peppermint and the sugar water for several days and the ones in the morning couldn't even get it right.

This, they say, shows that they are controlled by their biological clock...well duh, they get stepped on during the day so why bother doing anything but sleeping? Where's my grant?

THEN the leader of this little adventure into the bizarre said the study could provide insight into links between biological clocks, memory and learning for other animals and humans. Lemme see, humans learn better during the day cause the roaches aren't around grossing out the humans. Then, at night humans can't learn anything cause of the internet.

Wonder what cows think about all day.

WHERE’S MY GRANT!!!

fin

i knew Texas was big!!

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA’s Dawn spacecraft rocketed away Thursday toward an unprecedented double encounter in the asteroid belt.
Scientists hope the mission will shed light on the early solar system by exploring the two largest bodies in the belt between Mars and Jupiter: an asteroid named Vesta and a dwarf planet the size of Texas named Ceres.

Bear Grylls - Man vs. Wild Drinking Game

No one asked, so here it is! (for my entertainment only)

Bear eats something gross - take a shot
Bear eats something gross that's still alive - take a shot
Bear tells a story about a previous party where he's surviving - take a shot
They died - take two
Bear complains about his situation - take 3 shots (this is rare)
Bear jumps into freezing water - take a shot
Bear disrobes - take a shot, then sit back and enjoy the show. ;)
Bear builds a "temporary" shelter that you would live in for a month - take a shot
Bear talks about missing his family - wipe the tear away then take a shot
Bear crosses a ravine/body of water - take a shot
Bear uses something more than once (Multi-tasker!) - take two shots

Now, if you just wanna get trashed and need a reason, watch "Survivorman" and take a drink every time he whines about his frikkin cameras. Wine works best for this game...heh.

Fw:

Hannah And Me

What I Look At Nine Hours A Day

i can send pictures here from my cell phone...holy crap.

So I see where the UN has warned about the global impact if there is a sudden increase in the consumption of the materials necessary to create the bio-fuel that will help prevent global warming by decreasing the amount of crap from emissions.....impacts like like increasing the cost of food to the poor...that figures, huh? People who have nothing to do with driving around like idiots get screwed outta nowhere...g, that has a familiar ring to it.

Solution (cause I don't bring a problem without an answer):
Let the greenhouse effect warm up the planet some more. Say, until Canada feels like Kansas. Then there'll be plenty of room to grow more coconuts and corn for fuel.

Oh it's going to be so hot....they're called AIR CONDITIONERS people!! Run by solar panels sucking up that good old sunlight that we now have a lot more of!

Problem solved.

Thank you and goodnight.