How I got screwed at Rite-Aid

Did they have video of you? I can't believe they would charge someone without evidence. However I had a similar experience: about a year ago, I got flu or cold I think real bad. walked into a drugstore (maybe rite-aid, maybe savon, near you, in Costa mesa) at adams & harbor. I hadn't washed my hair for a day or two, since I was sick. wearing casual clothes; nothing terribly scruffy. went directly to the cold aisle.

I'm the type who ALWAYS reads ingredients. I hate having things I dont need in cold medicines. Tylenol, for example is added to all but a few brands. (and it destroys your liver at near the max suggested dose).

well, anyway, I was taking my time reading the bottles and this heavyset young lady employee decided that I was about to steal some cold medicine. (she didn't say anything to me) but she hung around near me, watching me and doing busy work on shelves near me.

Hey, I'm a programmer, and don't need to steal anything. I'm sure I make X integer times her salary. Would be pretty stupid of me to, esp. with today's cameras anyway. But it was in a way wierd and somehow sad, pathetic or funny, to see this attitude among the drugstore's employees.

sorry about your problem.

you should have given them a hug.

I worked in a grocery store once upon a time and I had this one customer that his hair was so nasty I thought I saw flies buzzing about and the hair was moving on it's own. It was his comments that he made to another customer that peaked my interest. So I decided to watch him from a distance. I was working in the cash office/managers office, and I had a pretty good view of the isle that he went down. Come to find out, he stole a bottle of flea spray. I guess it was for his hair... Never did find that guy, I did call security, but he had disappeared by then.

I accept that it's not challenging and lacks the certain satisfaction when you can put one over on a more worthy opponent but it's still better - by far - than working.

:D

I've just been out for my lunchtime walk along the Thames Path and, at least in my imagination, drowned at least a hundred tourists by chucking them in the river. Mr Nice Guy is OUT.

you'll throw us in the river?

Okay, Neil. When we decide to visit, I'm holding you to your offer!

www.clown.com?

Have a few drinks...lose your website..

Amazing powers of perception TT,
Amazing.
*S*

Family website and domain,
I changed the passwords as part of an annual security binge.
The weekly beer binge was underway as well.
Not a problem to have the passwords resent,
except that I had changed the home email address to an account I had with the old cable company and don't have anymore.

Now I am quite proud of my website host as they will not dilvulge the information to me unless I can reclaim my old email account that passwords are being sent to or by killing the account by refusing to pay for it and starting over,
Alas, the few hundred hours of work the wife put into the site would be lost as well, and to say the least,, she would be quite P!ssed.

Don't drink and manage passwords.

I had just gotten into a project after a brief "bench period". I keep logged into MSN Messenger. So one afternoon, MSN messenger suddenly warns me that it is logging me off, as I had logged into another PC.
I remember that I had MSN messenger on my "bench pc" at my employer. So hastily, I change the password. It was one of those projects, where I attended 4-5 hours of meeting each day with 1-2 hours of white-board conversations.
I come home in the evening, and realize that my wife had actually come home during lunch and switched on our home desktop. It had automatically logged into MSN Messenger.

Then I discover to my horror that I had forgotten my hotmail password, and pretty soon I lock the account. I had messed up my secret question as well. After few emails with the MSN support, I was sad to realize that I had lost my hotmail account.

It was one of those nice email ids, without any special characters, just my firstname+lastname. After using it for so many years, I felt as though I had lost something dear to me. You would'nt believe - I was sad for atleast 2-3 days, and still am :-( when I think of the episode.

and nodding of the head in appreciation.

This is one of [i]the[/i] funniest "discussions" I've seen. Man did I have a good laugh. :^0

dang emoticons

whatsoever.

Things that will never happen.
http://tinyurl.com/nw3ay

Also, I think JD is getting [b]hammered [i]hard[/i][/b] by the Michigan weather tonight.

Oh man, that s*cks,
I feel your pain, I feel your pain,
I hope it comes back to you someday in some brilliant flash of inspiration.
Regards,

Oddly enough, we keep a flag up 24/7 under a light. Knew there was something about you I liked!

They covered the wind storm as it went through Wisconsin. Took out an 18 wheeler- laid it on its side. Clocked at like 70 mph as they went through.

Glad the only damage that you took was a broken pool umbrella and a shredded flag. Fortunately, you have a spare flag (so do we) and the umbrella can be fixed. I have been in 70 mph windstorms- could have been much worse.

Okay- now for the training tips. Go to www.the3day.org and go to "Support" and "Training Tips". Some great information there. Also try http://www.thewalkingsite.com/.

If you burn, sunscreen is a MUST. We use Bullfrog 45 SPF, otherwise the partner would fry like a strip of bacon. Re-apply every 2 hours, don't forget to cover the back of your neck and your ears. Be generous with the stuff. Bullfrog is especially good because it tends to stay put- it doesn't sweat into your eyes.

Since you are using sunscreen, you will also need to start using a good lotion to combat the drying effect. Curel works really well, doesn't have a bunch of fragrance, easy to find.

If you are already burned, use white vinegar to draw the sting out. I keep a spray bottle in the refrigerator. Very effective.

You may also experience odd red blotches on your legs. If it has been VERY hot, you are dealing with a combination of heat rash and "golfers vasculitis". I get it all the time. Hydrocortisone cream (buy the generic- you want 1% hydrocortisone) will relieve the heat rash, the vasculitis takes a couple of days. I'll get a pic of what you are looking for- sure to happen on the 18 mile on Saturday.

Didn't know that walking could be so complicated, did you? I know I didn't. Fortunately, I have had some great resources and a team that has been there, done that.

There was this cutie working the register, but no matter how much duct tape I used, she wouldn't co-operate......

on several occassions and never once met a Walmart greeter of any kind. Nope, not one.

it was only 92 yesterday. Not bad if your in the air conditioning with a fan blowing on you! I was actually COLD in my office and had to go outside a few times so I could get feeling back in my hands and feet! :D

He's now going to want to know the RIGHT way to go..... ;)

Do me a favour?

Keep that one to peer messaging! It's too hot to be gigglefitting all over the (90F) office today, babz.

GG

Someone please turn the oven off, I'm cooked already.....

:p

Depends on the order of the day.

Sorted, Minted, Pissed, Fu*ked, Kebab, Arrested.

Not so bad in this context ;-)

Rite-Aid qivvers in it's foundations. The news has been posted on TR - Help!

What were the items - any good?

NeverBusted said something funny, she laughed. What is your issue?

Your funny man,

What else would you class hijacking as then?

I'm from a country that had 'sponsored terrorism' via the US and others for many years. It only ended after the truly sad and unfortunate events of a few years back, when they woke up.

Edit - Typo

is that I don't see why you started this thread in the first place considering that the alleged incident was in 2003. You request in this - and your hugging thread - for mails from the peers. Do you have some need to receive some email?

However, if it makes you feel any better, I'm sure you were innocent of all charges and that the whole thing was a vile conspiracy by Ernst Stavro Blofeld.

I'm not going to mail this to you, though, because I think you need to get a life. You come over as what we call in the UK "Billy Nomates". I'm sure that you can work that out.

so it takes time to get back in the swing of things! ;\

Need to relearn some things and unlearn others.

For instance, after being together for 15 years, the best thing about a BJ was the 10 minutes of silence! ]:)

so by that rationale, if one uses the word 'hijack' that makes them a terrorist? Damn, I must be a terrorist, then. Sometimes, I even use the word 'bomb'. Sometimes, programs here bomb. And my kid likes those red, white and blue popsicles known as bomb pops. Maybe he's a terrorist, too.

Well, [b] REALLY [/b]!!!

Glad to see you back in the sewer with the rest of us!

Been a long time, babz.....!!

;)

GG

]:)

Though I do not understand why Tech posted a link to some good advice he so obviously isn't comprehending..
Aghhh,
Maybe its to show us that he knows where the water is and he's just not ready to take a drink.

validation? Do you want a group of people to say..'Oh, poor baby, you got screwed over'. Or validate your whole 'hugging' thing?

I don't think this is the right place to get what you need. Perhaps a healthcare professional can give you a hand.

Above we have references to the burger selling clown and to terrorism which reminds me of a story from my youth that I'd like to share.

In HS, a group of thugs that I called "The Kids I Grew Up With" were going about our business being obnoxious at McDonald's, when through happenstance we discovered that a 5-ft fiberglass Ronald wall decoration was not secured to the wall. We decided to remove the Ronald from the wall, brought him into a restroom stall, latched the door then climbed out over the partition. After going to the counter to get extra ketchup packets to explode outside the front doors, we left.

About an hour later, we called the restaurant and asked to speak to the manager. My friend said to him "If you ever want to see Ronald McDonald alive again, put $5000 in a paper bag and leave it in the trash bin near the picnic tables. If you call the cops, we'll kill Ronald" Outside the phone booth, we could all hear the manager screaming "You bastards! What did you do with him?" and then continuing with a litany of swears. It was hilarious.

Next time we went to McDonald's, Ronald was secured to the wall.

My problem is that I'm not really doing the miles and miles that you are - I only anticipate four or five a day, max, for quite a while - at least until it gets cooler. I also asked for a shoe that would be good for walking surfaces other than pavement as there are a lot of nice wooded trails and bridle paths near where I live so I had a specific couple of models in my mind. I think I was just so hot that anything would have done.

I also didn't want white - which, of course, I have got - as I was swapping them for my work shoes. I was looking at a New Balance M985 or M785 if I decided on leather. Both of these I could wear to the office without the rather incongruous look of dark blue suit and bright white trainers.

I will get my money back tomorrow and try again.

Thanks for the tips - and the example!

Neil :D

a high level of TR to Member opinion antidisestablishmentarianism around here IMHO.

Secrets of shoes, sock fixation- I think that this is doing permanent damage to my personality...

Keep in mind that it doesn't matter how many miles you walk at a given time. Some things are cumulative. We keep track of how many miles are on our shoes. (Ever wonder why I know precisely what our mileage is?) I just picked up my second pair of NB 1122 and will track the mileage on them seperately so that I can determine which pair are worn on which day. Your shoes are considered worn out- regardless of appearance- at 500 or so miles. After that point, the support in the shoe has worn out.

Keep up the good work!

Edited to add- Both of the New Balance numbers you ae considering would do the job nicely for the amount of walking and the surfaces you want to walk. Don't forget the socks!

JD mentioned that silence was the best part of a BJ.

Well, my wife had a Broken Jaw as a result of a bicycle accident and had to have her jaw wired for a couple of months. Unfortunately, the silence that resulted occurred 10 years before I met her. :)

Not quite sure how you're seeing this from a gutter perspective. I guess I'm just too pure even to comprehend how the Impure Brigage thinks.

Hope you cool off soon. Here in beautiful Vermont, the east coast hot spell has driven our temperature to a sizzling 28C. It's gorgeous.

be a pure Pee Wee Herman man, sort you right out n'aw that, ken like?

How's that working for you?

On second thought, TMI...

You'll never get out of 'em if you don't leave an escape hatch!

:x

The minute you walked in the joint
They could se you were a man of no distinction perhaps a grade A loser
You Looked tired, you looked weak, perfect for the old item plantation and ?click?
Now you are locked in the joint, not even a harmonica to pass your day away
Hey TopP12, nobody cares about you anecdote anyway>>>>:-)

I can do. ]:)

Would you care for that with or without duct tape? :0

:x

A tight belt and tight suspenders both would kill my desire to even go out on a date, as well as my ability to do so.
On the up side, would probally help my singing voice.