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The bell rang at the end of school, and I went to my locker to get my stuff, as usual. I put in my code, but it wouldn't open. I then thought 'Maybe I didn't put it in correctly', and tried a few more times, but it still would not open. I then went to the Student Office, and they directed me to the groundskeeper, who gave me a 'master key' to open my locker. I then got my stuff after opening it with the key, and went home.

But I am now at school again, and my lock isn't opening. That means that I can't put my stuff away, can't check the timetable for my classes, and can't get my stuff needed for those classes. I have roughly 15-20 mins before school starts, so what should I do?

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My mother had an appointment, about two weeks ago. With her bad ankle and other poor joints, going out anytime is always an ordeal. She was tired, worn out, hungry, and in pain when she got home. Then the doorbell rings... Not sure if it was my brother's kids stopping by, she answers the door without looking, only to discover a Kirby Vacuum Salesman at her door... Not sure if you've ever had the misfortune of having one show up at your door, but thanks to a few policies I'll address later, a great number of them are dirty cockroaches that you just can't get rid of!

The general way these things work, is you get a person with a strongly overwhelming personality to blast the unassuming consumerist victim (LOL... I misspelled consumerist and the auto-derp suggested communism instead! :confused:)... Okay, derailed... back on track... They blast the unassuming victim (who is not communist, usually :rolleyes:) with an overwhelmingly pushy sales pitch that includes a "demonstration"... Mind you, this demonstration is designed to last HOURS... They claim that there is a no obligation, no money down guarantee to try, with a three day cancelation window. at two hours in, my mother decided it would be easier to cancel the purchase the next day, than endure another moment of the sales pitch... You have to understand, these salesmen are SO BAD that people routinely report this as a scam, and Kirby's own website has a page dedicated to "explain why this isn't actually a scam"... Right... That instills confidence... Those people with the experience so bad, that they say "they felt like they almost needed to call the police to get these people to leave their homes"... That's NORMAL!?!?!? :huh: That's crazy, is what it is... My mother can't afford a $2000+ vacuum cleaner, yet she willingly believed making the purchase and canceling it the next day would be the "easy" route... :/

So, the next day, she calls to cancel the order, and they let her know someone will come to pick up the vacuum. They show up, and despite her not touching it from how the salesman left it, they had to "fully test it" to verify no damage had occurred... Which was actually a lead in to a SECOND SALES PITCH DEMONSTRATION to try to get her to not cancel the thing she had called them to take away... I can't even... :mad:

Anyway, a couple days later, she did need to vacuum, so she went to get her old vacuum... which was not there... They "took" her old vacuum, since she "no longer needed it"! :0.0:

It's been nearly two weeks, and she's been demanding it back. Twice they told her someone would return it the next day, and twice, she's been lied too. Monday,t why didn't even answer her calls... Calls that I instructed her on.

I told my mother that she needs to call these people and make it clear that two weeks has been ample time to return HER MISSING PROPERTY. As a matter of fact, the "trade in" option was never marked on the contract, thus they had NO RIGHT to take the old vacuum in the first place. Furthermore, if the old vacuum is not returned within 48 hours, it would be reported to the police as a theft, and all paperwork they left behind for the "sale" would be submitted to the police as identifying evidence as to who stole the property.

I need to actually call her back, to see if she ever got through to them.

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Further to this ear conversation, My ears have a condition in which they  constantly and irritatingly pop. I've had this for about a year and now I have to go see a ear, nose and throat specialist in a week. Please don't say I need an operation.

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29 minutes ago, richfiles said:

My mother had an appointment, about two weeks ago. With her bad ankle and other poor joints, going out anytime is always an ordeal. She was tired, worn out, hungry, and in pain when she got home. Then the doorbell rings... Not sure if it was my brother's kids stopping by, she answers the door without looking, only to discover a Kirby Vacuum Salesman at her door... Not sure if you've ever had the misfortune of having one show up at your door, but thanks to a few policies I'll address later, a great number of them are dirty cockroaches that you just can't get rid of!

The general way these things work, is you get a person with a strongly overwhelming personality to blast the unassuming consumerist victim (LOL... I misspelled consumerist and the auto-derp suggested communism instead! :confused:)... Okay, derailed... back on track... They blast the unassuming victim (who is not communist, usually :rolleyes:) with an overwhelmingly pushy sales pitch that includes a "demonstration"... Mind you, this demonstration is designed to last HOURS... They claim that there is a no obligation, no money down guarantee to try, with a three day cancelation window. at two hours in, my mother decided it would be easier to cancel the purchase the next day, than endure another moment of the sales pitch... You have to understand, these salesmen are SO BAD that people routinely report this as a scam, and Kirby's own website has a page dedicated to "explain why this isn't actually a scam"... Right... That instills confidence... Those people with the experience so bad, that they say "they felt like they almost needed to call the police to get these people to leave their homes"... That's NORMAL!?!?!? :huh: That's crazy, is what it is... My mother can't afford a $2000+ vacuum cleaner, yet she willingly believed making the purchase and canceling it the next day would be the "easy" route... :/

So, the next day, she calls to cancel the order, and they let her know someone will come to pick up the vacuum. They show up, and despite her not touching it from how the salesman left it, they had to "fully test it" to verify no damage had occurred... Which was actually a lead in to a SECOND SALES PITCH DEMONSTRATION to try to get her to not cancel the thing she had called them to take away... I can't even... :mad:

Anyway, a couple days later, she did need to vacuum, so she went to get her old vacuum... which was not there... They "took" her old vacuum, since she "no longer needed it"! :0.0:

It's been nearly two weeks, and she's been demanding it back. Twice they told her someone would return it the next day, and twice, she's been lied too. Monday,t why didn't even answer her calls... Calls that I instructed her on.

I told my mother that she needs to call these people and make it clear that two weeks has been ample time to return HER MISSING PROPERTY. As a matter of fact, the "trade in" option was never marked on the contract, thus they had NO RIGHT to take the old vacuum in the first place. Furthermore, if the old vacuum is not returned within 48 hours, it would be reported to the police as a theft, and all paperwork they left behind for the "sale" would be submitted to the police as identifying evidence as to who stole the property.

I need to actually call her back, to see if she ever got through to them.

Oh, gosh. Kirby. My wife has a carpet-cleaning fetish. You hear all these jokes about guys being in the dog house and sleeping on the couch because they bought their wives a vacuum cleaner for their birthday? Not my wife. If I bought my wife a brand-new, top-of-the-line vacuum cleaner for her birthday I'd get the hands over the mouth, and the little <squee> noise, and the big hug. What can I say, she's an odd fish. Her parents have had a Kirby vacuum cleaner since just after the Earth cooled. I can hold whatever opinions I want about their pricing and sales practices, but I have to admit: Their vacuums are built like tanks. So it was always on her back-burner wish list to get a Kirby vacuum cleaner.

So, it's 2007 and my wife is home alone on family leave after we had our first kid. The doorbell rings, it's a Kirby vacuum salesman, he wants to give her a free carpet cleaning demonstration. This is like offering my wife a free spa treatment, or a free cruise to the Caribbean. She's all, "Sure!" He tells her that he has to canvas the rest of the neighborhood to set up his other appointments, but he'll be back in a couple of hours for the demo. But after he leaves, she starts to get a little paranoid. What if this guy wasn't on the up-and-up, what if he was just casing houses for home invasions or something? So, she straps up. When he came back she had the baby on one hip and a Glock 17 on the other. She said she had no idea that a salesman could be that polite.

I got home from work that night and she relayed the whole story to me, and I was so proud. Right up until I found out that we had just spent $1,500 on a vacuum cleaner. At that point part of me kind of wished she had just shot the guy. ;.;

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10 minutes ago, OwenM said:

Further to this ear conversation, My ears have a condition in which they  constantly and irritatingly pop. I've had this for about a year and now I have to go see a ear, nose and throat specialist in a week. Please don't say I need an operation.

Is it your ears are popping when you swallow? That could be TMJD (Temporomandibular joint dysfunction). Google it.

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Smashed my finger at work today (mostly because the pry bar slipped due to lack of gripping friction, but partly my own fault).

Had to drill a 1/16" (1mm) hole in my fingernail to vent the blood pooling up underneath and causing me grief.

Believe it or not, it feels almost normal now.

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23 minutes ago, GDJ said:

Had to drill a 1/16" (1mm) hole in my fingernail to vent the blood pooling up underneath and causing me grief.

Been there. Folks never believe me when I say drilling (or in my case burning with a cauterizing needle) a hole through your fingernail to relieve pressure from an injury feels great. (At least in comparison to how it felt a few moments before.)

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51 minutes ago, GDJ said:

Smashed my finger at work today (mostly because the pry bar slipped due to lack of gripping friction, but partly my own fault).

Had to drill a 1/16" (1mm) hole in my fingernail to vent the blood pooling up underneath and causing me grief.

Believe it or not, it feels almost normal now.

27 minutes ago, Cydonian Monk said:

Been there. Folks never believe me when I say drilling (or in my case burning with a cauterizing needle) a hole through your fingernail to relieve pressure from an injury feels great. (At least in comparison to how it felt a few moments before.)

I had a really bad one in the army when I smashed my thumb out on a field problem... and when one of the senior medics saw it, before I knew what he was doing, he literally pinned my hand down and stabbed my thumb with a small scalpel.... and while it hurt like crap for a couple seconds, he nailed the spot exactly so it could drain, and was 1000% better in just a minute or so, and healed up nicely.  :)

 

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2 hours ago, LordFerret said:

Is it your ears are popping when you swallow? That could be TMJD (Temporomandibular joint dysfunction). Google it.

%% gender xDr, weird i don't get it xDr

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1 hour ago, Just Jim said:

I had a really bad one in the army when I smashed my thumb out on a field problem... and when one of the senior medics saw it, before I knew what he was doing, he literally pinned my hand down and stabbed my thumb with a small scalpel.... and while it hurt like crap for a couple seconds, he nailed the spot exactly so it could drain, and was 1000% better in just a minute or so, and healed up nicely.  :)

 

lol, so you were stabbed by a medic.....

next time I smash my thumb.... I may not do that (i`ll probably drill through my thumb)

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3 hours ago, Cydonian Monk said:

Been there. Folks never believe me when I say drilling (or in my case burning with a cauterizing needle) a hole through your fingernail to relieve pressure from an injury feels great. (At least in comparison to how it felt a few moments before.)

Yeah it does work. I had to do that to our receptionist a while back. She slammed her finger in a steel cabinet door. 3 guys held her hand down (she was cursing like a sailor on meth) and I had to do the red hot paper clip job. Literally 1/4 second of burning hair smell, a squirt of blood that shot up at least a metre (1 yard) and she swore some more for 20 seconds. After that she came back to the shop and thanked me for doing it because her finger felt alot better.

Who said first aid was boring? :wink:

2 hours ago, Just Jim said:

I had a really bad one in the army when I smashed my thumb out on a field problem... and when one of the senior medics saw it, before I knew what he was doing, he literally pinned my hand down and stabbed my thumb with a small scalpel.... and while it hurt like crap for a couple seconds, he nailed the spot exactly so it could drain, and was 1000% better in just a minute or so, and healed up nicely.  :)

 

Yeah, I suppose a red hot needle is faster, but I kind of like the feel method with the titanium drill bit. I found that a bit less painful (albeit slower) but it's effective.
Unfortunately 1/16" was the smallest I had on hand (in my hobby box I have a 1/32").

Made the purchaser turn green as I was doing it (she was also the first aider). :D

Millennials are such wimps. They cry too much. (ha ha) :wink:

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8 hours ago, LordFerret said:

Is it your ears are popping when you swallow? That could be TMJD (Temporomandibular joint dysfunction). Google it.

Jeeze, small world! I recently had cause to google that because my jaw is popping painfully and occasionally almost-locking, when I eat. Could be related to some oral surgery I had in the region. 

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9 hours ago, LordFerret said:

Is it your ears are popping when you swallow? That could be TMJD (Temporomandibular joint dysfunction). Google it.

Yes(ish). Whenever I have my jaw move. Will google.

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16 hours ago, WinkAllKerb'' said:

%% gender xDr, weird i don't get it xDr

? What don't you get? The 'ear popping'? Google it. It can be very annoying, if not painful. TMJ can have a wide range of effects... follow with what I write below.....

 

10 hours ago, p1t1o said:

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9 hours ago, OwenM said:

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I've known a number of people who have dealt with TMJ, from slight to severe. The severe case I knew of, she had jaw popping, ear popping, jaw locking, migraine headaches, and even problems when lifting things (arm weakness). You wouldn't imagine that TMJ could affect you in such ways, but it can. The key to her case was bite alignment... a dental issue. Her teeth and jaw were so out of align that it was causing the roof of her hard palate to drop, she was lacking that natural 'arch' you have at the roof of your mouth. One of the telltale signs included scalloping of her tongue. Another was when cotton rolls were put over her molars to bite down on, forcing proper jaw alignment (this also changed all the mechanics of the muscles and tendons in the neck and shoulders as well), the arm weakness disappeared. Braces were in order. She was placed in the care of an osteopath (friend of mine) and (one of) the leading TMJ specialists on the east coast. In about two years time, the doctor(s) changed the geometry of her mouth, and in the process alleviated her TMJ. Talk about a life change. :)

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And it's a barf fest in my house today.

Sick daughters.

:P

And the microwave just died.

:mad:

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Because I flipping felt like it.
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I was enjoying my delicious five teaspoons of sugar cup of Tea untill...

3 hours ago, GDJ said:

And it's a barf fest in my house today.

Sick daughters.

 

On 11/10/2017 at 1:43 AM, GDJ said:

Had to drill a 1/16" (1mm) hole in my fingernail to vent the blood pooling up underneath and causing me grief.

 

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Today, i was cycling, i had a nice day, untill a LEAF hit my FACE! This is UNACCEPTABLE! I GOT A SCAR, I CANT SPEAK ANYMORE, and im GOING TO BLAME NASA YUP THATS RIGHT NASA BECAUSE THEY HAVE THEIR COOL HAARP TECHNOLOGY AND STUFF, AND THEY CONTROLLED THE WIND TOWARDS MY FACE, IM SUEING NASA 19,5 BILLION DOLLAHS!

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13 hours ago, NSEP said:

Today, i was cycling, i had a nice day, untill a LEAF hit my FACE! This is UNACCEPTABLE! I GOT A SCAR, I CANT SPEAK ANYMORE, and im GOING TO BLAME NASA YUP THATS RIGHT NASA BECAUSE THEY HAVE THEIR COOL HAARP TECHNOLOGY AND STUFF, AND THEY CONTROLLED THE WIND TOWARDS MY FACE, IM SUEING NASA 19,5 BILLION DOLLAHS!

You set your sights too low.

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