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Yahoo Answers doesn’t know how to say “thank you”

Posted on: Monday, July 23rd, 2007 in: Other

I got an e-mail from Yahoo Answers a few days ago with the subject line “A little thank you…”. Here is the full message:

Where is the “thank you” in that message? The whole thing is about why I should be using Yahoo Answers even more.
FWIW, I think Yahoo Answers is pretty neat. [...]

SunTrust Bank

Posted on: Monday, July 16th, 2007 in: Other

We’ve used SunTrust for years, and overall we’re quite happy with them.  Our issue lies with their apparent trouble in updating their own system.
The first case of this was about a year ago.  Three times in the course of a month, we’d try to pay for something (usually a meal) and our card would be [...]

The Gerber Life Grow-Up Plan

Posted on: Thursday, July 5th, 2007 in: Other

I’ve not looked close enough at this plan to see if it’s anything that parents should do, but I have no confidence in their ability to keep track of money. Check out this chart they show during their commercials:
The bar on the left represents $10,000. The one on the right represents $20,000. [...]

Don’t let the kids too close

Posted on: Thursday, July 5th, 2007 in: Other

Some friends of ours were staying in a hotel in downtown Atlanta, so we went down to visit them. We went swimming and let the kids play for a while, then went up to their room so we could figure out where to eat.
Their room was up on the fifth floor. When we [...]

Put my shoes where?

Posted on: Thursday, July 5th, 2007 in: Resturants

We stopped a Burger King while on vacation and let our daughter play in their play area. It was a decent little play area, but this baffled me.
Here is a sign that says “Shoes go in here”, with a sign pointing to a tic-tac-toe board. It’s possible that the sign is just [...]

Panda Express is very stingy with their napkins

Posted on: Thursday, July 5th, 2007 in: Resturants

We have a Panda Express restaurant near us and we enjoy going there. It’s fairly cheap and it’s pretty good food. However, I’m amazed at how stingy they are about their napkins and their plasticware.
They don’t have them out anywhere. For a while, I thought “well, they’re new - they just forgot”, [...]