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Paper clips from Office Depot

Posted on: Friday, August 3rd, 2007 in: Other

This was pretty funny.  We ordered a handful of things online from Office Depot and one item was a box of paper clips.  Just a small box of 100 paper clips — small enough to easily fit in your pants pocket.
For some reason, the paper clips were shipped separate from the rest of the order.  [...]

UPS is confused by what “over” means

Posted on: Friday, August 3rd, 2007 in: Other

We got a bit package the other day. It was something for my wife - a bunch of old maternity clothes being returned to her, I think, so she could give them to someone else. Needless to say, it was a heavy box.
64 lbs, to be exact. That’s why UPS put a [...]

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 [...]