3301

Everyone in my office who got a flu shot is now horribly sick with the flu with the exception of one person. At least one of them has H1N1. Hilariously, as the only one that got no shot, I am the only other one that is not sick.

3302

Because it’s a invasive medical procedure and like all others it caries a small risk to mother and baby as well as a number of possible side effects.

(my wife had one both times, so I’m not against them - they’re just not risk free. They’re also costly, which is why a healthcare system where everybody pays shouldn’t go hogwild using them. Not an issue if you’re paying)

3303

I just bought my first car in August. Exciting. I need auto insurance. The place I get my home insurance through (MetLife) has a discount if I get my auto through them to. So I go through and set it up. Since my home insurance is automatically deducted from my paycheck, this will be deducted too. No problem.

Suddenly there’s a problem. I keep getting things in the mail saying that I owe them three hundred dollars and they’re going to cancel my insurance. End of September I call them up to be all wtf? And they say there was a problem with my automatic deduction, don’t worry about it, they fixed it. While I’m on the phone I find out they have Bahimiron on my auto insurance since he was listed on my home insurance. Since he no longer lives with me, I clear that up. The lady assures me all is well.

I double check my paycheck, everything is being deducted.

I get a thing in the mail saying my policy is going to be canceled about a week later, along with a sheet saying that it had come to their attention that I want to ADD Bahimiron to my insurance and that I need to call them so they can tell me about my new plan!

Since this is not at all what I talked to the lady about, I call back. The new lady clears everything up, sets the policy straight, and now I’m paying less. Bonus!

Yesterday I get a bill in the mail threatening that unless I give them three hundred dollars, my insurance will be canceled in two weeks. I just got off the phone with them AGAIN and what apparently happened was that they hadn’t, for some UNKNOWN REASON, set up my auto insurance to be automatic deduction in the first place. On my very first phone call when they were supposed to correct it, what they did was write up a new policy for automatic deduction and NEVER CANCELED THE OLD ONE.

So I’ve had two policies that they’ve been billing me for since August, one of them set to bill me by mail, which is why I kept getting those notices. The woman today was very nice and gave me her name and canceled the other policy and told me to disregard that bill and PROMISED me that there would be no further issues.

Hooray car ownership.

3304

I finally bought a PS3. Not all that interesting, I know, but I never thought I would. The internet raving over Uncharted 2 pushed me over the edge.

3305

You should switch to another insurance carrier.

3306

You should probably start a thread asking people what games you should buy.

3307

This is why I like Mercury Insurance. You have one agent and that person is the only person you have to talk to.

3308

You should probably start a thread asking people what games you should buy.

Oh, I considered it…

3309

I’m wearing my new Levi’s in the color “Stray Cat,” and my buttocks are looking extremely shapely. Everyone’s lookin’.

3310

I was mentioned in the Isthmus, Madison’s local paper. Also, I am a featured comedian, not the headliner, at the Comedy Club on State next week. I got to be on TV on Sunday, but it was only for a public access pledge drive, and I said naughty things. I also got to go to Appleton and Milwaukee, to get paid to be drunk.

Schmidt, an unassuming but sharp-witted comedian with a steadily building reputation, bemoaned the lessons of his youth: “My mother always told me that talking to strangers was a great way to end up with a weirdo’s hand in your flavor place, but that’s bullshit! I’ve been talking to strangers all week and got nothing!”

The actual joke is, “My mother told me that talking to strangers was a great way to get molested. But I’ve been talking to strangers all week…nothing.” Admittedly, I did change molested to a “some weirdo’s hand in your flavor place,” but that’s just because I was bored.

3311

The new guy I’m dating works in a farming community a ways outside of Richmond. He had to drop a co-worker off at the Richmond Airport so he surprised me this morning with fresh farm grown onions, green/red peppers, tomatoes, fresh eggs and cheese, and freshly made (as of yesterday) apple cider that he squeezed himself. (Unpasteurized and pure!) He made awesome omelets, and even brought a french press because my coffee maker is broken. Sooooooooo tasty.

3312

Wow, Scrax. Sounds like you better keep that one!

3313

Yes, because he brings me food!

3314

That’s grounds for a marriage proposal if you ask me.

3315

Agreed. A delivery of farm fresh eggs makes him a keeper.

3316

He sounds like a fucking hippie.

3317

Sir, I reject your conclusion on the following grounds:

A) Hippies can’t cook for shit.

B) Scrax made no mention of him being filthy.

3318

I was worried about that too…until I met him. There are a lot of hippie “working communities” out there though. He isn’t all that far from a 80ish person polyamory sect. Freee looooove maaan!

3319

Do the honies try all kinds of tomfoolery to steal a feel of your family jewelry?

3320

Got an A on my thesis. The grade is in, the diploma ordered. HOORAY I AM REALLY, REALLY DONE!