SHOUT BOX!!!!!! - Freeze-Frame Radio

Mocrzy · Patient Zero

SHOUT BOX!!!!!!

Mocrzy · Patient Zero

I'll Start, Don't you hate it when you request a song from work...get a phone call...and by the time you get hyour headphones on, you've missed your request....grrrrr...it JUST happened...oh well, gotta try it again some other time

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

WHATS THE DEAL WITH POSTAL INSURANCE?!?!?

I just don't get it, I NEVER have.

I go to the counter and I say "HEY! How much will it cost to ship this to Texas?" and the clerk responds "That'll be $3.85 sir". So I pull out my wallet, I hand over my money and she asks "Would you like to insure this package for only $1.20 extra?". "Why, Insure it against what?" I ask inquisitively!

The clerk replies "Against loss or damage".

Confused, I say back to her "you mean my $3.85 doesn't guarantee that you won't damage my package? It doesn't even guarantee that you'll deliver it?"

"NO SIR" she says!

THINK ABOUT THIS!!!!! WHAT OTHER INDUSTRY WORKS LIKE THIS!!!!! I'LL GIVE YOU A HINT, IT STARTS WITH AN "M" AND USUALLY ENDS WITH A FAT GUY FACE DOWN IN A BOWL OF SPAGHETTI WITH 15 BULLET HOLES IN HIM!!!!

I mean COME ON!

What if your mechanic operated like that? Gee sir, it'll be $200 to fix your brakes, but you may want to take the optional insurance for $50 incase I don't fix them right!

TOTAL SCAM! AND WHATS WORSE IS WE ALL JUST ACCEPT IT!!!!

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!

BIGGEST PET PEEVE OF MY ENTIRE LIFE!

(Second biggest pet peeve is how EVERYONE, even on TV and in the Movies, will say "I could care less" when they MEAN to say "I Couldn't Care Less", if they COULD care less then obviously they care somewhat so they just nixed the point they were trying to make!!!!

Hey, thanks for starting this thread, it feels good to get this out

-- Edited by Jeremy Riggs at 14:59, 2004-10-26

Mocrzy · Patient Zero

already do the one earphone thing...can't consentrate on both the phone & music.

speaking of phone...don't you hate it when you have to make an important call, and when you finally get in touch with the person you need to speak to, your mastery of the English laguage completely falls apart, and gibberish is all you can spew....I sometimes have to stop trying and make a second attempt and let my brain catch up to my mouth

Trish · The Procrastinating Red-Head

O.K., I'm jumping on the shout box. I hate commercials where people eat and you can hear them chomp down on the food. What is up with that? Like I really want to eat something after hearing some person slurp and chomp on a burger. Yeah, that's tasty.

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

Yikes! I hope that wasn't a commercial on our station :)

I don't get too annoyed at the food commercials, but MAN could live without having to see a drug commercial every five minutes!

I mean, after two hours of watching TV I walk away certain I am suffering from eleven new diseases and have a list as long as my arm of drugs I need to ask my doctor if are right for me!

Last night I was convinced I was simulataneously having a stroke, a heart attack, anxiety, depression and irritable bowel syndrome!

-- Edited by Jeremy Riggs at 18:39, 2004-11-01

Trish · The Procrastinating Red-Head

No, I didn't hear it on your station. It's the tv commercials. I have a lot of hangups about eating as it is, and those types of commercials don't help. I say that I am particular about manners, other may say that I'm just a bit...well, let's not go there. I can't stand it when people chew with their mouth open. Or breathe really heavy when they're eating. You know, the loud whooshing noise coming out of their nostrils as they chew. Or worse yet, when they perform an eating trifecta. The food noise, the open mouth and the heavy breathing (out of their mouth, though.). Yeah. I guess it's really easy for me to judge, I am perfect after all. And if you believe that one... I know it's being persnickety, but it was ingrained in me since childhood not to do those things so, in turn, they drive me absolutely crazy. Well, there you have it. I am a neurotic, obsessive-compulsive, chain-smoking, red-headed, Duran Duran loving girl with an off sense of humor. O.K. That may be a bit harsh. I'm not really a chain smoker.

Mocrzy · Patient Zero

new gripe...I can't stand chain letters...FROM FRIENDS...

Spam you can chuck without another thought...

Chain letters from strangers just making the "pass on to 10 or more people" limit...chuck it...

But when a friend or family member consistantly sends you chain letters, you end up reading through them...they make it so hard to chuck the darn thing....then you feel bad (which is what they were made to do so you pass it on)...don't send me chain letters, cuz I can't stand having to send em on to others, but I feel like a heel just puttin' them in the delete box

Mocrzy · Patient Zero

DON'T TALK ON YOUR CELL PHONE & DRIVE ON THE EXPRESSWAY AT THE SAME TIME......AAAAAARGGGHHHH

How many times have you been cut off by a slower car, not be able to pass them, and then find out they are gabbing away on thier cell phone, Oblivious to the fact they cut you off in the first place.

Then, after 60 other cars pass you on the right, and you are finally able to pass them, they look at YOU like you did something wrong

Mocrzy · Patient Zero

Whew had to get those two off the chest .... gotta say something positive...I love that Juicy Fruit Commercial where they piniata attacks the little kids at the Birthday Party...it is SOOO Funny...I think it might be on thier website, but if not keep an eye out for it on the boob-tube

Trish · The Procrastinating Red-Head

Mocrzy, I am so with you on the cell phone thing! On this one four lane yesterday, I was sitting at a stop light and saw a white van sitting to my right out of the corner of my eye. What caught my eye was that there were no cars in front of him. I looked over to see what was going on and he was dialing his phone. There were no cars for at least 1/4 mile in front of him. He then drove 30 mph while talking on the phone, tying up the lane (the speed limit was 40). It would have only been worse if he had been in the left lane.

What is it about people and the left lane? I don't care how fast someone is going, they have to have the left lane. If you get to a part where a new lane opens on the left side, they immediately go over to the left. In St. Louis, people will left lane hog until they get close to the exit they want to get to and then they will cut across all four lanes to get to it. If I see them doing that, I will pull up right beside them and keep up with them. They have to try and push it to get around me and get to their lane. I just look straight ahead and keep driving. If they can be oblivious to the 2 miles of headlights behind them because they are driving so slowly in the left lane, I can be oblivious to the fact that they have their blinker on and need to exit. Is it still called road rage when I have no rage?

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

All very good points!

I get so tired of seeing people on cell phones in their car. I think atleast once per day I'll be behind someone at a red light and it turns green but they don't notice until I honk because they're gabbing away on their phone.

It was bad enough when people were busy stuffing cheeseburgers while they drive, or women sitting their putting on their makeup in the rearview mirror while driving.

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH INDEED!

Mocrzy · Patient Zero

A little Whiz-Dumb for y'all,

If olive oil comes from olives, where does baby oil come from?...ponder away

Mocrzy · Patient Zero

Going back to yesterdays discussion....Semi Truck Drivers....YOU ARE NOT FAST!!!!!!! Trucks of any kind bigger than pick-ups & SUV's should NEVER be in the left lane....you will never go fast enough to be in the fast lane!!!!...That goes for school buses too...

if your school or destination is on the left side of the road or you would have have to make a left hand turn...Figure out some other way to get there in which you only have to make right turns...if that means you have to make 3 right turns instead of 1 right...DO IT & DON'T SLOW ME DOWN!!!!!!

Whew... k...one more here...

All drivers...Drizzle will not destroy your car, you do not have to drive slowly enough to try and avoid the drops...if you're gonna drive 25 MPH in a 45 MPH zone because of drizzle, you have alot bigger problems & shouldn't be driving in the first place!!!

Trish · The Procrastinating Red-Head

Wow, it's nice to find someone to agree with. When I drove down to Florida last year, I loved that they have a law that says semi's can't drive in the left lane. It was so much easier. Last night, I drove home behind this delivery truck that drove 60 in the fast lane. Granted, the speed limit is 60, but I don't drive 60. If I do, it would take me 2 hours to get home and I'm not doing that. What an aggravation.

Here's another one to add to the list. I hate it when I go into an automotive store and people think just because you're a woman, you can't possibly know what you're looking for. I went into a major name parts store to get a blinker bulb. I went over to the book and started looking for my car model. I wasn't lost. I wasn't standing in the middle of the store looking around like "What the heck am I going to do now?". I was looking through the book to find the part number. This guy comes over and says "Can I help you find something, sweetie?". Now, don't get me wrong, I am not a raging feminist, but come on. How many people go into the parts store to browse the book section? I turned to him and said "No, thank you. I'm perfectly capable of reading.". I wasn't rude. I wanted to bite his head off, but I didn't. There have been times I've went in there and needed help and I asked for it, but to assume that I don't know anything is insulting.

Boy, I like this shoutbox. Someone stop me if I get too b*tchy.

Mocrzy · Patient Zero

Hey Trish...

The sweetie thing may have gone too far, but I know that at many retail places (Having worked at a Waldenbooks for over five years while in college) we have to go up to EVERYONE and ask them if they need help..."engage in chatter" they say...Waldens has 'Secret Shoppers' that will dock points off of the store if they are not greeted and engaged in conversation, among other things. It's possible that the car place has that same type of thing...now if he was talking down to you, (you're looking for front headlamps, and he shows you where the "little bulby things that make light in front of the car" are) then, by all means, bite away...but if it might be a customer service thing that may be "forced", maybe give him some slack

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

LOL,

After the "sweetie" I wouldn't have blamed you if you decked him!

I must say though, after reading your posts for the past two weeks I didn't think being politically correct would be high on your list of important things to be, I figured you as more of a straight shooter, tell it like it is kinda gal.

So I was a bit suprised by "Major Automotive Parts Store" GO AHEAD, LET THE NAMES FLY! LET IT AAAAAAAAAAAAAALL OUT!!!! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

Trish · The Procrastinating Red-Head

He was definitely condescending. Men walked into the store and they didn't move from behind the counter. I'm a strawberry blonde (which is just a fancy way of saying I have red hair with some blonde). I'm used to being treated like I can't possibly know anything about cars or engines. The funny thing is, I write technical manuals for a living.

You're right, Jeremy. I am a straight shooter. I don't go for all of this political correctness garbage. It's ridiculous. I think it has gone way to far. I don't understand why we have to pussyfoot around everyone else. I'm not obnoxious (at I dont' think I am), but if I have something to say, I'm gonna say it. Life's too short to spend it worrying about the "correct" things to say.

The dreaded place where all of this happened was Auto Zone. They know me there now. They don't come up to me unless I ask for help. I'll admit, I have had to ask for help and I'm not afraid to.

Mocrzy · Patient Zero

...Then BITE AWAY!!!!!!!

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

There ya go!

Now the community knows, Auto Zone's on our watch list! It's only strike one, but two more and we institute the official FREEZE FRAME BOYCOTT! Woo Hoo!

You are SO right about political correctness. It's been taken to the absolute extreme and I'm sick of it.

I would never go out of my way to be rude or insensitive, but I'm sick and tired of hearing stories about how some group or another wants a high school football team to stop calling themselves the Warriors because it offends American Indians or something like that.

ENOUGH!

Hey, The Jazz Doctor used to do that Technical Writing thing!

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

Mocrzy, nice job on starting the shout box!

This has definately been a popular thread!

Date: Thu Nov 4 19:04 2004

since you guys have been talking about cell phones in traffic, what about cell phones in movie theaters!

NOTHING TICKS ME OFF MORE than when some moron is talking on his or her cell phone DURING a movie! And it seems like it happens at every movie I ever go to anymore

Who the hell pays $10 for a movie ticket and then spends half the time on a phone call!

Trish · The Procrastinating Red-Head

You pay $10 for a movie ticket?! That is crazy. I guess there is one advantage of living in podunk. We live outside of St. Louis and only pay $4 for a ticket and $3 if it's a matinee. Youch! I couldn't imagine paying that much to go to the movies. I like our local movie theatre. And I'm not saying local movie theatre to try and be politically correct. They are not some large conglomerate, so you wouldn't even know who they are (Jeremy ). We buy the popcorn and soda and get free refills during the show. It rocks.

Cell phones in the movie theatre are so rude. I think cell phones have paved the way for a lot of rude behaviour. Just because your cell phone rings does not mean you stop in the middle of a sentence, hold up a finger and proceed with a lengthy conversation with another person. It's like they are saying, Nope, sorry, you're not as important as THIS person.

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

Ooooooooooooooooooh, Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh!!!!! YOU JUST REMINDED ME OF ONE OF MY BIGGEST PET PEEVES! I CAN'T BELIEVE I FORGOT UP TIL NOW!!!

I'll have to tread carefully, because it's SUCH a common thing I'm SURE a lot of people who read this will be guilty of using the service.

I CAN'T STAND CALL-WAITING, I think it's the most annoying service the phone company owns. It's like a house that wants to be a business!

Now, I recognize that when you have children it can be very useful (to make sure they can get a hold of you at any time), so I'll set aside THAT situation. But A LOT of the people I know who have it are single and have no need for it.

It's annoying on EITHER end, If you're already talking to someone who has it, it's so frustrating when they get that damn beep and say "Oh, can you hold on, I'm getting another call", then take anywhere from 1 to 30 MINUTES to come back! I actually had my best friend put me on hold for like 4 hours once! She got a call from a relative she hadn't heard from in years and "forgot" I was on the other line! I purposely left the phone on just to see how long it would take for her to come back! Needless to say, she was no longer my "Best" friend after that date!

Then, if you're the person CALLING someone who has call waiting, they always answer with that goofy sounding "Heeeello?" and you just KNOW they're already on the line and you feel like you're interupting them!

Then you get the "Hey, I'm on the other line, can I call you right back?" which of course means I'll get back to you sometime in the next 24 hours!

I can't tell you how many times I've called someone right before I'm running out the door and get the "Can I call you right back?", only to be left to postpone my trip for an hour!

I've finally gotten to the point where I usually just say "NO, I'll call you when I have time again"

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

GOOD TOPIC MOCRZY!!! VERY GOOD TOPIC THREAD!!!!!!!!!!!

NOW WHERE ARE MY BLOOD PRESSURE PILLS!!!!!

Date: Sun Nov 7 11:17 2004

how about those people who get to the checkout counter at the food store and have a belt full of merchandise but only $10, so they spend all their time having the clerk check a price to see if they can afford it, or worse yet let the clerk ring it all up and then start having him or her remove an item one by one to get the total down to what they can afford

I've gotten behind this idiot three times in my life!

Mocrzy · Patient Zero

I can one up that...and it just happened this weekend. We had gone across the street of the AMC 30 to the Super Target to get some candy for the show Incredibles (Tix were $9 so I feel no shame or remorse sneaking in cheap candy).

well the movie was going to start in about 15 minutes, but seing as how it was opening weekend, we'd be cutting it close for seats

We got our candy & went to check out. The line we chose had a woman w/ a pack of gum...sweet...short line....um..........WRONG!!!

After the cashier scanned it, the woman pulled out a credit card...for gum...K?

Well...It was declined on the first swipe...and the second swipe, but the woman insisted it was good and to give the card a third swipe....nope

so she dug though her purse (for the change for the gum we thought) and pulled out...Another credit card!!!

Again...once...twice...three times swiped & it wouldn't go through....FOR GUM!!!!

Who in the world has two credit cards so maxed out you can't put gum on them....for that matter who uses credit cards when you don't even have the cash for gum?

She finally pulled out a debit card and swiped it...it declined the first time, but that's because she had forgotten the pin on the first try...on time # 2 she got the pin right and finally had put her $.52 pack of Gum on plastic...

We missed the star wars trailer & most of the animated short before the Incredibles because of her.

Trish · The Procrastinating Red-Head

Jeremy was just talking on the air about new releases. I can relate! I live close to St. Louis, but it's still a good distance away (which makes for a long commute), so our only local music outlet is Walmart. It's a half hour away from my house. If I want to go to Target, it's an hour. If I want to go to Best Buy or Circuit City, it's about an hour and 15 minutes. That's a long way to go just to buy music, especially when the weekend seem the get shorter and shorter. The problem is - Walmart is not good about putting out new releases. I waited 3 weeks for the release of the new Duran Duran album. That's insane. When I get done with work, I don't want to have to stop and shop. I'm drained from working. That's a weekend kind of thing for me. I go on the weekend and see if they have it. If they don't, I don't have time to drive for an hour to go get it. It just aggravates me that they put out all this hype about new releases when the only thing they get on the date that they say it is released are movies.

I could go on and on about Walmart. They have really made me mad more than a couple of times. I will restrain myself, though. I will add one little comment on it, though. Don't raise the price for a year and gouge me on Tide and then lower the price and say it's a roll back when a Walmart in another town kept the same price for the year.

O.K., I've vented and I fell much better now.

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

THREE WEEKS! NOW THAT'S INSANE!!!!!!

Wal-Mart has two MAJOR problems. Number one, they're VERY picky about what they carry, they want to maintain the "family" image, so they won't carry anything too racy. I don't have a problem with that, but it shouldn't take 3 weeks to determine Duran Duran is an acceptable artist to stock. (that's the only reason I could think of that they would take 3 weeks to carry it).

Number two, they're in an amazing battle with the record companies right now. They're basically holding the record companies hostage and threatening to stop carrying music if the labels don't allow them to sell EVERY cd at $9.88!! This of course means the record companies would need to cut their wholesale prices to about $7.99 per disc, while right now a new release is anywhere from $9.75 to $13 (the big retailers just lose money on them to get people in the store).

Bottom line, Wal-Mart is getting too big.

Where are the corner record stores? The one where the clerk KNEW YOU, and would tell you when he or she heard news of an upcoming concert or album release that they knew you'd be interested in?

WAL-MART and BEST BUY now account for almost 60% of album sales by themselves! And they're doing it by selling $2 per disc under their cost!

But now I'm off track :( The bottom line is, if you're going to serve your customer then CARRY new releases IMMEDIATELY and with adequate stock!

I just wrote a two page letter to send to Target, Inc. I was so annoyed I went back to the store after my on-air rant and the discs still weren't out! So I asked an employee where all the new CD's were that were in the flyer and the little bas**rd lied to me and said they were all sold out!!!

I said, REALLY? How many did you have of each. He claimed 50. So then I said "that's amazing, I could see Shania Twain selling out in 4 hours, but Vanessa Carlton? Elton John? Tony Bennet? Linda Rondstat? These ARE NOT A-List acts anymore? When did you sell out of them?"

When he told me Carlton just sold out about ten minutes ago I knew he was lying because I had just been there about an hour earlier and they still hadn't been stocked. So I talked to a manager who admited they hadn't gotten to the stock yet.

Now, I know this is a lot of anger over something most people wouldn't care about, but I know the music business, and I know that they received these CD's in stock on Monday at the latest, often the new releases are in stock on the Friday before their release. THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR NOT HAVING THEM READY.

Best Buy is the ONLY place I know of that specifically stocks the night before or the day of the release while they are closed, so that when the doors open Tuesday morning everything is there and ready to go.

I told the manager, "In my head now, when I get ready to go and buy my new releases, where do you think I'm gonna go? Will I take a risk and drive to Target and HOPE they stocked them today, or will I go to Best Buy where I KNOW they'll be stocked?"

MAN, Customer no-service just makes me SO MAD

-- Edited by Jeremy Riggs at 15:13, 2004-11-09

Mocrzy · Patient Zero

You know, I really wish I had heard your rant today, but I lost the freeze-frame signal from about 11am to 1:15 PM, and I think you ranted during that time...if only there was a transcript...or recording....

Trish · The Procrastinating Red-Head

Walmart has more problems than that. I think my biggest gripe against Walmart is the way they treat their employees. They make BILLIONS a year in profit and they don't provide health insurance for their employees. They will work a person at "peak time" until they get close to getting the amount at peak time they need to get insurance and then they will bump you down to part time. That is such crap. I could see if they made a decent living, but they don't. They work for peanuts, get treated like crap by a lot of people and are being screwed by their own employer.

The other thing that makes me mad is how they have changed since Sam Walton died. Sam Walton was a great man. I saw him one time at a Walmart in Arkansas. He was stocking shelves. He was the kind of man that if he saw something wrong, he fixed it. If he was in the wrong, he apologized and made it right. There was this woman who had an item fall on her at a Walmart and she was injured. She sued. Walmart has 40 lawyers on staff at all times. They drug the case out in court to the point where she couldn't afford to fight it anymore and had to settle. They were in the wrong and they knew it, but they knew they could get away with it. Which just goes to prove what my Dad always says, "You only get as much justice as you can afford."