Who here is not in the "clique" like me?

[DisneyGirl4188]

Good Morning!!! Whoops!!! If you're up and online I must be running late!!!!

Slacker!

 

[DznyFan]

Good Morning ~ and mommyintn, jaycat, and markandtrish!

2xcited ~ yes, I remember Simon! (and his 'drawrings') I also loved Mike Meyers as Phillip "I'm a hyper hypo" with Nicole Kidman... Oh, the old SNLs. And the older SNLs... the John Belushi, Dan Ackroyd, Gilda Radner days... now my age is showing.

Donna - it looks like you are behind! Still trying to get back in the swing of things after that marvelous Disney vacation?

Hello to Linda, Nicole, Pozey, Amber, Ashley, Lyzziesmom, YourMajesty, April, and I hope I didn't leave anybody out!

 

[Tinkerbell_Girl]

Good Morning everyone!

 

[lindakmonty]

Did you guys see the thread showing the disney keys? They're so adorable...I'm gonna have to get those!!!

 

[Tinkerbell_Girl]

I just saw those! I need the Tinkerbell key!

 

[ForTheLoveofDisney]

Girls and Guy,

I just had to post this after the drama was over.

And boy was it drama!!

You won't believe what I did because I can hardly believe what I did!!

Yesterday morning I was making my WW bread toast (1 pt. for 2 slices ) when my DSis calls and says, "April, you need to go check your email," in a panicked voice. So I say, "What's wrong?" And she says, "You booked our flights backward!! You've got us flying out of Orlando into Philly and leaving Philly and flying back to Orlando!!"

"WHAT???", I say. "Shutup!! This is not funny!!" And she responds with, "I'm not kidding. Would I joke about something like this?"
------Sidenote!! Aahhh, yes she would!! She does it ALL the time!! I have a psycho neighbor across the street who is just crazy !! And my DSis will say stuff all the time like, "So and So across the street stopped me before I got here and wants to know what your problem is. She's on her way over." Which would not be far fetched because she is crazy and has been known to scream from across the street (when I had dial-up and the line was busy and she couldn't get through), "Pick up your darn phone!! Hang up and call me!!" Like a lunatic. And we have acre lots seperated by a road so she was screaming. And she's been known to come over unannounced and ring the doorbell and then proceed to bang on the door and yell, "April, it's so and so. Come answer the door!" Nuts I tell ya'! This is just one example of my sister "kidding about something like this" so ya', she would joke about something like this!!------

So I run in here and check my email and sure enough she's right. Well, she's ready to just purchase new tickets because she doesn't think that SouthWest will help me. I say, "No, let me at least see what I can do." Shaking on the inside because I didn't know what would happen. They could say, Sorry about your luck, Chuck. So, doubting "Tammy" over there says, "OK but, you need to get these tickets before they sell out if they can't help you."

So, I call SouthWest and the lady who answered was really nice but couldn't do anything for me. She could only make reservations from their screen. She said I needed to talk to someone in Customer Relations and they didn't open for another half hour. She said they have all the power to do these things and truthfully, it could go either way depending on who you got. "Oh, great," I thought, "Just what I need to hear."
I had a whole half hour to wait and I'm praying and stomach is churning because I feel like a big oaf!! I was so happy about those fares and now for us not to have them!! Blech, goes my stomach.

9:00AM arrives and I actually wait until 9:02 to call. I get a nice girl named Jennifer and I start out by saying, "Jennifer, I am going to help you win the award for having the dumbest Southwest customer call today." And she laughs and says, "Uh-Oh. And you're my first one."

So, I say in my best dramatic full of excitement and intrigue voice, "Jennifer, picture this. I was on my way out to help my husband mow the grass when I come in to the computer for one last check of my email when I see a little DING! sitting in the corner of my screen so I say, 'What they hey,' and check it. Imagine my surprise when I see fares for $39 down and back from my city to Orlando!! I was so excited that I called my sister immediately and screamed, 'Are you at home by the computer?' to which she replies, 'No, I'm not! Why?' So I proceed to tell her about the DING! at which time she screams from excitement and says 'But I'm not home!! Can you do it for me?' 'No problem', I say 'but let me go grab my headset so I can have both hands free.' At which time I sprang from the room and did the Happy DING! dance (which kind of resembles the Demented Toilet Sprite dance that you have to do when the electric eye won't flush the toilet) looking for my headset --Jennifer is cracking up by now so I continue my tale -- I scared the cat but I was so happy I didn't care. I found the headset and ran back to my sister. I, thinking I was so smart wanted to make sure we had the exact same page so you know how you go up to file -->new-->window and it opens a mirror image of the page you're working on? --To which Jennifer, laughing, says "Yes."-- Well, that's what I did because I needed to make sure I didn't mess anything up. --To which Jennifer is still laughing-- In the meantime, I say, my husband walks in to see why I haven't come outside and I yell, 'DON'T TALK TO ME.' He gives me an indignant look and walks out but I couldn't worry about that right then. I had a DING! to secure. When I finished with the DING! I ran out to my husband and was dancing all over the deck and the neighbors were watching but I didn't care because I got a great DING! and my husband wasn't aggrivated with me anymore about the grass because I secured such a terrific DING! Jennifer, I said, it took a while for the adrenaline to go down last night but I did sleep good. So imagine my surprise when my sister calls this morning and tells me I booked the whole thing backward!! That is my dilemma today. I really need you to help me if you can."

Jennifer is just laughing and having a good time and she calls up last nights DING! (because remember Customer Relations has the power to do anything) and sees that my fares were indeed available flying from Philly to Orlando and promptly fixes it for us and I still have my $39 DING! down and back. Talk about nervous! It could have gone either way. She could've said, "Sorry bout you luck." But, thankfully she didn't.

So, there's my story. Now, I've got to go run the roads for errands. Who knows when I'll get caught up. Maybe tomorrow.

 

[pozey]

Good morning everyone!!

A BIG to mommyintn, jaycat, and markandtrish. Stop in and chat any time!!

Hey hey chick-a-dees and chick-a-dude--

I can see Pozey in my head right now (or at least what I think he looks like), slapping his forehead, saying "oye". Does Mrs. Pozey know you hang out with all of us crazy girlies??

I think I can honestly say I have never uttered the word "oye". I am pretty sure I have slapped my forehead and said something, but I can be pretty sure it wasn't "oye". I am pretty much a southerner through and through. Sometimes a southern gentleman......sometimes just a southerner... No.....I'm just kidding......momma always told me to be a gentleman around all women.

I've got to go scavange for school supplies today, I went to Target a few days ago and NO GLUE. I saw the empty tub where the glue used to be (and it was huge), can't help but thinking some folks are stocking up for next year too!

Yeah, I am probably going to have to get school supplies rounded up this weekend. School starts here on the 17th, and I got the list the school put out. Most of the stuff we still have leftover from last year. I just have to find it.

I loved hearing everyone's stories. If anyone has any other stories....bring 'em on.

And to the people who think they are "boring"......I bet you have more interesting stories to tell than you think.

 

[Tinkerbell_Girl]

April- I'm glad they fixed everything! I loved your story you told Jennifer!

 

[lyzziesmom]

Aaaack, school supplies. I shopped early but there were still a few things on the list that mystified me, so Lyzzie will have to go to school with *gasp!* incomplete supplies. Pozey, school starts here on the 17th as well. Why do they start on a Thursday? That just seems silly. When I lived in FL we would always start at the end of the week too, more often than not the week before Labor Day. So it's like, ok we're back in school.... we have a day off!! How odd.

Things have been relatively uneventful around here. Not that I'm complaining, I rather like when that happens!

Ok so it's not gourmet, and it's not on WW, but I will treat you all to my favorite breakfast this morning:

It looks a lot better than my usual breakfast of a glass of French Vanilla SlimFast.

Almost forgot to add: April, you are a great storyteller!! That was hilarious -- and scary. It's a good thing you made Jennifer laugh so much, that's probably what made the difference in the level of service. If you had just called and demanded help (and I'm not saying you would) she would have told you to take a long walk off a short pier. I'm so glad you kept your great rate, I would have been FREAKING OUT!!

 

[ForTheLoveofDisney]

Aaaack, school supplies. I shopped early but there were still a few things on the list that mystified me, so Lyzzie will have to go to school with *gasp!* incomplete supplies. Pozey, school starts here on the 17th as well. Why do they start on a Thursday? That just seems silly. When I lived in FL we would always start at the end of the week too, more often than not the week before Labor Day. So it's like, ok we're back in school.... we have a day off!! How odd.

Things have been relatively uneventful around here. Not that I'm complaining, I rather like when that happens!

Ok so it's not gourmet, and it's not on WW, but I will treat you all to my favorite breakfast this morning:

It looks a lot better than my usual breakfast of a glass of French Vanilla SlimFast.

Almost forgot to add: April, you are a great storyteller!! That was hilarious -- and scary. It's a good thing you made Jennifer laugh so much, that's probably what made the difference in the level of service. If you had just called and demanded help (and I'm not saying you would) she would have told you to take a long walk off a short pier. I'm so glad you kept your great rate, I would have been FREAKING OUT!!

"MMMMM, doughnuts." said in my best Homer Simpson voice.

Thanks, lyzziesmom. I was freaking out. . . on the inside. I need to write a great letter to Southwest complementing not only Kathy (the first nice girl I talked to) but really Jennifer. She really helped me out.

 

[Tinkerbell_Girl]

Ok so it's not gourmet, and it's not on WW, but I will treat you all to my favorite breakfast this morning:

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Thanks Lyzziesmom!

April- We must have talked to the same person- Kathy- she is so nice! When I was rebooking to get my Ding fare last month, she was so helpful. Not at all like the lady I rebooked with a couple months before! That woman was horrible!

 

[DisneyGirl4188]

April, I'm so happy for you. I have such a fear that I am going to book something wrong.


I just got an email from my AAA TA and it was a little rude (at least I thought; maybe I'm just sensitive today??)

This is the first time using a TA and until now I haven't had any issues. I have changed my reservations a few times (we keep adding days). Well, I emailed her to add Thanksgiving day (she can only be reached via email) and I get a response back stating that "If you think there is any possibility that you might change your itinerary again please consider waiting to request any changes until your plans are firm."

It's not like I have changed 100 times, it's only been four (including this change). One of the changes was due to her giving me the wrong information, so I am responsible for 3 changes. I booked this trip in Jan. so I didn't think that in 8 months three changes were bad. Is it??? I hate bothering people and would book the trip myself, but I can't get the AAA discount if I do.

Am I just being sensitive today??

 

[lindakmonty]

Amber...that ta was absolutely rude !!! I'd have to tell her...well I can always take my $ elsewhere! that is b.s.!!! I always had rude people from AAA too.... I dropped them. Volvo gives you free roadside service and there are so many great ta's that AAA just doesn't cut it for me anymore... Wow...Sorry she was so rude to you

April.... sounds like something my sister would do to me...glad Jennifer was pleasand and got it all worked out for you. Good thing you didn't get to the airport and then figure it out

lyzziesmom.... yummmm I loved the boston creme ...thank you

pozey... you have a wonderful mother! 4 boys... that poor lady

 

[pozey]

Girls and Guy,

I just had to post this after the drama was over.

And boy was it drama!!

You won't believe what I did because I can hardly believe what I did!!

Yesterday morning I was making my WW bread toast (1 pt. for 2 slices ) when my DSis calls and says, "April, you need to go check your email," in a panicked voice. So I say, "What's wrong?" And she says, "You booked our flights backward!! You've got us flying out of Orlando into Philly and leaving Philly and flying back to Orlando!!"

"WHAT???", I say. "Shutup!! This is not funny!!" And she responds with, "I'm not kidding. Would I joke about something like this?"
------Sidenote!! Aahhh, yes she would!! She does it ALL the time!! I have a psycho neighbor across the street who is just crazy !! And my DSis will say stuff all the time like, "So and So across the street stopped me before I got here and wants to know what your problem is. She's on her way over." Which would not be far fetched because she is crazy and has been known to scream from across the street (when I had dial-up and the line was busy and she couldn't get through), "Pick up your darn phone!! Hang up and call me!!" Like a lunatic. And we have acre lots seperated by a road so she was screaming. And she's been known to come over unannounced and ring the doorbell and then proceed to bang on the door and yell, "April, it's so and so. Come answer the door!" Nuts I tell ya'! This is just one example of my sister "kidding about something like this" so ya', she would joke about something like this!!------

So I run in here and check my email and sure enough she's right. Well, she's ready to just purchase new tickets because she doesn't think that SouthWest will help me. I say, "No, let me at least see what I can do." Shaking on the inside because I didn't know what would happen. They could say, Sorry about your luck, Chuck. So, doubting "Tammy" over there says, "OK but, you need to get these tickets before they sell out if they can't help you."

So, I call SouthWest and the lady who answered was really nice but couldn't do anything for me. She could only make reservations from their screen. She said I needed to talk to someone in Customer Relations and they didn't open for another half hour. She said they have all the power to do these things and truthfully, it could go either way depending on who you got. "Oh, great," I thought, "Just what I need to hear."
I had a whole half hour to wait and I'm praying and stomach is churning because I feel like a big oaf!! I was so happy about those fares and now for us not to have them!! Blech, goes my stomach.

9:00AM arrives and I actually wait until 9:02 to call. I get a nice girl named Jennifer and I start out by saying, "Jennifer, I am going to help you win the award for having the dumbest Southwest customer call today." And she laughs and says, "Uh-Oh. And you're my first one."

So, I say in my best dramatic full of excitement and intrigue voice, "Jennifer, picture this. I was on my way out to help my husband mow the grass when I come in to the computer for one last check of my email when I see a little DING! sitting in the corner of my screen so I say, 'What they hey,' and check it. Imagine my surprise when I see fares for $39 down and back from my city to Orlando!! I was so excited that I called my sister immediately and screamed, 'Are you at home by the computer?' to which she replies, 'No, I'm not! Why?' So I proceed to tell her about the DING! at which time she screams from excitement and says 'But I'm not home!! Can you do it for me?' 'No problem', I say 'but let me go grab my headset so I can have both hands free.' At which time I sprang from the room and did the Happy DING! dance (which kind of resembles the Demented Toilet Sprite dance that you have to do when the electric eye won't flush the toilet) looking for my headset --Jennifer is cracking up by now so I continue my tale -- I scared the cat but I was so happy I didn't care. I found the headset and ran back to my sister. I, thinking I was so smart wanted to make sure we had the exact same page so you know how you go up to file -->new-->window and it opens a mirror image of the page you're working on? --To which Jennifer, laughing, says "Yes."-- Well, that's what I did because I needed to make sure I didn't mess anything up. --To which Jennifer is still laughing-- In the meantime, I say, my husband walks in to see why I haven't come outside and I yell, 'DON'T TALK TO ME.' He gives me an indignant look and walks out but I couldn't worry about that right then. I had a DING! to secure. When I finished with the DING! I ran out to my husband and was dancing all over the deck and the neighbors were watching but I didn't care because I got a great DING! and my husband wasn't aggrivated with me anymore about the grass because I secured such a terrific DING! Jennifer, I said, it took a while for the adrenaline to go down last night but I did sleep good. So imagine my surprise when my sister calls this morning and tells me I booked the whole thing backward!! That is my dilemma today. I really need you to help me if you can."

Jennifer is just laughing and having a good time and she calls up last nights DING! (because remember Customer Relations has the power to do anything) and sees that my fares were indeed available flying from Philly to Orlando and promptly fixes it for us and I still have my $39 DING! down and back. Talk about nervous! It could have gone either way. She could've said, "Sorry bout you luck." But, thankfully she didn't.

So, there's my story. Now, I've got to go run the roads for errands. Who knows when I'll get caught up. Maybe tomorrow.

Wow. I am so glad you got everything all worked out! Whew!

And lyzziesmom......thanks for the donuts!!

 

[mommyintn]

April--You wit totally saved the day! Our school starts Friday, this Friday and can you believe it's a 1/2 day? What up with that? I could have a full week of Summer non-scheduled day. My ds (Connor) is excited starting 2nd grade and said "I wish the first day was a whole day instead of a 1/2 day!" That is because no-recess on 1/2 day.

 

[DznyFan]

Lyzziesmom - thanks for the Krispy Kremes....

April, I was laughing at your SWA story - I'm sure you made her day with your colorful commentary! And you still managed to get your awesome DING rate!

 

[Tinkerbell_Girl]

April, I'm so happy for you. I have such a fear that I am going to book something wrong.


I just got an email from my AAA TA and it was a little rude (at least I thought; maybe I'm just sensitive today??)

This is the first time using a TA and until now I haven't had any issues. I have changed my reservations a few times (we keep adding days). Well, I emailed her to add Thanksgiving day (she can only be reached via email) and I get a response back stating that "If you think there is any possibility that you might change your itinerary again please consider waiting to request any changes until your plans are firm."

It's not like I have changed 100 times, it's only been four (including this change). One of the changes was due to her giving me the wrong information, so I am responsible for 3 changes. I booked this trip in Jan. so I didn't think that in 8 months three changes were bad. Is it??? I hate bothering people and would book the trip myself, but I can't get the AAA discount if I do.

Am I just being sensitive today??

Amber- your not being too sensitive- she was just rude!

 

[mommyintn]

Krispy Kreme melts like butta' in your mouth, yummy! I remember in my early 20's (when my metabolism was super-charged and I could eat fast food everyday and lose weight) that I was at work one morning eating one of those oblong doughnuts with chocolate on the top filled with creme of course! And one of my co-workers pointed out to me that eating one of those was the equal to eating a whole loaf of bread. WHY would you steal my joy and who really wants to know that information? Doughnuts are like a slice of heaven, so thanks for those!!

 

[DznyFan]

I just got an email from my AAA TA and it was a little rude (at least I thought; maybe I'm just sensitive today??)

This is the first time using a TA and until now I haven't had any issues. I have changed my reservations a few times (we keep adding days). Well, I emailed her to add Thanksgiving day (she can only be reached via email) and I get a response back stating that "If you think there is any possibility that you might change your itinerary again please consider waiting to request any changes until your plans are firm."

No, you're not overly sensitive - that's just rude. She is in a service industry - IMO that means accomodating your customer. So you want to add a day here and a day there - that is certainly your prerogative, and you certainly don't want to run the risk of no availability should you "wait" to make the changes!

 

[mommyintn]

Amber, that is pretty rude for a TA. They should love what they are doing and get excited with you. Just become an at home TA, I started in May and I'm going to be booking my brothers family's WDW vacation which is exciting to me. I think AAA needs to hire more of us DIS'ers for those positions or they'll be losing customers. There is a thread on here about great AAA agents (you don't have to use one in your area), maybe try one of them.