CHEESE PLEASE!

I went to Pizza Hut for some fine Italian food. I orderd a larger stuff crust cheese pizza. I had a coupon for a free extra topping., so I told the girl at the counter that I wanted extra cheese as my one topping.

She tells me that I have to pay for extra cheese. I said no I don't. I have a coupon. She said extra cheese is not considered a topping at Pizza Hut.

I said, "WHAT?" What do you mean it's not considered a topping. It goes on top, right. Then it's a topping. Every other pizza place in the world considers extra cheese a topping. We argued for about 20 minutes.

It all came down to this. The corporation for Pizza Hut does not want to give you extra cheese as a topping so they now don't consider cheese an extra topping and you must pay for it.

I didn't even begin complaining about there being no sauce on my pizza. Is that the new thing? Putting no sauce on a pizza. It is almost embarrassing being 100% Italian and eating a pizza with no sauce. Not that I ordered it that way, but that's how it comes. Lift the cheese next time. There is one drop of sauce.

I stopped going to Papa John's pizza because I had plain bare spots on my pizza. This isn't pizza. It's just dough.

Pizza places suck out here in California. The only way to get a good pizza is to go to a nice Italian restaurant and pay $30 for a simple pizza with cheese and sauce.

As you can guess, I am now not going to Pizza Hut anymore.

CHRISTMAS IN APRIL......ARE YOU KIDDING????

It drives me crazy to see lazy people. It drives me even crazier to see Christmas Lights up on April 15th. I drove my street and immediately found 4 houses with Christmas decorations on them. I should knock on their door and tell them, "Hey, it's almost Mother's Day!"

It's pretty embarrassing. Here are two shots:




These are just little lights. Below are bigger lights.
The funny thing is the below house turns them on throughout the year. hahahahaha



AND NOW FOR MY FAVORITE HOUSE AT THE END OF MY STREET:



JUST OPEN YOUR FRONT WINDOW BLINDS JUST ONCE SO YOU CAN SEE THAT YOU HAVE CANDY CANE STICKERS ON YOUR FRONT WINDOW FACING THE ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD. PLEEEEEEESE.

This is just plain wrong!

LENSCRAFTERS NIGHTMARE

The following is a letter I just faxed to my credit card company disputing my purchase at Lenscrafters:



Attn: Credit Card Dispute Dept.
Re: Lenscrafters Dispute

April 12, 2008

Dear Credit Card Company:

We went to Lenscrafters on 2/7/08. We purchased glasses for my son and also a sports pair of glasses so he could play baseball.

Over the next few weeks the lens kept popping out of his glasses. So on 2/29/08 we demanded another frame and new lenses. They let us choose new frames and new lenses and made the next pair of glasses within days.

Then on 4/4/08 my son was complaining of shakey vision and eyes were hurting him.

On 4/7/08 I took both pairs of glasses to my eye Dr. to examine the lenses. He said that this was the worst job he had every seen. My Dr. said Lenscrafters had the wrong axis, Pupil distance, prescriptions, and prism.

On 4/12/08 I went to Lenscrafters demanding a full refund. They said that my 30 days had passed. I told them that my 30 days could not have passed since you have never given me a working pair of glasses.

They refused to give me a refund and now I am disputing this charge.

I have attached the following documents as back up to my case.

1. copy of my original receipt.
2. copy of the trade in for new glasses receipt
3. copy of notes from my Dr. commenting on what is wrong with the glasses and a second note from my Dr. commenting on what is wrong with the sports glasses.

The person we spoke to at Lenscrafters was Monty Yip who is the General Manager in the Anaheim, CA office 714.995.0312. He swore the prescription was correct and refused to give me back my money. He said it was company policy.

Sincerely,
Me

STARBUCKS STEALS TIPS

So the managers/supervisors at ALL the California Starbucks were taking tips that they shouldn't have. Wow!

It seems that there is a California law that states managers/supervisors cannot take any part of the tips made by it's employees.

Starbucks seems to think they are above the law and have been giving the managers a piece of the action. Ouch! I never would have tipped, had I known that. I would have handed it to the employee instead of putting it in the jar.

The San Diego, California court ruled in favor of the employees and estimated that $86m was taken when it shouldn't have been. This class action lawsuit accounts for about 100,000 employees. The judge was even nice enough to tack on interest making the judgment a $100m payout.

Here is a tip for you, Starbucks. Go back to worrying about the customer and stop charging $15 for those music CDs in cardboard jewel cases.

BOYCOTT TARGET!!!!

My friend Adam told me that he bought his son a three-in-one table top game (pool, hockey, ping pong).

Now I think those three-in-ones are eye sores, but he wanted his son to have one and that's his prerogative.

So Adam told me a week later that he realized it was too big and he really had no place to set it up in his house. It's brand new and still in the box. The only problem was that Adam couldn't find the receipt. He took it to Target to see if he could return it for a store credit.

Target said that any item over $20 must have a receipt even for store credit.

Now I remember last year Target gave me store credit for something over $20 and let me pick something else out. Target says that this return policy has been like this for 10 years. Now I know they are lying.

I called the corporate office and complained. They gave me the same story. I told them that Walmart takes back products with no complaints and so does Bed, Bath, and Beyond.

I told the lady that I was going to blog about this unfair return policy and ask everyone to boycott Target. She got really frustrated and dismissed herself from the phone conversation. Her name was Amber and she was no help at all.

There are rare occasions when you don't have a receipt. When the product has a target price tag on it and Target currently sells the item and it's sealed in the box, well then the product should be able to be returned for store credit.

As of today, I will no longer be buying from Target. I just pulled my prescriptions from target. Thank God, too. They begged me for my prescription business and then always took 30 minutes to fill the prescriptions.

I also buy all my DVDs, video games, and music from Target. Not any more.