You Know What Really Grinds My Gears? Now with 3x more gears...

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by troutman

III. DIONYSUS BRINGER OF LOVE

‘I bring love to give you solace
In the darkness of the night
In the Heart’s eternal light
You need only trust your feelings
Only Love can steer you right’

‘I bring laughter, I bring Music,
I bring joy and I bring Tears
I will soothe your primal fears
Throw off those chains of Reason
And your prison disappears’

Grinds my gears you made me try to give Rush another chance. Ugh. So whiny. I get these lyrics are probably in there somewhere, but I can't hear them over the sound of the strangled hyena trying to get them out.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by musth

I'm listening.

Tres Maria’s in Maria loop or fiesta market in Mindipore sell prepared meat and sauces and salsa to go either it. They also sell all the peppers to do it yourself.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Grinds my gears you made me try to give Rush another chance. Ugh. So whiny. I get these lyrics are probably in there somewhere, but I can't hear them over the sound of the strangled hyena trying to get them out.

One of the worst bands of all time.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by GGG

Tres Maria’s in Maria loop or fiesta market in Mindipore sell prepared meat and sauces and salsa to go either it. They also sell all the peppers to do it yourself.

Also, Salsita on Northmount Drive and 14th St.

[DoubleF]

Xmas = Christmas
GlenX = Glenchrist?

[SportsJunky]

Costco the Saturday before Christmas really grinds my gears. I'm an idiot.

[PaperBagger'14]

Originally Posted by SportsJunky

Costco the Saturday before Christmas really grinds my gears. I'm an idiot.

I’m going tomorrow for food only. If December wasn’t as hectic as it was for me this year I would have already had a stockpile. Tomorrow is gonna blow reindeer jingle bells.

[Jason14h]

Originally Posted by PaperBagger'14

I’m going tomorrow for food only. If December wasn’t as hectic as it was for me this year I would have already had a stockpile. Tomorrow is gonna blow reindeer jingle bells.

Just get there for 8:30 am

Their hours of operation say 9 . They are not ��

[Barnet Flame]

Last Saturday was my final Costco run of 2025.

[Geraldsh]

There’s a rush when the doors open and they all finish shopping at the same time so there’s a rush at the tills about 10:00 am. Work around those times but don’t get caught in the vortexes around the free sample kiosks.

[fotze2]

Costco should have that fastpass system Disney used to have. Pay a little extra to skip the big lines.

Christmas can’t come soon enough. 36 calls today with work on a nightmare well. So far. More to come I am sure. Gotta tell these guys we are not gonna pay their $30k invoice because it was 100% they’re fault and I hate having these conversations, I’m not good at them.

[btimbit]

Originally Posted by btimbit

I hate banks so much.

Opened a new account for use when I'm in Canada. Opened it online, still have to go in the the branch to verify my id. Annoying, but fine, did that the last time I was in Calgary. Three days after I do it, get an email saying I still need to verify my id. Fine, I go back in to the branch and do it again. Of course no record of my doing it the first time.

Account still locked, a deposit gets returned. Great. 3 days to get that sorted out. I'm back in Calgary this week, so go in. "Oh, it says here you need to come verify your ID" for ####s sakes, here's my driver's license, passport, healthcare card, I am clearly who I say I am open the damn account. Luckily this person was actually half competent and got that sorted. Okay, good.

Also opened a new credit card with the same bank. Should be simple right? Kinda, except it doesn't show up in my online banking. Bring that up while I'm in the branch as well, 'oh it got opened under a different profile, I'll submit a request to have them merged' alright, fair enough, that makes sense to me.

Today got an email that that request was finished, so I sign in. Nope, not fixed. Call in, sit on hold for an hour, get transfered around two times, "Oh it got opened under a different profile, I'll submit a request to have them merged." Yeah no ####. Okay sounds good, I'll continue to wait patiently. At least the card works in the meantime.

Oh also closing my old account at another bank. Did that in person last month as well. "Oh we can't do that in branch but I'll submit the request should only take a day or two." Here we are a month later, account still open, now with a negative balance because I had it at $0 to close it but fees have now come out. Whatever, #### you guys I did my part, don't come calling me saying I have an account with an overdue balance I closed that thing in November.

Maybe I'm just too nice and need to be more pushy for #### to get resolved but that's just not who I am.

Originally Posted by btimbit

Oh look, another email from RBC. "Reminder: Your account isn't fully open yet. Verify your ID in branch to activate your new account"

I'm about to go postal here

Tried to deposit a cheque in the app today, got immediately locked out of the account. Try to call, get immediately transferred to their fraud department, which of course is currently closed and only open two days over the next week.


What poster here was telling me it was important to support traditional Canadian banks? Because this is exactly why I was using online banks like wealthsimple, none of this bull####

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by fotze2

Costco should have that fastpass system Disney used to have. Pay a little extra to skip the big lines.

Christmas can’t come soon enough. 36 calls today with work on a nightmare well. So far. More to come I am sure. Gotta tell these guys we are not gonna pay their $30k invoice because it was 100% they’re fault and I hate having these conversations, I’m not good at them.

The Executive membership do offer that benefit again after many years of taking it away. Executive members can get access the stores 30 or 60 minutes early, get their shopping done and avoid big lines.

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by SportsJunky

Costco the Saturday before Christmas really grinds my gears. I'm an idiot.

It was okay at around 3pm today. I park far away and just accept that things will move slow, but the checkouts were remarkably free flowing. The liquorstore was something else though.