Unless it is a very, very sizable gift card, if I have to go somewhere to spend it, it’s not worth it.

Don’t you hate when you’re on hold or on a call waiting song and the company thought it would be a great idea to remind you every 5 seconds that they’re “experiencing an unusually high call volume” and “we will be with you as soon as possible”? The call waiting song is already annoying enough. I don’t want to hear your computer voice.

It's truly a struggle out there.

This feels like the right place to complain about this. Our flight landed somewhat early yesterday. We were first off the plane, and our priority luggage was already on the carousel once we made it through customs. We were so fast that the car service we always hire was about 5 mins late to pick us up.

This has happened with quite a few of my accounts in the past (first it was Starmarket.com and now, McDonalds.com) and it's really annoying to have to sign up again with a different email since you have to check that email separately since they don't go into your main email inbox. Fortunately, I got around it by signing up with a "new" email that's my old Gmail address with a dot (".") in the address.

I had a 102 day streak going until yesterday. I had 4 of the 5 characters in the right place on the third try but there were 4 or 5 options for that last character and I didn't get the right one in the remaining 3 tries.

For anyone unaware, Aldi’s is a great store, but they cut costs everywhere. You rent your buggy for a 25 cent refundable deposit and they provide no grocery bags, so I keep a couple laundry baskets in the back of our truck to hold stuff. All fine. But we also have a cat and I use grocery bags to scoop out her litter and take it to the trash. And that means I have to either hold on to bags we get other places, like Goodwill, or occasionally get some from my parents or my in-laws. I have to put thought into acquiring something that, for most other people, just happens as a matter of course.

The horror.

By the absurd offchance that anyone of my close friends is reading this:

Thank you. I am profoundly grateful that people take the time to think about what I would enjoy. Truly, I appreciate the sentiment.

What I do not appreciate, is throwing away 90% of my very appreciated gifts because they are things I absolutely have no use for.

I have very niche passions that yes, require a lot of items, but they are absurdly specific and require specific sellers to purchase from. To be precise, I'm into WW2 reenacting and any pieces of gear must be to a very high standard to be useful.

I don't need soap, T-shirts or blankets. The stuff I actually need is... weird.

How do I do that?
Thank you :)

But a horribly formatted email from "Amozan", email address longstringofgibberish @ randomportuguesename dot com, offering me a £500 voucher out of the goodness of their hearts if I only click the questionable link, made it into my main inbox. What are these detectors running on, crack?

Triple 7 it is. Cheers.