My fiance wanted to go to Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio for her birthday this past weekend so I went to look for some hotels. After hours of searching online, I picked out a pretty cheap hotel (thinking we wouldn’t be there but to sleep), I booked it through Priceline. That is the first and last time I will EVER use Priceline again and after reading the ConsumerAffairs.com Priceline reports, I should have done a bit more research.
After booking the hotel, my fiancee didn’t like that it did not have an indoor pool so I tried to cancel since I noticed a banner on their site that said “No cancelation fees.” Come to find out, I would have had to cancel a day BEFORE I even booked my hotel to no incur any fees. How the hell does that work? I booked Thursday at 3 am but the site said I would have to cancel on Wednesday. Why even have that misleading banner up then?  Fine, I decided I’ll stay at this hotel – once again, we’ll only be there to sleep.

Once we finally get to the hotel, the hotel tells us that we must pay them which I thought was a bit weird since Priceline told me I must pre-pay. Anyway, we pay them and have the receipt for somewhere close to $140. When I pull up my Priceline information, they charged me nearly $40 more for the same room, hotel and dates. The day we were supposed to leave, I check our credit card statement online and notice that Priceline has charged us now too, so we’ve got a charge from them AND the hotel. We call up Priceline again, and deal with their HORRIBLE CUSTOMER SUPPORT which offers no help, and tells us we have to get the hotel to refund us and they will not match the price or do anything in regards to the $40 extra they were charging us.
All in all, I learned to never deal with Priceline again or any other “hotel” booking site at that. If you’re looking for a hotel for a trip, contact the hotels directly – never use these online “travel agents” who will do nothing but rip you off then take your money and run.

On a brighter note, I’ll be posting some pictures of our trip and some great recommendations for Sandusky, Ohio.

Bookmark

Second time in a week that you Jehovas Assholes have visited my house. I am NOT interested in your brain-washing biblical bullshit as I just told you this morning when you decided to ring my door bell and wake me up at the ass crack of dawn.

I DO NOT BELIEVE IN “GOD” nor do I enjoy having ANYTHING pushed upon me..like your shitty cult!

Looks like I’ll be going out and purchasing a “NO TRESPASSING” sign and maybe creating my own “NO JEHOVAS IDIOTS” sign as well!

By the way, this was in Westminster, Maryland. Some decrepit old man, young black lady and another old white lady in the getaway car. You know who you three are. DON’T ever step foot on my PRIVATE property again.

Bookmark

So, I’ve got a few things I will be posting about here in the next few days but I just have to post about this.

I have been with Sprint for over two years now, fulfilled my contractual agreement and put my phone on their seasonal standby so I could look elsewhere since they basically told me they couldn’t do anything for me. After looking at AT&T and their infamous iPhone, I decided to go back to Sprint. AT&T plans are ridiculous compared to what I pay at Sprint. So, I visit the Sprint store in Westminster mall and pick up a Blackberry Curve 8330 or something close (I cant remember the number nor do I care). I use it for a few days, it dies quickly and keeps locking up so I go back and find out I’ve got a bunch of programs running. Great, that’s my fault and let’s see if it gets better. It does, except for the battery part, which dies constantly, and the little sticker on it is red. Doesn’t red mean its been wet? I’ve had the phone for a few days at this point and say screw it – knowing it hasn’t been wet, or even scratched at this point!

Well lately, I’ve been getting these appointment notices or whatever you want to call them where it pops up and says “BBQ and Pool Party” – I don’t even know how to add notices, appointments or whatever else into this phone yet since I don’t use that feature. I let it go but this past Saturday, I get another one, “Jessica’s BBQ Party.” What the hell is this? I don’t know any Jessica’s except one and she surely wasn’t having a BBQ and/or pool party. The only thing that comes to my mind is this phone was refurbished and not completely cleared out before it was sold.

I wish there was a way to find out if this was a refurb that I bought AS NEW but I doubt there is. Guess that’s why I got a $100 mail in rebate, in addition to them trying to unload the older phones so they could bring out the new Curve.

Bookmark

Figured I’d update my shitty week so far -

Comcast – STILL waiting on them to dig my lines. Been 3 weeks now when it was supposed to be done in 7-10 days. Comcast, your company fucking sucks and if Verizon wasn’t so god dammed slow and still take a week+ to isntall, I’d be GONE! YOU ARE COSTING ME MASSIVE MONEY SINCE I CAN HARDLY WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If I don’t get a call from one of your adminsitrative people today LIKE I WAS PROMISED ONCE AGAIN, all hell is going to break loose.

Payroll – Yay, I get paid and money gets taken back out…wonderful for the bills I just paid. And no, I’m not broke, I’ve got more bank accounts than you can shake a stick at and my money is quite divided.

Sprint Aircard – My computer doesn’t move but my service goes in and out constantly..I don’t get it! Sometimes your decent and other times it takes me literally 3-5 mins to load a single page.

Bookmark

Figured I’d post this too before I forget.

A nice neighbor who recently left this place (Do you really need to know why?) was talking to me about a month or two ago and I remember him speaking of the infestation in his apartment. He made multiple complaints to the health dept AND the idiot managers/employees at the Preserve @ Owings Crossing leasing center…and guess what? NOTHING WAS DONE! Imagine that. They could give two shits about anyone here. All they care about is their paycheck but its funny because every time I go in the leasing center, there is someone new.

THE PRESERVE @ OWINGS CROSSING IS INFESTED WITH ROACHES!

Yeah, you read it right, roaches and NOTHING was done. No wonder he wanted to move. Now I’m lucky enough not to have any creatures crawling through my house but have also read some reviews on these horrible apartments that mentioned bugs…How does this place stay afloat?

If you haven’t noticed Preserve @ owings crossing – I am going to literally OWN every single search term for apartments in Reisterstown along with any having to do with your name and your parent company. I will spend my valuable time just to make sure I can get at least one person to ditch this section 8 property. I hope you guys have an SEO GOD to pull you out of this one. -laugh-

Here is a nice little list of big search terms in Google for apartments in Baltimore that I’ll use to my advantage:

baltimore apartments
baltimore apartment
apartments in baltimore
baltimore md apartments
baltimore apartments for rent
baltimore maryland apartments
apartment in baltimore
apartments in baltimore md
apartments for rent in baltimore
baltimore county apartments

Bookmark

As you can tell, I hate The Preserve at Owings Crossing in Reisterstown, Maryland from my recent posts and I have to say, I am more then ecstatic for my settlement tomorrow!!!

Two years in this horrible apartment is more then enough time and I am ready to get to my HUGE house. Hey, may not be huge to you but for myself and Cari, a 3br/3ba and 4 floors + 2 decks is more then enough – not to mention the almost acre of land! I’ll have my OWN driveway and wont have to worry about being towed so the property can pinch every penny out of me.

I will update with some more pictures and all as we move in and get settled in. Things are nuts right now as I’m sitting on the floor with my laptop. Yeah, the couch me behind me – oh well.

Speaking of parking and this shitty apartment complex known as The Preserve @ Owings crossing, I just spoke to a neighbor who also got towed but they got their car out for FREE! Just another thing I can use to my advantage when I SUE YOU IDIOTS! And believe me, I haven’t forgot – just busy trying to get out of here and don’t have time to run to the courthouse!

Once again, I’d like to send a F*CK YOU out to the management and ignorant neighbors at The Preserve @ Owings crossing. I cannot wait to get out of this place and should never never moved here since day 1.

Bookmark

According to ESPN, Pittsburgh mayor, Luke Ravenstahl has a new name – Luke Steelerstahl. I guess he thinks it’ll give some hope to the Steelers this weekend in their fight against the Baltimore Ravens. Even with key players such as Terrell Suggs and Samari Rolle possibly out for the playoff championships and getting six points as underdogs, I’ve still got my money on the Ravens.

Apparently RAVENstahl claims he decided to remove “Raven” from his name as he predicts that the Steelers will remove the Ravens from any chance for a date in Tampa, Florida. Unfortunately, Ravenstahl did not complete an official name cheap petition the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported – he’s still a Ravens fan inside!

It isn’t going to help, Luke but we appreciate your support for the Ravens in wearing a nice purple hat in the picture below! -evil laugh-

Bookmark

Why I even go to this place amazes me. I went out with Cari last night to grab some last minute gifts for the holidays and I made a huge mistake by even stepping foot in Owings Mills mall. This place completely sucks. From every other store being closed to the people working – there’s nothing even good to say about this place. Even the McDonald’s in the food court shut down recently! As if the mall wasn’t bad enough, the people and employees working in this place need five fingers across their face!

So, it ended with stopping by Bath & Body Works to grab a small gift basket for someone which I had eyed up earlier in the night. I walk in, make my pick and head to the counter to stand behind someone making an exchange.  I’m standing there for a few minutes waiting with products in my hand and another woman walks up to the other side of the counter. Cari looks at me and says “She just cut in front of you.” Me thinking like any other normal person said “No, I doubt it. There’s no one working that side.” Damn if not a minute later, one of the employees walks up and begins to ring her stuff up. Do you NOT see me fucking standing there waiting? Is it because this mall is nothing but black people and I’m the sore fucking thumb white guy? I swear black people are just as fucking racist as white people – I don’t care what you say, it’s TRUE! Needless to say, I threw the socks back and put my gift basket back and walked out. That’ll be the last time I ever set foot back in that Bath and Body works or probably any at that. Actually, I hope this whole mall shuts down soon! Maybe they can build something useful like a park…doubtful but anything would be better than this shit hole.

If that wasn’t enough for you, I’d like to point out the cashier at Best Buy in Owings Mills who thought it was professional to chow down and crunch on sunflower seeds then spit them into her bottle WHILE ringing me up! How do these people get away with this shit? I’m not even going to get into the countless times I’ve seen these people texting and playing on their cell phones either…just like you dickhead cops in court!

And people wonder why they cannot keep a job and why they can’t make sales or even be profitable. I think this is one of the many problems with our economy since it sure as hell isn’t helping out any!

Thanks to MS, he told me about two awesome articles which talk about malls closing and stores leaving. Can’t always put all of the blame on our economy. How about you cut expenses and invaluable employees first?

http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/16/news/economy/mall_economy/index.htm
http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/17/news/economy/retail_wasteland/index.htm

Bookmark