Stacerella

While out shopping on Sunday, we decided to stop at Quiznos for lunch. As we pulled up into our stall and undid our seatbelts, we looked up and almost lost our breakfasts. A guy was in front of us, bent over, checking out something on his front tire well, while mooning us. I got out of the car and said, “I just lost my appetite.” The guy stood up, looked at me and apologised. I felt like saying, “You should be, dude. I know ’tis the season to be giving and share your bounty, but that’s just nasty!”

*dry heaving*

Customer: Last time I was here, you were expecting.
Me: Uhh, no. I was just fatter.

*smacks customer’s forhead*

I don’t get much in the way of email anymore because I’m a recluse, but of the few I got this week, one was the most useful I have gotten in a very long time. Facebook sent me a reply to my request to have my account that’s been deactivated permanently deleted. I wasn’t shocked that they buried the method to do it myself on their site and then conveniently neglected to tell anyone. That’s one of the reasons I hate Facebook with a burning passion.

I digress. Since they were kind enough to give me the steps to do it myself after weeks of begging them to do it for me since I couldn’t find a method myself, they send them the following, and I’m posting it so the rest of you searching how to delete your account can do it yourselves, too.

1. Log in to your Facebook account.
2. Click the “Help” link at the bottom of any page.
3. Select the “Privacy” link from the “Using Facebook” section of the Help Center.
4. Click the “I want to permanently delete my account” link toward the bottom of the page.

Please keep in mind that once your account is deleted, you will not be able to reactivate the account or retrieve any of the content or information you have added.

You’re welcome, one and all.

Addendum: It will take up to 14 days for the account to be deleted after your follow the above steps. It’s not instantaneous.

An old-time customer dropped off a load of computer equipment for us to recycle (read: send to the big industrial scrap chipper that will mulch anything into pellets), and in the load as a laptop the customer had for years before giving it to her daughter. He said he had it for five or six years and it was in mint condition. She had it four months and it looks like it took back-to-back tours of Iraq. The poor laptop looks worse for wear on the outside, but when Joe popped the lid, he started to laugh. This is what he found so funny:

Apt, no? Teen angst. Whatcha gonna do, right? The little shits are so irreverant today. :-\

In no way does your calling to see if it’s ok to bring in your PC for service today and my saying it’s ok does that imply that we’ll have it looked and serviced today. Especially when you mention benign things like, “My PC no longer boots.” Just so you know, you’re not the only customer we have, nor will your PC be the only machine in today’s queue. Quite the opposite, I’m afraid. If you hurry, you can still be #6 of the day. And we’ve only been open 1.5 hours! You would have had to suffer being #7, too, if I hadn’t sold that woman a refurb instead of taking in her dinosaur for servicing, so you should be thanking me as you burn rubber to get here to be #6 at this point, buddy boy.