Yeah, they took my money, without asking me
I asked for a refund and they said, “We’ll see”
Everybody’s trying to get my money
Everybody’s trying to get my money
Everybody’s trying to take my money from me!
I’m sure you can relate:
Politicians spamming my inbox telling me I need to send them money so they can save America.
Scammers texting and emailing me because my Windows is in danger or they’ve been watching me through my web cam. (As if anyone would care.)
Amazon Prime and Apple, two of the biggest, richest companies on Earth want to charge you extra to watch much of their content. (Luckily, I’ve already watched Kim’s Convenience twice through for no extra charge on Netflix; now Prime has it and wants to charge 10 buck per season. Good luck with that.) And Disney+ is about to price themselves out of my budget. I dropped AppleTV because they billed me twice every month, even though I repeatedly told them to stop it.
I went to a matinee at Cinemark the other day and the ticket was $8.75. A small popcorn, small Coke Zero and a box of peanut M&Ms came to $15.
I could go on. Yeah, OK, I will.
Checking my bank statement recently, I noticed two charges from my antivirus folks; one of them was for 90 buck$, which I did NOT authorize, which prompted an angry email demanding a refund; I’m still waiting to hear back from them.
I had been with Allstate since 1995 and their service was great, until it wasn’t. And they got very expensive. Finally, they came up with some stupid late charge for $18.00, which I flat out REFUSED to pay. I tried several times to straighten this out, but they were obstinate and so was I, so I looked around, found a company that charge much less and told Allstate to stick it.
And finally, and this is for all of us, THE ADS. Network TV episodes are around ten minutes less content than they used to be. (I read once that some TV executive opined, “Content is just the the space between the ads.”) Ever notice that the the last half of network news consists of a minute or two of story, then five minutes more of ads? Remember when Facebook Reels were a fun thing to watch? Now, about every fourth reel is actually an ad and they play ads after a lot of the funny stuff. I’ll bet your browser hammers you with ads, as does Windows. I guess selling your data isn’t making them rich enough.
How rich is rich enough?
Do you really think that the petroleum industry will lose money if they don’t raise prices during this conflict? If so, then do I have a deal for you!
OK, that’s enough whining; my rant tank is getting empty and needs to recharge. I’m sure you have your own stories to tell and you can do so below, in the comments section. Maybe you’ll feel better if you diatribe a bit?