Subj : Re: Phones To : JOE MACKEY From : NANCY BACKUS Date : Wed Nov 27 2019 21:22:00 -=> Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 11-21-19 06:54 <=- > Yes, but the TracFone lady should have had it occur to her... I'm sure > you weren't the first customer that had done a similar thing.... unless > she was a very new hire... JM> IIRC I even spoke to a supervisor. Then that is odd... :) JM> Oftentimes a problem is a minor one that is over looked then JM> followed by a face palm and "duh!" :) JM> One time I had problems with my first laptop that wouldn't shut JM> down. I took it to the computer hospital the next day with the guy JM> saying, Hold this button down and it'll go off. Duh. Some things like that aren't as intuitively obvious as you'd think they should be... JM> A neighbour of mine has whined and cried for months his phone (a JM> relatively new one) wasn't connecting to any wifi and that it was the JM> fault of the cable company, even though his laptop would connect. JM> (We each have a PW router, and Comcast offers PW wifi away from home JM> as well as free wifi downtown*). JM> I kept telling him the problem was with his phone, if everything JM> connected but his phone. JM> He finally went to the cable office and the woman made some minor JM> change, it worked and he's happy now. Makes sense to me that it was something that needed adjusting on his phone... :) JM> (*At the game Friday I was showing this one fella it was streaming JM> free on FB and managed to get the free city wifi signal. As a test I JM> walked away when I hit a certain area it stopped, but backing up it was JM> on again. I was right on the edge of the signa JM> I had never seen anything like that before. JM> It was like getting a radio signal at Point A but Point B a few feet JM> away is no signal. JM> And it was a strong signal, not fading in and out.) Similar to a rain storm on the other side of the street, and you in sunlight... ;) > (hadn't hung it) I keep mine in the glove compartment, though, so if > I'd forgotten to hang it, you wouldn't see it when you were taking the > photos, unfortunately for me... I have seen some people just lay it > out on the dash instead of hanging it.... JM> If the individual could prove they had a hang tag, even if not JM> visible, the ticket was dismissed with a warning to make sure it was JM> visible. If one were visible in some way I let it go. It was JM> supposed to be hanging up but if on the dash, etc. they got a pass. JM> Maybe a warning to hang it up. Ok. > Yup, you've told that one before... it's a good one... :) Apparently > she doesn't pay attention to the signs and markings.... or thought she > could bluff her way out of a ticket.... JM> Those photo's cut out of a lot of those "but I have one/it wasn't JM> marked" excuses. JM> One time I kept getting this one car without a parking permit but JM> only with a hang tag. It is clearly marked you need both. (Unless at JM> a meter or other pay lot). JM> One day I was closing in on that lot and this girl came running JM> across the street and got in the car. (She was in shorts and had JM> strong legs like a track star). JM> I stopped her as she exited (she hadn't seen me before) and told JM> her she didn't appear handicapped to me and next time I saw her she was JM> getting a HC ticket if on any lot unless she could prove that tag was JM> hers. (Students used granny's tag a lot). JM> From then on she parked elsewhere. JM> I don't know what became of the tickets she owed. Maybe granny paid....? JM> There were times talking to a repeat violator I would say something JM> like "Well Mr/Ms" and they would reply "Smith" or whatever and get a JM> last name. That was used to get their name and link them to the JM> ticket. The office could check the persons schedule and if someone JM> had a class at a certain time on certain days and the tickets matched JM> up, it was a good guess that was the person. It was esp. good if they JM> had out-of-state plates. The odds of someone named Smith JM> Computers are a wonderful thing. :) (something got chopped there after Smith, I think) Yes, computers can make connecting the dots a lot easier... :) > Those are more likely to be accurate than the intersection photo > tickets... as long as they don't get doctored... JM> The city people make sure enough of the vehicle in question is shown JM> to prove its the same car for a closer shot of the expired meter. JM> Almost all our meters are electronic with flashing green for good or JM> red for expired. JM> And in case one doesn't have change, they accept debit/credit cards. JM> I only wish Marshall had those. Maybe some day. It's likely, the way things are progressing... :) > Well, I HAD told you which shopping area, and which end of the little > plaza.... but I'll admit that unless you do know the area, it's easy to > not see the two restaurants at the near end as you approach from the > north.... Point being that you did get there, and we did connect... :) JM> Yep, that was the important thing. And I was on time. :) Yup... :) And we did have a good lunch, and a good time... :) ttyl neb .... Always tackle a small problem *before* he grows up... ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5 * Origin: Fido Since 1991 | QWK by Web | BBS.FIDOSYSOP.ORG (1:123/140) .