I've had something similar happen recently. I ordered a new 4k TV back in November for my birthday. With shipping delays, I still hadn't received it by Jan. 10th. I contacted the retailer to get a refund. They made it as difficult as possible. It took at least 4 different tries to get them to finally cancel it. The TV showed up about 2 weeks later, so now I have a free new TV. If they hadn't made it such a pain in the ass, I would have contacted them to send me a return label.
during the texas snowpocalypse, there was a bunch of stuff I'd ordered prior and during (run out of supplies, stupidly thinking it could get delivered) that basically sat in warehouses I guess for about a week. Needless to say, it all got marked as undeliverable because of the roads, and I was refunded. Then most of it came trickling in over the course of a few weeks. I was told just to keep it since they didn't have any record of it being delivered. I've interviewed a lot of applicants who worked at the local amazon distribution center during that time, and they said it was a logistical nightmare for a while after that.
The thing that pisses me off is when they list things as 2 day Prime delivery and then you order it and it turns into weeks before delivery. At that point I consider it a bait and switch and fuck them.
I broke it off with the girl I've been seeing, because I'm about to be on the road for a few months. I decided to handle it by doing all the drugs I have left (an edible, 4 grams of mushrooms and like 2 bowls of weed), and eating my feelings. Highlights include watching "Broad City", which is the hardest I've laughed in years, Mexican food from Chuy's (I know it's a chain, but it's the closest good shit to me), and proving once and for all that cunnilingus cures cottonmouth. It ended with me living a childhood dream of smoking a bowl in the hot tub listening to music, and making two epic steaks (one last night and one this morning). The next few months are gonna suck as remote work ends, but it was glorious.
I survived a MiL visit! My kid adores her so it ain't all bad. Always drama with this one though. To start, she showed up and her car was on fire.
So this just happened- Will Smith slaps Chris Rock on the Oscar stage. Some people aren’t really sure if it was planned as a joke or not, but it sure sounds to me like he connected. https://mobile.twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1508272134216372243?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^tweet
I'm so baffled by this. It doesn't make sense as a bit or as a real reaction. I'm genuinely confused.
The only reason I can find is because Jada Pinkett-Smith shaved her head to cover up the effects of alopecia. But the only way it makes sense to me is if Will made the fastest “getting ahead of the online commentorati” decision in the history of Hollywood. Because the debate now is “actor who can’t take a joke assaults comedian” vs. “heartless comedian makes fun of balding actress”
Wow... I don't think Will Smith is that good of an actor... I think he legit just bitch slapped Chris Rock on stage for making fun of his wife.
The thing that I don't get is why Rock doesn't put a hand up to his face after... if you got smacked that hard, I'd think the natural reaction would be to feel for damage, etc.
I kind of like that bitch slap approach though... the Twitterverse is whining that we need better role models, and violence isn't the answer, etc, but I think this also teaches "don't be fucking cruel to people because if you do there can be real world consequences to your actions."
I had a friend in college who would slap your arm really hard if you made a joke at her expense. She was trying to be “one of the guys.” So when she’d slap my arm, I’d slap her back. She stopped after a while. One night we were at a party and she slapped my arm, and I of course slapped her back. And out of nowhere I was pinned up against the wall with a guy I didn’t know a screaming at me that YOU NEVER HIT A FUCKING WOMAN YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE, while his girlfriend swooned over his shoulder at how chivalrous he was, and my friend tried to pull him off me, and I just held up my hands and said “dude, what the fuck?!?”
And he wins Best Actor! And his acceptance speech is fucking… The Academy and the network fucking love this, I guarantee it.
Gotta say, I'm coming down on the Will Smith side of things. I think it was a dick move by Rock to make fun of her medical condition to the world. Should have stuck with making fun of her fucking other guys.
I'd be more inclined to defend Smith if literally anyone had ever slapped the shit out of Harvey Weinstein at the Oscars.