Best Buy Faucet - Do You Hate Them As Much As Me?

I hate the faucet's at Best Buy. They never work. You press down on the top to get the water out of the thing but it only sprays for as long as your holding down. How are you meant to wash both your hands like this?

It really does make life difficult, you have use the same hand you are washing to wash it. Confusing or what. It stumps me I can tell you that for nothing. I often feel like I should be getting my leg up there to hold the damn thing down.

And then there is the paper towels. Now I don't mind paper towels, they are fine, but Best Buy is so cheap you tare right them them as you start to wipe your hands down. I spend enough in the place that I know they have money for real paper towels.

This last time I went I even took a video of my troubles for all those who do not believe me.

Still my favorite store though.

Google Plus - Google+ Invites! It's Finally Open!

Today I finally got into Google+. I know I posted on this a few days ago and was kinda excited to see how it all works, but not sure if it can get up there with Facebook.

I have only been on there for a short time but it looks cool, not sure yet if it's better or worse than I expected. One important thing is getting friends on there.

If you would like a invite send me an email to: marcusmcreynolds@gmail.com and I'll send you one.

Time to give it a go and see if it crashes and burns like Wave and Buzz!

You Took My Parking Space

I receieved this from my Grannie last night and thought I'd share it with you, and I have one very important question for you after you have read it as I think it misses the most important part out.

 YOU TOOK MY PARKING SPACE AT CHURCH 

This should wake us up.

One day, a man went to visit a church, He got there early, parked his car and got out. Another car pulled up near the driver got out and said, " I always park there!  You took my place!"  

The visitor went inside for Sunday School, found an empty seat and sat down. A young lady from the church approached him and stated, "That's my seat! You took my place!" The visitor was somewhat distressed by this rude welcome, but said nothing. 

After Sunday School, the visitor went into the sanctuary and sat down.  Another member walked up to him and said, " That's where I always sit! You took my place!" The visitor was even more troubled by this treatment, but still he said nothing. 

Later as the congregation was praying for Christ to dwell among them, the visitor stood up, and his appearance began to change. Horrible scars became visible on his hands and on his sandaled feet. Someone from the congregation noticed him and called out, "What happened to you?" The visitor replied, as his hat became a crown of thorns, and a tear fell from his eye, "I took your place." 

When you receive this, say a prayer.. That's all you have to do. There is nothing attached. This is powerful. Just send this to four people and see what happens.. Maybe, just maybe, we can get the world to start thinking of who took our place.. 

Do not break this, please. 

 

My question after reading this is what car was He driving? I bet it was a BMW.

 

Cops - They Do Some Weird Stuff And Sometimes Tick Me Right Off

So yesterday (Thursday) evening I was driving back from Salt Lake at about midnight. Now yes midnight is fairly late but not unusual, there was still a crap load of traffic on the I-15. What gets me is why did 3 police cars in total feel the need to tailgate and follow me?

The first one did this just as I got on the freeway at 600 N. He followed me closely for about 20 seconds, then pulled along side for about 10 seconds and then sped off to the next car in front and did the same. This exact same thing then happened at about 3300 S, I think with exactly the same cop. Then it happened again at about 9000 S, this time with a different cop. And then another on Redwood Road between Bluffdale and Saratoga Springs. This one tailgated me the whole way.

Now I understand they may have been looking for someone but why would they check every car rather than specific models? Why did he pull along side, yet not far enough forward to see me, and he wasn't checking my speed, all 3 had their radars on (thank you radar detector).

Why could they not be doing other more productive stuff? Why do they feel they can do what they want, like go from the outside lane to the inside lane at probably about 85-90 mph without using indicators? I mean that 4 lanes!

I remember about 18 months ago in Lehi I came to a 4 way stop. I stopped and a car approached from the right, I kept an eye on it because of crappy Utah drivers (see earlier post) and as I was about 1/4 way across noticed he was not going the 25 mph limit, more like 35, and that it was a cop, with no lights on or siren and that there was no way he was going to stop. I slammed on my brakes and luckily he did too. My guess is he heard that Krispy Kreme had the hot doughnuts ready. Do cops not have to stick to the limit or stop signs? He should write himself a bloody ticket. They seem to like writing them for me and everyone else.

I don't mind cops, but they do the strangest things sometimes and if they want to hold everyone to the law, they better keep it too unless they have a reason, especially when doing something as dangerous as tailgating for a few miles, that is just not needed.

Root Beer - I Think I'm Addicted

I have always liked a good root beer. It is very hard to find in England and so moving over here was amazing, it flowed from every gas station, refrigerator, can, fast food restaurant, and waitresses would keep on filling your glass up even when your done.

Problem is I think I'm becoming addicted... I find that every day for the past week I have had to buy at least 1 root beer per day. If it goes flat I buy a second. Or more. It's good stuff! Right now I have one in front of me on my desk. I'll take a picture right now and attach it too this post.

The best however as pointed out by my friend Stefen is the draft A&W root beer you can get in the A&W restaurants and places. Soooooo flipping good!

Root beer needs to have it's own tag line like "Root Beer - The Drink Of Legends". In fact every time I get a root beer and someone asks what I am drinking that's what I'll say from now on. I encourage you all to do the same.

How Bad Can Drivers Be? Does Anyone Know How To Drive?

I hate bad drivers, and it seems that I am in the worst place ever for bad drivers, they seem to be everywhere. No matter if you are taking a 5 minute trip to the store or a 4.5 hour journey to Vegas, someone will try to run you off the road and kill you. Most of them will be women on a cell phone with 20 kids in the car, or some midget in a huge truck. I am pretty convinced that if you live in Utah for more than 6 years I'm 100% certain you will die in a horrible car accident.

Almost every time we travel to Vegas something always happens, even when traveling the speed limit in the slow lane some retard will try to hit you, usually while on a cell phone. What is it with calling on a cell phone while driving? This got banned in England years ago because it's dangerous, yet here everyone does it and if they are not involved in an accident they cause them. Can you not pull over and call? Can you not get a bluetooth headset? Is your call really that important? Idiots.

What also ticks me right off is when someone stays in the outside lane on the freeway ALL THE TIME. Why? Why do you have to stay in that lane? You don't make any sense. Most of the time these drivers are driving under the limit and don't give a care in the world. No matter what you do they will not pull over, and then when you do they go crazy.

Then you have the lame semi driver who has to overtake the other lame semi driver at exactly the same speed. This of course takes him several miles to achieve and causes tail backs 44 miles long. Then just when you think he is done the idiot who just got overtaken decides that actually he is faster so will try and overtake the damn driver who just overtook him.

The mothers with children in the car are the ones that get me. They feel they have to tailgate everyone in front of them, and slam on their brakes at the last second. Do you not care about your kids? Last year on the I15 coming back from Vegas we were in really bad traffic, passed about 4 accident sites due to heavy snow, cars were sliding everywhere but it's all ok because the crazy lady with the kids in the Jeep behind will be ok, it's 4 wheel drive. Flipping stayed on my bumper all the time, slamming on her brakes each time. Each time I looked in my mirror all I could see was her nose hair she was that close. She only stopped when I got out and told her what I thought of her driving. At which point she switched lanes and nearly slid off the road with her rage.

Why can't people drive? In England you rarely come across such crap drivers. Sure when your there a few tick you off (usually driving Audi's) but nothing like here. Utah and probably most other states need to seriously start educating and training drivers much better.

Dish TV Customer Service - What A Joke

About 24 hours ago my Dish TV stopped working, the signal went out. This isn't the first time. This seems to happen every few months and they always end up sending out a technician (more on that later).

I love how when you speak to their tech team they ask you to do everything any normal person would have already have done.

• Sir is the cable connected to the wall socket? - Seriously? am I that dumb that I would not have looked?
• Is your box turned on? - Now your just having a laugh.
• Is there power to your Dish box? - WTH? Are you kidding me?
• Please unplug your receiver and wait 30 seconds - No way, I would have never thought about that.
• Ok we need to send you a technician - Yeah a technician who comes out like 4 times a year who fiddles with the remote for like 5 mins and all is fixed. Can you really not tell me what he does over the phone?

They just tick me off. And if you respond too fast they tell you to do the damn thing over again. Maybe they are a bunch of retards but I don't think I am.

Then they have the cheek to tell me it will be Friday when they get someone out (today is Wednesday), do they not realize I can't go 20 minutes of my life without TV? 

I also love how for the past 24 hours it has not been working I have been watching movies and shows from the external hard drive. After I call them up however I no longer can as the "feature is not on your account". I call them up and the response I get is "The external drive can only be accessed when you have a signal". OK..... So why have I been able to watch them for the past 24 hours without a signal?

Then later I call up and ask if the technician coming out on Friday can install a second box in my basement. I get the answer "yes". Finally they can actually do something for me! But then moments later she says no. What? Why? Her response "We can not send out a new box until your current system has been restored". Are they having a laugh? I mean they send a techie out on Friday to fix the damn thing and then send another out after it's been fixed? No wonder they charge so much each month.

So I priced up DirecTV, works out cheaper for same programming, with 2 boxes, even after paying Dish cancellation fee, only down side is BBC America HD is not available. But thats ok. 

So Dish, in your face!

Google+ - The Unsocial Social Network

So about 1 week ago Google launched the Google+ social network with plans to rival Facebook. Here is the problem I have with it.

I would like to try it out, I signed up right away on their page to "Keep Me Posted" so that I could get access to the social network. I have not yet been able to access the network as it says "We've temporarily exceeded our capacity. Please try again soon."

Now I do have a friend on Google+ and he sent me a invite to join, I got the email from Google saying I have a invite, I followed the instructions and then when I was on the Google page it said "We've temporarily exceeded our capacity. Please try again soon." What's with that?! I guess you can be on Google+ but your friends can't? Pretty social if you ask me.

Also why would I switch from Facebook? All my friends are on Facebook already. Are they all gonna jump ship from Facebook to Google+? I know that back in the day a lot of us were on MySpace and moved over to Facebook because MySpace became crap, but in this case Facebook isn't really that crap. Sure they have started adding ad's, but then I guess they have to make money, and I'm sure Google will start placing their ad's on Google+ at some point if they are not already.

I guess when I eventually get let into the unsocial network I shall join, but I also joined Google Wave and Google Buzz, yet I never used them.... I just kept to Facebook and Twitter. Let's hope this time round Google+ is worth while, but right now I can't see why I'd use it more than the Facebook or Twitter....

I Am A Genius! - How To Make Your Back Less Sweaty While In A Hot Car

Last night when leaving work I got in the car. It had been a fairly hot day, like nearly 100F hot. When I opened the car door all I could feel was the rush of boiling hot air leave the car and hit me in the face.

Anyway, I get in the car and I begin to drive away. That's when the worst part begins. Don't you just hate it when your black leather seats are so hot that your back begins to sweat like crazy and you can feel yourself slowly getting welded to your seat. It's nasty, like proper nasty. It's like there was a swimming pool on my back.

This is when I came up with a genius idea! I decided to move my seat all the way back (which seemed to create problems with my feet and the pedals, like they would not reach the pedals so cruise control was needed and a prayer that I would not need to stop for a while), I lent forward and turned the air con on high. This way I figured it would not only cool the car down but if I got in a good position and pointed the air vents correctly i could cool the seat down and my back and stop me from sweating like a pig.

It worked! After about 10 minutes, a few weird looks from people I was driving past and a few dicey moments with the brake pedals my back was not as sweaty and the seat was cool! Probably the best idea I have had in a very long time! Maybe ever even.

I now almost want to purposely make the car hot so I can do it again.

What Is The Facebook Poke For?!

So I don't really understand what the Facebook poke is for. Facebook says it's a way to say hello to someone. Why can't you just go to someones wall and say hello?? And then what do you do once you have received a poke? Do you poke back? If so it could go on and on a long time.

Last time I actually poked someone in real life rather than the Facebook life they were not too pleased about it, I wouldn't exactly say it was a good substitute for saying hello.

For the past who knows how many months, probably like 6 months I have been in a poke war with someone. I will win. I will never lose. I think though it's more a question of who will die first more than anything.

I wish Facebook made it more clear what a poke means. Like a "Oi, I fancy you" or "I wanna marry you and have your kids" or "I wish you were dead and I could poke you with a stick". Makes more sense than a hello......

Finally. Air Conditiong Is Working!

Last year I got a new thermostat for the house, it was a pretty awesome one where it had all this touchscreen malarkey and switches from heat to air con automatically and stuff. Worked great for a while then it decided to never let anyone be cool again and stopped turning the air conditioning on. Wasn't a problem, was the end of summer so who cared.

Well this year we had a late summer, which already ticked me off, I mean that's one of the reasons I moved here. Anyway I totally forgot the thermostat was broken.... For the past month or so while it's been at least 90 everyday or whatever the house has been more like 100 at least. As you walk in you sweat like a mountain goat lost in the desert without water and forgot to go to the bathroom before leaving. I swear I have lost like 200 lbs in the last month and I only was 165 to begin with.

Anyway with yesterday being the holiday that everyone here celebrates kicking us English out I decided to kick out the old thermostat and get a new one. I headed to the Home Depot, along with every man, dog, woman, child, hippo, and horsey. It was packed. I actually went to Lowes first but after walking around there for like 30 minutes trying to find the thermostats and not wanting to relinquish my manhood by asking someone I left and tried the Home Depot. I found one, bought it and took the thing home hoping it would work.

On the packet it said "15 minute install". Sounded pretty good to me, and the instructions even said "Quick Install Guide". Liking the sound of that. After about 90 minutes the thing finally was installed. I mean what the hell, 90 minutes, what is quick about 90 minutes? Someone better have been fired over that or I'm gonna touch the Honeywell factory.

Thankfully it did the job, I finally have air con! But this is the part I hate most. What temperature do you set it to? I was up all night turning the damn thing up and down so often I didn't sleep. Even now I'm not exactly happy with the temperature in the house. Proper ticking me off.

A British Guy Living In The US On 4th July

I get asked many times at this time of year how do I feel about 4th of July. I moved to the US 4 years ago from England and as we know the 4th July is the day that the US is the day the country celebrates their independence from the British.

It's hard to really give a answer because it's not like anyone learns much about in school in England, there is a lot more history to learn in the UK that for them is a lot more important. I can't even remember what age I was when I learnt about the 4th July but it was not too long ago. I never grew up with the 4th of July and until I moved here it didn't affect me.

The other reason why its hard to give an answer is because I love the 4th July, get a free day off work, fireworks, BBQ's and other stuff. I mean who wouldn't love that?!

I'm also glad the US gained independence from the British. Otherwise right now I'd be paying a lot more tax, couldn't afford to fill my car with fuel, be 100% politically correct, and also wouldn't have Obama to have a good laugh at when you see his face or when he opens his mouth.

The best is at work when saying good bye to somebody on the phone and they say "have a good 4th" then they realize I'm British (for a year or two more at least) and they don't know what to do or say so they just go "er.. er..." and hang up haha.

So being British living in the US on the 4th of July, I love it, it's a good day, glad it happened and the British really don't care much about it anyway, too worried about when the Germans are planning to take over the world again.

The Fiat 500 - Would A Danny Look Good In It?

Last night me and my friend Danny went looking at a few cars. One of the cars we came across was a Fiat 500 Sport. 

The question is.... Is it a girls car?!

If you were to see this guy drive this car what would you think? Is it ok for a guy to drive this mini beast or is it something only a woman should be seen in?

The black is probably the more manly of the colors on offer, and the wheels on this little RC car are amazing! (However I did not take a photo...)

Let me know! What do you think?!