So a couple of anecdotes to entertain all the poster
nerds enthusiasts hereabouts.
First, my personal assistants' boss visited me today.I'm an atypical client. 98% of their clients are both elderly and suffer moderate to severe dementia. Anyway she's a 24yo grad student. Upon entering my apt., for two minutes she "sang the praises" over my framed MP collection, "wonderful" etc. Of course,I pay her salary but she sounded sincere. She's quite frank about the abysmally low salaries they pay her and my assistants and she's moving into my apartment complex to save money. So I don't think she was BSing me about the MPs. (No there's no romantic interplay here T!)
Second, a non-MP ditty. As I mentioned earlier I was forced to leave my beloved city of D.C. to move to the red-state purgatory of Charlotte NC to be closer to my family. That's the bad news. The really good news is that I randomly picked an apt. just a few feet from the middle of the apt. pool. It was the middle of the winter when I moved and I just picked a random 1st floor apt., didn't care about its proximity to the pool.
As it turns out, on summer weekdays 5-10 hottie bikini-clad coeds hang out by the pool for several hours. Zero cheeseball dudes in sight. On weekends 20-25 babes descend on the pool along with 10-15 hombres. Needless to say, I often find myself gazing at the amazing bounty of beauty just feet away from my couch. No doubt I'm a perv especially since these lasses are half my age but can you blame me?
The average age at my DC apt. was 65yo, by stark contrast. It was perfectly normal to rent all your life and not own a car, totally bizarre scenario in 98% of the USA of course.
Anyways today I ventured out to my porch today to ... er ... admire the view and clumsily dropped my new $1000 iPad Pro two feet onto the concrete floor. No biggie I thought since I had bought a plastic protector for it and Apple vaunts its Gorilla glass. But to my horror the screen was badly cracked and several cracks spidered throughout most of the screen:
After my initial panic subsided, I again thought no biggie , it's probably cheap just to replace the glass. To my dismay I learned that Apple charges $550 to fix the screens of iPad Pros. A local shop quoted me $450. Oh sh*t, I thought. Being a horny bastard cost me $500 today!
Out of desperation I consulted the Google God again and learned that I could buy AppleCare+ for 60 days after purchase for "only" $100, which covers screen repairs for $50. Cool I thought I'll just take a couple of minutes online and sign up. It took me more than THREE HOURS to complete the process. Making a long story short, the total incompetents at Apple required me to run a diagnostic test on my iPad. But the tool button was non-functional in emails sent to FIVE different email addresses. Each time I had to fill out endless forms to get the email sent to a new address.
I finally called Apple. The first person wasted 20 minutes and didn't believe the diag buttons were non-functional in my emails. Finally he elevated my call up the chain until somebody competetent solved the situation. 'Awesome' he said at the end, I guess hipster dialogue is the norm nowadays in customer service.
In sum being a creepster looky-loo "only" cost me $150 and three hours. 'Nuff said. Can you believe you just wasted five minutes of your life trudging through this endless post, ha-ha....
