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1. about 2 hours ago on Luann

   The Internet can actually help you through basic home maintenance task like fixing a plugged toilet, actually. Do take the time to read (or watch the video) all the way through before commencing the task, though, and I find it’s also helpful to read/view more than once piece of advice on the subject before beginning work.

2. about 2 hours ago on Frazz

   Priority versus severity. How soon do you need it done, versus how bad is it if you don’t get it done?

3. 1 day ago on Savage Chickens

   Arr! Of course, these are re-runs, so he can’t control the timing that well. I bet this was for Talk Like A Pirate Day originally. ;-)

4. 1 day ago on Luann

   Uh oh! Actually, you should tell him ASAP. Always notify the landlord immediately, so it can be fixed before more expensive collateral damage occurs. Also……Les, you need to learn how to work a plunger. They’re not actually all that complicated.

5. 1 day ago on Frazz

   In storytelling, you can be assured that the more detail you hear about plan A, the more likely it is to fail. You will then hear no detail about plan B, whereupon it will succeed, allowing the storyteller to surprise both the audience and the enemy at the same time. ;-)

6. 1 day ago on For Better or For Worse

   Ah, the shoe is on the other foot! :-D

7. 1 day ago on Baldo

   I would consider that a valid reason to move house. :-D

8. 2 days ago on Baldo

   And that’s smart! The evening customer service folks are generally a lot more relaxed, and appreciate the break in the monotony getting to actually talk to someone.

   The downside is that if you need to be transferred to someone in the regular office staff, they might not be able to help you, which stinks because it feels like a bait and switch. Like reading that Walgreens is open until 10 and going in to pick up your prescription and finding out the pharmacy actually closed four hours ago; it’s just the store part that’s still open, so you have to come back tomorrow.

   I was working for a financial institution, and I’d get some people calling at like 9:30PM trying to return a call from their loan officer, or a particularly irate person trying to reach their collection agent. They knew we were technically open until 10PM, but the catch is that although customer service was open until 10, the main office staff generally clocked off by 5 or 5:30. Once in a while you could still catch one at 6, but it was rare. All I could really do was sympathize and then transfer them to the person’s voicemail.

9. 2 days ago on La Cucaracha

   Some of the stores started putting Halloween stuff out along with the back-to-school stuff instead of waiting to clear out the back-to-school stuff first!

10. 2 days ago on Frazz

    “If plan “A” doesn’t work, the alphabet has 25 more letters." — Claire Cook