Fan thoughts and how can i have such a crappy day without even trying

[cornerofmadness]

I read Sharyn McCrumb's Bimbos of the Death Sun years ago and enjoyed it. It's a frank look at fans at a convention (sometimes funny, sometimes not which if you're honest that's what it's like) and mostly because when i read the murder mystery I pictured Harlan Ellison as the murder victim (having met the man at a con... and some say that's who she had in mind) Well finally today i opened a box and found the sequel Zombies of the Gene Pool (not starting strong but eh better than the other thing i was just reading that I couldn't make it through)

One character had this to say about fandom "Fandom is good about accepting people for being kind and clever, without caring about age, sex, race, or appearance" And you know for the most part that's true. Kerkuffles and pairing wars aside, i've been in fandom 30 years this June and for the most part it's been a very good thing. I've had fandom friends for over 20 years (some even on this flist though I'll spare them the agony of naming them) so yay fandom

Now for the crappy day or WHY WAL MART and FedEx SUCKS
A) i start in the garden center and there's no potting soil except the 14.88$ bag of Miracle Gro mix. I ask THREE clerks who all walk off on me wihtout answering. One finally tells me it's out in the parking lot just come up to the register when I'm ready for it.
B) A student sees me and asks what i'm stealing (i am of course make up less and drove there with the windows down) Damn small town
C) They DISCONTINUED all the Star Trek dvds. They were there last week. I was going to get mom Original Trek for mother's day but didn't want it sitting around the house. ARGH
D) they don't have their sugar free muffins any more.
E) i go back to the garden center to get my dirt...only the ones outside are FORTY pound bags. What the hell will I do with that much. Forty pound for 1.50. I told the clerk do you have smaller bags. She points to the miracle gro and I said I'm not spending 15$. She says it's not 15$. Then why is it under a HUGE sign saying that? (the older couple behind me says we thought it was that too!). So I have 40 pounds for a buck fifty or one pound for 3.50. Um...how about I NOT buy it from you!

I get home and hit online for the stupid DVD's. I check amazon 75$ or 40 used...okay I have a Best Buy at home. I'll just pick them up there. 106$? WTF is Best Buy smoking. That's extraordinary, literally twice what Wal-Mart had wanted. Okay Ebay and pressing my luck it is.


As for Fed Ex and why it sucks. As i"m going to Wal-Hell I see the FedEx guy get out and ring and run. I tell him the guy who lives in that apt is an old man and an amputee that he might want to WAIT a moment for him. He looks at me like I lifted a leg and cut a fart at him and goes slaps on a we were here sticker and flees before I'm even strapped in. Turns out it was ME he wanted. It was my damn cell phone. The old guy's son found me this afternoon. So I call them and say you delivered to the WRONG address. Oh well you can pick it up at the center (i.e. do our job for us) where is that. Huntington WV. Excuse me ma'am that's in a different STATE. You just send his ass back here with it. Not until tuesday since they don't do weekends and I had to FIGHT to get it in the morning because I have to sign for it and I have a doctor's appt 60 miles north of here that day. ARGH

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[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

AIGH.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

that about sums it up

[chaos-by-design.livejournal.com]

I hate it when I get stuff delivered and it turns out to be something I have to sign for. I'm NEVER home when delivery people think it's convenient to drop by. Making me have to sign for stuff is pretty much a surefire way to make me never receive a package.

I like fandom for the most part. I'm not much of a shipper, so I don't really get involved in shipping wars. The only thing that really bugs me is when slashers insist that their favorite slash pairing has some sort of basis in canon, based on what they read in The Celluloid Closet. I mean, I'm fine with slash as a fantasy but generally I consider it a subset of AU since I don't think most slash pairings have any canon support. But that doesn't seem to be a common way of looking at it. *shrug*

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

that's what I said and they WONT change it because the shipper wanted it (Mom's like NO I said NOT to have it signed for)

Actually I agree with you about slash, entirely. About the only place I can say it has hints of canon in my fandoms is Saiyuki and outside of Gojyo's comments that's pushing it too

[0-mother-0.livejournal.com]

I'm with you on the Wal-Mart rant. I have nothing but that kind of experience every time I shop there. I -hate- going there, but sometimes (especially in this area) I have little to no choice. It seems everything is a mega chain store now...

As for Star Trek, I have them on my wish list at Amazon and the first few seasons are $62.99 and come in a specialty (collector) case. Also, amazon has paired episode discs for about $18. Here's a link to their stuff:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_wl/104-7128654-3012753?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=star+trek+original+series

(And it is beyond cool that your mom would enjoy and want them!!)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I found the complete first season on ebay for 30 (let's see if I win them). I'm leery of Ebay. I've only had 3 times for success getting dvd's there without getting a) ripped off b) getting knock off Asian stuff that horrid. This one claims to NOT be that. We'll see. Mom has a major Spock crush 40 years now

Wal mart is the only store within 50 miles, literally. I have no choice

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

Fed-Ex is unbelievable. Really good service there.

I am so glad I do not have to shop at Wal-Mart. I will admit though I spend around 3 dollars per 40 pounds of topsoil because there is only one brand I use on my plants. I am very fussy.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

And mom got her FedEx slip and it has the right address and she paid extra for it. I told her call them up and demand your money back.

3$ for 40 pounds I'd do, it's the 3$ per pound....i'm a little less fussy then again what the heck would i do with 40 pounds of dirt?

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

If I'm putting in a new garden, 40 pounds is nothing. Otherwise, I'll use around two bags over the course of the summer, between new perennials and annuals.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

true. but since my garden consists of a few pots and a grave plot sized piece of land (and I'm stingy with the soil) i don't need too much. some day...

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

I know. Someday though, you will have the garden of your dreams.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i sure hope so. I did when I was a kid. I grew up on the remains of the family farm