The Drop in Centre

[rickproehl]

2 hours ago, chris191070 said:

Still no news from the coroner, so I rang them. 

Bearing in mind they collected Dad Tuesday, they only did a covid swab today (72 hours for those results), once we have those they will give me a date for the post mortem ( unfortunately). So it will be at least a week before Dad gets to the funeral directors. 

I did see the funeral directors to mostly sort out funeral, which could be about 2 weeks after they get Dad. So all in all a productive but unproductive day. 

So it's looking like the funeral might not be till May.

Chris so sorry to hear this is taking so

long. Please know we are all here for you. So take care of your self.

[Kitt]

3 hours ago, chris191070 said:

Sorry  if I'm ranting, I've got nowhere else to release at the moment x

Wait, no doc in 2 weeks so authorities require a post mortum I can understand. A bit of a delay waiting his turn I could also accept. Annoying but...

Then another 2 week delay AFTER the funeral parlor finally comes up to bat???

Hon, you are not ranting, you are showing remarkable restraint. I would be going full on Karen on them all. Took less than a week for my dad and that included a flight from Florida to New Jersey for the service!

 

 

Edited April 15, 2021 by Kitt

[chris191070]

6 hours ago, Kitt said:

Wait, no doc in 2 weeks so authorities require a post mortum I can understand. A bit of a delay waiting his turn I could also accept. Annoying but...

Then another 2 week delay AFTER the funeral parlor finally comes up to bat???

Hon, you are not ranting, you are showing remarkable restraint. I would be going full on Karen on them all. Took less than a week for my dad and that included a flight from Florida to New Jersey for the service!

 

 

Unfortunately here in the UK, the funeral directors are great but they are only a middle man. The coroner is the legal side and the crematorium are run by the local council.

So in reality we're dealing with 3 different people but with the funeral directors doing the hard work. 

It's a complex system if the death isn't simple.

[Kitt]

3 hours ago, chris191070 said:

Unfortunately here in the UK, the funeral directors are great but they are only a middle man. The coroner is the legal side and the crematorium are run by the local council.

So in reality we're dealing with 3 different people but with the funeral directors doing the hard work. 

It's a complex system if the death isn't simple.

Os a similar situation here, but that is an inordinate amount of time to be  leaving g families hanging.

[mollyhousemouse]

customer: so why is my project taking so long?

me: hi! have you followed up on that list of necessary documentation that the engineer sent on Monday?

customer: oh. no. we haven't yet.

me: ok thanks for the heads up. please look it over and let us know when we can anticipate having that information. we can move along once we have it.

customer: oh. ok. 

me: thanks for calling! it's always great to talk to you.

me: hangs up & bangs head on desk

..... sigh .....

[kbois]

Positivity for today:

In today's world charitable organizations seem to be a dime a dozen. There's a Go Fund Me account for an entire plethora of wants and needs. Many are legitimate, many are not. When you discover a good one.... it's nice to share. 

In the community next door that I used to work at the manager had a title turn in. We're not big fans of these because it usually means the homes are in shit condition. Sure enough, that was the case. 

We heard about Our Next Mission. They're a group dedicated to helping military veterans with housing. They, in turn, partner with Habitat for Humanity. Our company gave them the title to the home, donated money to help with the cost of material and fed the volunteers several times over the course of two months. 

These volunteers completely transformed a dilapidated, ugly "trailer" into a beautiful "home". 

New floors, new kitchen, new bathroom, new siding, new plumbing, new electric, etc. It looks absolutely amazing.

The most amazing part is they have now donated that home to a qualified veteran in need. The residents of the community have also donated furniture and gift cards to the veteran. 

They had a dedication ceremony and the man was in tears over the home and the generosity of everyone involved. 

I'm hoping that if I end up having to take possession of the shotgun slinging resident's home I'll be able to do the same thing. My company has its flaws, but this is a great program to be part of. 

Hope everyone has a good day!

[kbois]

10 minutes ago, mollyhousemouse said:

customer: so why is my project taking so long?

me: hi! have you followed up on that list of necessary documentation that the engineer sent on Monday?

customer: oh. no. we haven't yet.

me: ok thanks for the heads up. please look it over and let us know when we can anticipate having that information. we can move along once we have it.

customer: oh. ok. 

me: thanks for calling! it's always great to talk to you.

me: hangs up & bangs head on desk

..... sigh .....

Customer Service....like trying to herd a village of idiots with a blind sheepdog. 

[Mikiesboy]

7 minutes ago, kbois said:

Positivity for today:

In today's world charitable organizations seem to be a dime a dozen. There's a Go Fund Me account for an entire plethora of wants and needs. Many are legitimate, many are not. When you discover a good one.... it's nice to share. 

In the community next door that I used to work at the manager had a title turn in. We're not big fans of these because it usually means the homes are in shit condition. Sure enough, that was the case. 

We heard about Our Next Mission. They're a group dedicated to helping military veterans with housing. They, in turn, partner with Habitat for Humanity. Our company gave them the title to the home, donated money to help with the cost of material and fed the volunteers several times over the course of two months. 

These volunteers completely transformed a dilapidated, ugly "trailer" into a beautiful "home". 

New floors, new kitchen, new bathroom, new siding, new plumbing, new electric, etc. It looks absolutely amazing.

The most amazing part is they have now donated that home to a qualified veteran in need. The residents of the community have also donated furniture and gift cards to the veteran. 

They had a dedication ceremony and the man was in tears over the home and the generosity of everyone involved. 

I'm hoping that if I end up having to take possession of the shotgun slinging resident's home I'll be able to do the same thing. My company has its flaws, but this is a great program to be part of. 

Hope everyone has a good day!

Flaws are everywhere and within us all ... doesn't mean we can't do good.  Thanks for this.

[Mikiesboy]

1 minute ago, kbois said:

Customer Service....like trying to herd a village of idiots with a blind sheepdog. 

OMG that was SO my day yesterday...  

Every single blessed one of them.. like it was let them use the phone day...argh

[Reader1810]

29 minutes ago, mollyhousemouse said:

..... sigh .....

Sorry, but this made me laugh due to the customer’s idiotic ignorance.  As for you molly, I feel your frustration and I see your eye roll all the way from Texas.  

[Reader1810]

33 minutes ago, kbois said:

Positivity for today:

In today's world charitable organizations seem to be a dime a dozen. There's a Go Fund Me account for an entire plethora of wants and needs. Many are legitimate, many are not. When you discover a good one.... it's nice to share. 

In the community next door that I used to work at the manager had a title turn in. We're not big fans of these because it usually means the homes are in shit condition. Sure enough, that was the case. 

We heard about Our Next Mission. They're a group dedicated to helping military veterans with housing. They, in turn, partner with Habitat for Humanity. Our company gave them the title to the home, donated money to help with the cost of material and fed the volunteers several times over the course of two months. 

These volunteers completely transformed a dilapidated, ugly "trailer" into a beautiful "home". 

New floors, new kitchen, new bathroom, new siding, new plumbing, new electric, etc. It looks absolutely amazing.

The most amazing part is they have now donated that home to a qualified veteran in need. The residents of the community have also donated furniture and gift cards to the veteran. 

They had a dedication ceremony and the man was in tears over the home and the generosity of everyone involved. 

I'm hoping that if I end up having to take possession of the shotgun slinging resident's home I'll be able to do the same thing. My company has its flaws, but this is a great program to be part of. 

Hope everyone has a good day!

This is beyond awesome! Thanks for sharing this with us.  

Edited April 16, 2021 by Reader1810

[mollyhousemouse]

34 minutes ago, Reader1810 said:

Sorry, but this made me laugh due to the customer’s idiotic ignorance.  As for you molly, I feel your frustration and I see your eye roll all the way from Texas.  

i'm glad it gave you a laugh Reader. yeah that eye roll gets me in trouble regularly, lol!

[Kitt]

Here is an eye roll Chris should be able to the across the Atlantic.

 

You guys know I resigned my position at the barn more than 6 months ago. This morning I get a call from the grain supplier. No one placed an order this week, and they want to know if we need grain before the driver goes home for the weekend. 

 

Ummmm...  

I don't work there anymore. You have to call Steve. We did but no one called back.

[chris191070]

52 minutes ago, Kitt said:

Here is an eye roll Chris should be able to the across the Atlantic.

 

You guys know I resigned my position at the barn more than 6 months ago. This morning I get a call from the grain supplier. No one placed an order this week, and they want to know if we need grain before the driver goes home for the weekend. 

 

Ummmm...  

I don't work there anymore. You have to call Steve. We did but no one called back.

That's comical 

[spyke]

2 hours ago, Kitt said:

Here is an eye roll Chris should be able to the across the Atlantic.

 

You guys know I resigned my position at the barn more than 6 months ago. This morning I get a call from the grain supplier. No one placed an order this week, and they want to know if we need grain before the driver goes home for the weekend. 

 

Ummmm...  

I don't work there anymore. You have to call Steve. We did but no one called back.

Really??    

[Kitt]

2 hours ago, chris191070 said:

That's comical 

 

1 hour ago, spyke said:

Really??    

That's pretty much what I was up against for the last 6 months I worked there.  

Little birdie called late this afternoon to tell me she saw Steve pull in with a pickup load of grain.

Seems hubby was talking to Steve last weekend. Hubby asked what it would take for me to go back to work. 

They could not pay me enough! As the cowardly lion said, "Not no way, not no how!"

 

[Ryan Jones]

A nice bright sunny Sunday morning. Can't say warm, there's frost on my car here in Maryland.

I experimented with poker last night. Instead of sleeping 4 hours, getting up at 3am and going to the casino, I just decided to nap for an hour around 9pm, got up at 10pm and went. I noticed that as it got later the "recreational" players (recreational is defined as people who work normal 40 hr/wk jobs) started to toss more and more money into the pot. It was like they didn't want to have to cash out.

So I made $3500, played until 430am when the crowd really died down and then had a nice ride home!

Hope everyone is doing good!

[kbois]

Looks like it's been nearly a week since anyone's mentioned food so here goes.....

I decided to make zucchini boats tonight and can I just tell y'all that they were the best ones I've made to date. Zucchini, diced fire roasted tomatoes, spinach, some kind of white fish that a resident caught out in the Gulf, onions, garlic and seasoning. A little bread crumbs and egg to hold it together with some shredded cheese on top. Hell to the yes!

I really need to remember what kind of fish he said it was. 

Hope everyone has a good evening!

[mollyhousemouse]

2 hours ago, kbois said:

Looks like it's been nearly a week since anyone's mentioned food so here goes.....

I decided to make zucchini boats tonight and can I just tell y'all that they were the best ones I've made to date. Zucchini, diced fire roasted tomatoes, spinach, some kind of white fish that a resident caught out in the Gulf, onions, garlic and seasoning. A little bread crumbs and egg to hold it together with some shredded cheese on top. Hell to the yes!

I really need to remember what kind of fish he said it was. 

Hope everyone has a good evening!

has it truly been that long!?

your zucchini boats sound marvelous! pork has been on sale lately. we had a rack of ribs tonight with some steamed and buttered local carrots and mac & cheese.

[chris191070]

3rd night in a row waking up at 4am. Hopefully get some answers today.

[Reader1810]

3 minutes ago, chris191070 said:

3rd night in a row waking up at 4am. Hopefully get some answers today.

*fingers crossed* for you, Chris. 

[kbois]

Nothing but rain in the forecast for the next two days. Yuk. 

Today is a hard day. It would've been my Dad's 90th birthday. 

Hope you all have a better day today.

[Reader1810]

54 minutes ago, kbois said:

Nothing but rain in the forecast for the next two days. Yuk. 

Today is a hard day. It would've been my Dad's 90th birthday. 

Hope you all have a better day today.

Good morning K. You’ve got rain your forecast, and I’ve got snow in mine. *sigh*

[mollyhousemouse]

good morning. i'm off today. i was supposed to be getting some dental work finished. but the dentist's office called & my crown didn't come in from the lab. we have a BIG week at work & i had already rearranged some things to take today off. sigh .....

i think i'll do some cooking...

@chris191070 i hope you get those answers

@kbois i'm missing my mom today, not sure why it's hard sometimes to navigate grief isn't it

[kbois]

41 minutes ago, mollyhousemouse said:

good morning. i'm off today. i was supposed to be getting some dental work finished. but the dentist's office called & my crown didn't come in from the lab. we have a BIG week at work & i had already rearranged some things to take today off. sigh .....

i think i'll do some cooking...

@chris191070 i hope you get those answers

@kbois i'm missing my mom today, not sure why it's hard sometimes to navigate grief isn't it

It sure is. The past four years didn't bother me. This year does. 

Good luck with the crown.