Rebate Stuff (American Telecom, Rebatestatus.com, And XG/MGE D-Day), UBMe #5 (Mind Your Own Business), and The Unsung Hero of Sandwiches
Quick-hitters:
- I just made myself a tuna fish sandwich, and I can’t believe I forgot to add chopped tomato!
Argh!
(Much more on sandwiches later.)
- Current rebate-o-meter: $1600 and rising.
Quite possibly for the first time in my life, I am actually up-to-date with my filing of rebates!
- You can add the latest round of douche-baggy WalMart commercials to the ever growing list of commercials that I could live without.
- Some interesting news on the rebate front:
1) I made mention recently that I got my $25 rebate—issued by Fry’s—for an American Telecom Systems phone that I bought months ago:
(Speaking of Fry’s, I got my $25 rebate check for the ATS phone rebate I was being scammed out of. Now if only they would stop using DHL…)
Interestingly enough, I got an email from AmericanTelecomServices@cs.rebatestatus.com with the subject “Your rebate from American Telecom Services, Inc.” on Wednesday. Strange…I was almost certain that rebate-zone.com was the company that handled ATS rebates, and a quick check of my rebate PDFs showed that I was correct.
Nevertheless, I clicked the link in the email, and here’s the status of the rebate:
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I’ll be interested to see if I actually receive a check. Of course, once I receive it, I will tear it up.
2) Speaking of rebatestatus.com, if only I could get them to respond to the bulls**t rejection of my Acronis True Image Home rebate for $20. Missing UPC? You mean the one I taped to the rebate form itself?
Apparently they have no interest in responding to any of my emails—three sent to them in two weeks.
Stay tuned…
3) Finally, D-Day for my XG/MGE rebate fiasco is Friday. I’m not holding my breath…
- I haven’t done one of these in a LONG time: a UBMe (#5, aka “Mind Your Own Business”)!
You’re sitting at a Subway (the restaurant, not the mode of transport) with your iPod earbuds ons, listening to your favorite podcast. You’re minding your own business in the NE corner of the store, facing the middle of the store—the door is in the SE corner—snacking on a Subway Club on Honey Oat bread.
(Tangent: I ordered a Subway Melt, dammit!)
(Tangent #2: Yes, I looked very douche-baggy, with the iPod on hand. Now I see why people buy iPods :P)
Despite the maxed-out volume on the iPod—between the blaring music and the loud workers, it was hard to listen to the podcast without being distracted—you were able to hear the chime on the door as a female customer walked in. You glance over quickly, and went back to your sandwich and Harvest Cheddar Sun Chips.
The woman spends about five minutes before deciding on what she wants, and then she proceeds with her order. While this is going on, you’re trying to listen intently to the podcast (again, over the loud music and the chatty workers).
The woman finishes up her to-go order, and apparently you make eye contact with her for about one nanomillisecond too long (maybe two milliseconds total), because the woman decides to walk up to you and blurt (paraphrasing) “You know…[sitting there with your headphones on] is rude!”
UBMe! W T F? Is there anything worth saying to the woman? Or do you completely ignore her, adding to your douche-baggy appearance, like I actually did?
I would have thrown a chip at her, but Sun Chips are so damn good!
- And finally, I think I unlocked the secret to making an amazing sandwich. No, it’s not slices of fresh tomato. No, even though toasting the bread is a good idea, it doesn’t make a sandwich awesome. Miracle whip? Tangy goodness, but nope. Spicy brown mustard is nice, but not the secret. Cheese? Swiss cheese is good, but nope.
What makes a sandwich go from good to awesomely good?
A third slice of bread.
There is something about adding a third slice of bread to a sandwich that makes it so much better! I suppose it might be because I have an excuse to add extra toppings and condiments on my sandwich. Maybe it’s because the third slice of bread adds a layer of, um, structural integrity to the sandwich. Whatever the reason is, I now have an excuse to eat the end pieces of the every loaf of bread I buy!
(Tangent: My family seems to have an aversion to the end pieces of a loaf. Every time a new loaf is opened, the first slice that is picked out is almost always the second slice of bread. I guess the end pieces are too “crusty” for our liking.)
Damn…I wonder how good a tuna fish sandwich using three slices of bread would be?
I’ll report on that next time 