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no laundry room for the week. i just had two house guests and have a ton of bedding and towels, etc to wash. one company removed their machines today and the new company won't have their machines installed until next week. my building management is so incredibly stupid and don't know how to plan for anything.

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We've had the same home & auto insurance provider since we moved to CA.  We just got a letter from our mortgage lender saying that our provider is below the financial rating they find acceptable, so we have to get a policy from somewhere else or risk getting covered by the dreaded lender-placed insurance (aka The Policy of Last Resort).  A lot of the major insurance companies, like State Farm and Allstate, are pulling out of the CA market and not issuing new homeowner's policies.  We have a potential through N's work, but I did not want to have to deal with this.

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We were cancelled on both city and country properties and are indeed in the hands of "the last resort".  

When push comes to shove, and all the cards are on the table, the last resort looks like gold!    Good luck!

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3 hours ago, StephanieL said:

 A lot of the major insurance companies, like State Farm and Allstate, are pulling out of the CA market and not issuing new homeowner's policies.  

You might try the Auto Club.  Like many carriers they might be cheaper the first year or two before they raise your rates.  But their claims service is very fair.

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15 hours ago, voyager said:

We were cancelled on both city and country properties and are indeed in the hands of "the last resort".  

When push comes to shove, and all the cards are on the table, the last resort looks like gold!    Good luck!

Thanks!  What's been your experience with the lender insurance?

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Nor do we.    Ours was just a search for ANY kind of residential coverage.    Insurers are abandoning California like rats on a sinking ship.    We wound up the the state's Fair Plan, high rates for minimum coverage.

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Well, so far we've found a couple of well-known companies who will write policies for us.  It looks like it's going to be cheaper to keep our auto insurance with our old provider and use the new provider for home only, rather than bundling home + auto with a new provider.

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I had hand surgery scheduled for 10am this morning. At 7am, the hospital called and asked whether I could come in at 9am instead, as the surgeon had had a cancellation. Sure. When I got there, I was sent all over the damn place (twice to the same two floors), so I didn't end up in a curtained area 'til 9:22. By which time the surgeon had decided to operate on someone else. That surgery went long, cleaning the OR took forever, and I finally got sliced at 12:38. Fuck these people.

Also, my hand hurts.

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19 minutes ago, Evelyn said:

18 hour travel day trying to get back from Nashville. Delta has really been having issues lately.

I still win on that one. 36 hours Nashville to NYC. Broken plane, broken replacement, then into holiday travel with everything booked.

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Is it considered political if I grouse about having been on the phone for 1 hour 40 minutes with the IRS regarding a letter from them stating that I had an unclaimed credit that needed to be addressed immediately?   Only to find that they had neglected to apply the amount to timely made estimates?    Told to refile!!????    WAIT A MINUTE!   I filed correctly!   It is you who have not correctly applied the payments to the proper allocations.   Finally, "Oh, yes.   You are correct.   Just ignore that letter."    SLOW BURN.

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Let's go ahead and talk about this remarkable vocal tic which I am honestly hearing more and more -- although it's not new.

I could post this in the Cheerful thread because it's easy to go ahead and find it funny. But I decided to go ahead and post it here. I thought to myself, extending it slightly: "Why don't I go ahead and post it here?"

Why don't you all just go ahead and admit you hear it everywhere? Maybe you go ahead and use it and there's no law against that.

Peak usage that prompts this post. Waiting for my flight in the airport at Austin, the guy calling a flight just across the way was a major go-ahead-Head. Every single announcement he went ahead (ah variation) and made: From "Why don't you go ahead and check your carry on?" to every single boarding call. "We're going to go ahead and board Zone 5."

Not just me, people around me cracking up. Someone needs to go ahead and tell the poor guy he's doing it, he has no idea.

Anyone else hearing this? Why don't you go ahead and let me know.

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Is that a vocal "tic," or just using language in a way which annoys you?

Because I think of a vocal tic (for instance), as the way a whole generation or two of people say the words "Thank You," with some weird inflection when they say the word "you."

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It is my job to be around college students, so I have a front row seat for every catch phrase that briefly takes hold of them. A while back it was "A-mazing," to describe everything. With a mandatory pause between the first and second syllable of the word. 

Then it was "slay," to convey admiration. "I just got new shoes." "Slay."

Now it's "fair," an expression of understanding and agreement. "I'm not inviting her, 'cause she never shows up." "Fair."

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