Check out this review of Menlo Park Library on Google Maps

https://goo.gl/maps/rCkyvmHEhQCjEwho8?g_st=am 

Update: 1 day later I confirmed my hunch : upon arrival i saw the same female employee (dark hair & face mask , maybe Latina or Asian? ) . Walking to the back I noticed at least 2 people with shoes 👟 off . I sat down & worked on my laptop 💻 for 2 hours. During this entire 2-hour period the same lady never came back to the area. And at least 5 other employees walked thru but said NOTHING to the 2 people with their shoes off. Hmmm.

 Yesterday, the gal came back within the 1st 15 minutes I was there as if intentionally looking to "get something" on me. Now I can't fully relax here knowing I am a targeted person ( why me ? What did I do ? I'm a good guy, a nice guy ) 

****

initial entry: Since they decided to come after me "Search & Destroy Style" for having my sandals off in the farthest corner of the library, next time I will be watching to make sure they NITPICK every single other person. You have set the NORM. You must abide by your own rule enforcement now. You can't just nitpick me. you MUST NITPICK EVERYBODY.

SHAME ON Bowen Shih owner of Mountain View Auto Repair 👎😡- Google Search

https://www.google.com/search?q=bowen+shih+mountain+view+Auto+Repair&client=ms-opera-mini-android&channel=new 

I found at least one court case against him which is NOT a good sign.  maybe there's more I don't know. 

https://unicourt.com/case/ca-scl-m-grant-vs-mountain-view-auto-repair-inc-42011?init_S=csup_ltst#case-details

https://maps.app.goo.gl/nTrNjAdX8w4cCGFeA

845 W El Camino Real, Mountain View, CA 94040 

I had been here once before and they changed a starter switch for me. NO problem. Decent price. So recently I was having some new issues and decided to try them again. I called and told them I might be getting towed in and they said they would plan on it. My car was intermittently stalling, and so I had called for a tow truck. But the tow truck took so long to arrive I finally tried starting my car again and it started.

 So I managed to make it a half-mile to Mountain View Auto Repair. Upon arrival I waved to the mechanic and he came to my window. That was a mistake on my part. He first noticed the crack on my windshield (which I plan to replace in December). THen he peeked inside my window as I was describing to him my issues, and he saw lots of "stuff" . Yes, I have lots of stuff in my car.

 It's not a fancy Tesla. It's not perfect, but it's actually in pretty good condition and I have been doing a lot of upkeep on it ($1000's 💰 : recently replaced shocks, struts, sway bar links; last year replaced the rack & pinion; also mass air flow sensor; starter; front hub bearings; brake pads ; and the list goes on). But this Asian guy had already made a negative judgment about me. (despite already over the phone he said he could do a diagnosis and that it would cost $120 . 

I said no problem).

 I may not look wealthy but I have enough to cover ALL my bills and any emergency repairs, etc ). At the end of re-explaining my issues (I pulled the ECU fuse last week to reset the CEL to get it ready for smog and this actually caused some new problems. I thought it was going through the re-learning process but it was taking too long; and now stalling; even though it was running perfect before I pulled the fuse). 

Anyways, it was become increasingly clear that he was NOT really listening. I finally said "Is this something you can do?" He responded with condescension and arrogance "Yes, it is but not with this car" . What ? "Not with this car" . This is not a foreign-only shop. He's worked on it before. I have money to pay. IT was clearly PLAIN OLD-FASHIONED PREJUDICE combined with Asian supremacy (this is an Asian-American shop). He wasn't even hiding it. He was plainly telling me he wouldn't help me, just because of some sort of negative judgment he had made in his mind about me. 

The only problem is that it is ILLEGAL to refuse to do business with a person based on skin color among other things. "The Federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 states that no business (public or private) serving the public can discriminate based on a customer's national origin, sex, religion, color or race." 

IT's infuriating when we get treated negatively by people of so-called "minority" race after all we have done to try to welcome ethnic people. And did I already say, ILLEGAL ? I will report this to the appropriate state and/or federal agency. SHAME ON YOU 😡👎

correction Re: Review of O'Reilly's at 813 E El Camino Real, Sunnyvale, CA 94087

this is a mostly male Latino operated franchise, and they are definitely NOT the most helpful boss dudes. I hadn't been here for a few years; then I was in the area & needed a few things quickly. First time in I bought the stuff I needed, no problem. The Latino clerk with long hair didn't say thanks or anything, but at least he did his job.

So I went out to my car and fixed a few things; then I wanted to do a CEL scan (Check Engine Light) so I went back in. THere was one guy behind the counter. Sometimes waiting can take a long time. I noticed another Latino employee in an aisle and asked him if he could get the Scanner for me.

 He refused and said "He can help you" (pointing to the guy behind the counter). So I waited, and finally got up to the counter and politely asked the fellow for the scanner. He responded "I'll be out there in a minute" . He'll be out there ? I can do it myself. I had my driver's license in hand as well in case he wanted it (sometimes they do, sometimes they don't; it's never predictable).

But I said okay and told him where I was parked. I thought he was being sincere & legitimate, and would come out in a few minutes. I waited, and waited, still waiting. He never came out. It wasn't accidental.

I have never done anything bad here. It was pure prejudice as best as I can tell. I'm sorry I can't change my skin color . THe only problem is that it is actually ILLEGAL to refuse service based on skin color.

"The Federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 states that no business (public or private) serving the public can discriminate based on a customer's national origin, sex, religion, color or race."

This place needs a MAJOR SHAKEUP. The only problem is that they probably have no choice other than to take what they can get. Nonetheless, I will file a complaint and hope for some changes.

-disgusted-

Review of O'Reilly's at 813 E El Camino Real, Sunnyvale, CA 94087

https://maps.app.goo.gl/gdCsJZ2PK5fBDA468

this is a mostly male Latino operated franchise, and they are definitely NOT the most helpful boss dudes. I hadn't been here for a few years; then I was in the area & needed a few things quickly. First time in I bought the stuff I needed, no problem. The Latino clerk with long hair didn't say thanks or anything, but at least he did his job.

 So I went out to my car and fixed a few things; then I wanted to do a CEL scan (Check Engine Light) so I went back in. THere was one guy behind the counter. Sometimes waiting can take a long time. I noticed another Latino employee in an aisle and asked him if he could get the Scanner for me. He refused and said "He can help you" (pointing to the guy behind the counter). 

So I waited, and finally got up to the counter and politely asked the fellow for the scanner. He responded "I'll be out there in a minute" . He'll be out there ? I can do it myself. I had my driver's license in hand as well in case he wanted it (sometimes they do, sometimes they don't; it's never predictable). 

But I said okay and told him where I was parked. I thought he was being left, and would come out in a few minutes. I waited, and waited, still waiting. He never came out. It wasn't accidental.

I have never done anything bad here. It was pure prejudice as best as I can tell. I'm sorry I can't change my skin color . THe only problem is that it is actually ILLEGAL to refuse service based on skin color. "The Federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 states that no business (public or private) serving the public can discriminate based on a customer's national origin, sex, religion, color or race." 

This place needs a MAJOR SHAKEUP. The only problem is that they probably have no choice other than to take what they can get. Nonetheless, I will file a complaint and hope for some changes. 

-disgusted-

re North Branch Berkeley Library

https://maps.app.goo.gl/tUWPWHaFvyM6igee9 

9.22.24 an AFrican-AMerican lady walked up the aisle with her phone camera on and turned around right by me and aimed her camera at me and kept walking. I didn't appreciate it. What's up with that ?

Re Newport Beach library

https://maps.app.goo.gl/FC6JchkMMXNUqh8r6 

I was leaving the library on Sunday evening shortly before closing time, & a mousy little Latina employee ( is she new?) standing by the door said "Have a nice day," as if i was a guest and she was the host. I don't think of myself as a guest at the library which I pay taxes to. I think of myself as using something that I PARTIALLY OWN! Which almost all of us here partially own unless I guess if you're from out of state. But if the library receives Federal funding which they probably do then even out-of-state people are partial owners as well.  

And I definitely don't think of her as the host. I don't need her welcome in the morning or her "have a nice day" in the evening. And we don't need somebody standing at the door as we leave. 

And I want to encourage management to be very careful about hiring too many persons of a specific ethnicity (which I will not name, but they are the actual majority in Southern California now) because once they get in to any establishment they gradually take over in subtle ways. And then it's all over. Newport Beach is our last hope. Stand strong 💪 👍

re Firestone Complete Auto Care, Tustin Ave, Santa Ana CA

Firestone Complete Auto Care on Google Maps
https://maps.app.goo.gl/HUs5cvg3Q2qR86jXA

i just don't like it that they call me "boss" on the paper that tells the mechanic what is the issue that the "customer" is concerned about. I am a customer or client or patron, not "the boss" and not your boss. I don't pretend to be the boss or the authority etc. In my experience, calling a person "boss" is a little bit snarky. Please don't keep doing it. 

Balboa branch library , Newport Beach

https://maps.app.goo.gl/RijotFKYbD5yPXbF8 

The little USB plug for the scanner was out of order on 8.17.24 . The skinny little gal came over & she already knew about it. So why not simply put a note on it ? Is that too much to ask? Then she says "Your more than welcome to use a computer". I have my own freakin computer sweetie . I didn't come here because I wanted to use a free computer. And I Don't need YOUR invitation to use something in MY OWN LIBRARY . It's not your personal library sweetie. It's All of ours, especially those of us who have invested in the community. 

Freakin Ralphs grocery store 👎👎👎

https://maps.app.goo.gl/StthhSd7C1R6M17G9 

Ralphs has effin flagged me as a potential shoplifter even though I've NEVER shoplifted. Every single effin time I go thru self '- checkout using my phone number,- at the end it makes me wait saying "Help is on the way". I confronted the guy about it and he refused to say anything. I don't buy bags and don't bring my own, so at the end of shopping I put the items back in the cart to take to my car. One time after scanning I clicked on "skip bagging" and put it right back in the cart. This flagged me even though that's what skip bagging is all about. He came over and it shows a little video of me on the screen putting the item back in the cart (after scanning). That little screen is video taping everything you do. Creepy. Anyways, ever since then I have to wait for the clerk to clear me before I can checkout. It's total paranoid BS. SO I will simply change my shopper number if they won't clear it themselves. Bunch of freakin creeps 👎. Another symptom of the end of America 

8/14/24 my complaint re patron at NBPL (newport beach main library)

on 8.13.24 I found a nice spot (or so I thought) in the southeast corner of the library (2nd floor) as the library was opening for the day. I only use the library for a few months a year &  I hadn't sat in this section for a while and realized how nice the light was coming thru the windows. Nobody else was there yet (or so I thought), but I noticed a few articles of clothing scattered around the area. I thought somebody must have forgotten them and they weren't picked up by the staff for some reason (turns out this guy scatters his stuff around apparently to try to keep people away. So he had done this already in the first few minutes of the library opening.

I began my work on my laptop (ongoing project) and a little while later a guy came in singing. He set a bunch of bags down in one chair (#1)and then he went to a different carrel (#2) nearby in my line of sight. A few moments later he popped up and moved over to a carrel (#3) at the end of the row where he had some more "stuff". A few minutes later I noticed there was a shirt behind the curtain next to me hanging over one of those portable round laptop "desks";  apparently with the intention of being dried by the sun, like a clothes line.

I didn't know this was also the fellow's stuff (but it turned out to be, #4). The guy returned to carrel #2 and then bounced up to discard a banana peel. Back to #2 he sat for a few seconds, then let out a LOUD BURP without apology. I finally said something: "YOUR BEHAVIOR IS INAPPROPRIATE. I will report you if this continues. This is NOT your living room".

He totally ignored me as if he couldn't hear me. But I know he could hear me. I knew he wasn't deaf because he also periodically was talking on his phone. A few moments later he BURPED LOUDLY again ( other patrons heard it as well, looking over towards him). So this time I walked over to the desk and talked to Chris about it. Chris said they are aware of this fellow and said he is "mentally ill" but that they "must personally observe the inappropriate behavior" themselves in order to take action.

He said they would do a "walk by" in a few moments. And he DID walk by and noticed the scattered stuff all over the area and gently told the fellow that he needs to keep it all together in once place. The fellow obeyed the instructions without a response, putting all his stuff together by his #2 spot.

Chris left and I resumed working on my laptop. The fellow talked on the phone again, sounding as if he was able to function NORMALLY in that regard. I don't think he's mentally ill as much as he is simply self-centered and could CARE LESS about other people. I don't think this is a matter of having compassion for a mentally ill person as much as it is about a person willfully defying socially acceptable behavior & normal etiquette. Anyways, since the library is not a psychiatric hospital, we're not here to take care of him and bend backwards to allow inappropriate disruptive behavior that is driving people out of this area.

Nonetheless, I left the area for the time being: I try to get outside for exercise every day around this time.  Later when I returned I chose a different area; but did make an effort to to see if he was still there and YES he was- and his "stuff" was spread out again. And as I was leaving at the end of the day I intentionally walked by again and he had a ton of food items all over the place.

 One day later 8/14/24 around opening time I thought about sitting in the "nice light" area again but there he was already - all set up- and all his belongings spread out again. Chris was back behind the desk . I get the feeling he doesn't like doing rule enforcement and didn't approach him. He will do it if asked, but who wants to be the one who asks for rule enforcement every day. Then I will become the "bad guy".

 But  I shouldn't  feel forced to find a different area of the library just because of one selfish jerk. By the way, this same guy smirked at me later in the day as he walked by, as if he had "won". I don't think he's low IQ mentally ill. I think he's just a selfish dude who doesn't care about others.  He also drives a car ( I noticed him in the parking structure on one occasion) so he apparently is able to function normally in this regard (pass a driver's license test, drive without getting tickets, accidents etc).

Based on my conversation with Chris yesterday (that they are "aware" of him as it seems to be an ongoing long-term issue) I get the feeling that they are just allowing him to do his thing unless there's a complaint. I don't want to be the guy who complains every day. I just want normal rule enforcement- nothing extreme. I'm not so uptight that I come and complain about every little thing but this seems like a chronic problem that will continue to get worse as this guy has a GIGANTIC SENSE  sense of ENTITLEMENT to this area of the library, at the EXPENSE of OTHERS. I hope library administration will take note of this. It's NOT fair to everybody else. 

Idiotic so-called security guard in car at Weehawken Public Playground

https://maps.app.goo.gl/kHdB7jS3LKyP6vVaA 

This was my first place to take a break after driving around Manhattan all day. I came through the tunnel and found a nice spot to park and look over at the skyline. But it was so hot middle of the day I had to crack my driver side door to keep the breeze coming through . there's only a little traffic coming through this loop so it didn't obstruct any drivers, but after a while some Mexican in a security car came by and started harassing me for having my door cracked open a little bit. Get an effin life chico 👎. All you have to do is drive around and stay out of people's business & pick up a check at the end of the week. Find a shady spot & play games on your phone all day if you want. Just don't start harassing people for stupid little things like having their door cracked open - not bothering anybody. That's how you can be a HERO. 

Prayers for Xena near Augusta Maine

https://maps.app.goo.gl/ibJeDyzkQfQDULjt5 

This isn't really about Pizza Hut because they don't have any control over the issue I'm talking about:

 I accepted a delivery for a delivery service to take a pizza to a customer for $5.75 . I'm not even from this area so I was just visiting and as a delivery driver for this particular service, I'm able to accept delivery assignments wherever I am in the USA. Also it was pouring rain.

 So I pick up the pizza and then I find out the delivery address is 11 miles away so it will be a 22-mile round trip which is about a gallon of gas. Then, along the way I find out I have to pay a dollar toll.

 So now my profit is $4.75 minus $3.50 for a gallon of gas, equals $1.25, although I figure the customer will probably add a dollar or 2 tip. Upon arrival it's still pouring rain. The instructions are not perfect but luckily I find the right door on the first try in the apartment complex.

 The well-fed young lady comes to the door and I say to her "wow it was farther than I thought, plus I had to pay a toll." She grabs the pizza and says, "Have a good one" in a soulless monotone, & slams the door shut,  clearly not giving a damn about me as a person. Needless to say there was NO TIP. 

If you can't afford to give a delivery person a dollar tip (or are just too selfish) or at least show some sincere appreciation, you SHOULDN'T use delivery services. Just turn off the TV, get your lazy self up off the couch, and drive yourself to the restaurant or store. 

there's a special place in HELL for you.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/K7jy5y73La9M4mSt9 

If you're a doordash customer, and you don't treat the delivery driver properly, there's a special place in HELL for you.AND  If you can't afford to give a tip, don't use doordash. Pick your lazy ass up and drive to the store restaurant yourself. AND STOP TREATING DELIVERY DRIVERS LIKE THEIR PIECES OF GARBAGE. You are the garbage if you can't treat people right. You can make this experience a win-win, and it's not just about giving big tips. It's simply about treating people nicely with affection as if they're a fellow human, not as if you're a f****** goddess and their your slave. 

6.29.24 Re bad doordash customer in Gardiner Maine

6.29.24 Re bad doordash customer in Gardiner Maine 

So I was on a summer trip and I was in the state of Maine all the way from the West Coast, and I turned on doordashers to see if I could do any deliveries. And almost immediately I got a delivery for a pizza.  Total pay would be $5.75.

IN California, doordash would automatically be required to subsidize this BASED ON TIME AND DISTANCE, but in most other states whatever the initial pay shown is the end price, unless the customer adds a tip. I thought maybe there would be a tip later.

 So I accepted the order, and drove a few miles to pick up the pizza at Pizza Hut. Then I noticed I would be driving 11 miles to deliver this pizza -so far no indication there would be a tip. The other thing doordash has nefariously done is they changed it so that when they give you an initial delivery offer,  they DON'T tell you the mileage as they used to do.

 Otherwise I suppose too many people are turning down these deliveries because frankly they are  just not profitable, or even possibly losing money. 

So I start driving and then I realize I have to pay a dollar toll along the way. So now my profit is $4.75. Which about covers 22 miles of gas. I arrive at the apartment and tell the lady named Xena "it was farther than I thought,  plus toll ." 

And she said without any feeling or true care or affection whatsoever " have a good one ". She didn't even say thanks. She was cold as ice 👎😡. I will not keep dashing for very long because customers are getting more and more callous. It's not just the low pay.  It's lack of humanity and the lack of treating people with dignity.

 I can get by without making a few bucks here and there from doordash. Sure I like to cut some of my cost by doing this but I also thought it might be enjoyable, but really it's not. 

Too many customers are treating the process as transactional and the delivery person is just a robot in their mind that should be getting the item from A to B is fast as possible and in most cases they don't even want to see you or talk to you let alone tip you but at least some people still feel an obligation to give a tip. 

I mean really if you can't afford to give a decent tip you shouldn't even be using delivery services. Just get your lazy butt up and drive to the store or  restaurant and pick it up yourself. 

6/29/24 Circle K Near Augusta Maine. Jerk clerk around 9pm with ugly nose ring 👎

https://maps.app.goo.gl/SRfaFpdE4jAdR6Zw6 

6/29/24 Circle K Near Augusta Maine. Jerk clerk around 9pm with ugly nose ring 👎

I stopped in here and picked up a drink and the guy had been working outside he came back in and he acts like a dick and he says " is there anything else".  obviously I only had one drink and put it up on the counter. he spoke with a tone like he was like Mr Superior. You're a freakin clerk man. And that's all you'll ever be if you've already dropped out of school.  You're not God Almighty .You're nothing special buddy.. you get treated how you treat others so that's the way I'm treating you in this review

6/29/24 Circle K Near Augusta Maine. Jerk clerk around 9pm with ugly nose ring 👎

https://maps.app.goo.gl/fvUJucCTUQk6hE9o9 

6/29/24 Circle K Nea kir Augusta Maine. Jerk clerk around 9pm with ugly nose ring 👎

I stopped in here and picked up a drink and the guy had been working outside he came back in and he acts like a dick and he says " is there anything else".  obviously I only had one drink and put it up on the counter. he spoke with a tone like he was like Mr Superior. You're a freakin clerk man. And that's all you'll ever be if you've already dropped out of school.  You're not God Almighty .You're nothing special buddy.. you get treated how you treat others so that's the way I'm treating you in this review

Target , Mountain View, CA

https://maps.app.goo.gl/3QqvYNZzPo6vLnre9 

I don't mind being watched at self- checkout as long as they're watching everybody. Right when I began checking out, the Latino employee moved quickly to his post and watched . Then , as soon as I finished, the Latino employee watching me left his post even though there was still another person checking out. I'm white. The other person was Latino. You be the judge. Is this prejudice & preferential treatment? Harassment ?

 I'm almost 60 & been paying all my bills for all 60 years. Or since I was old enough to start paying my own bills. Prior to that, my parents paid all my bills and all their bills too. I also make donations, pay taxes, & worked as a civil servant for many years among other things.

-Born Here- 

Walmart Supercenter, Morgan Hill CA

https://maps.app.goo.gl/cAcwJnEdQU9b72Gf8 

Shopping at Walmart has become a DISMAL EXPERIENCE 🙁☹️specially if you go through the self-checkout. Now they have half of the self-checkout Lanes closed down and they have extra people watching your every move- it's like they're micromanaging.

 So they just stare at you the whole time blank-faced -they don't act like humans- even if you try to break the ice and say something nice or funny they just stare BLANKLY. They're like robots or even zombies. Severely DEHUMANIZING experience.

 I'm almost at the point where I won't go to Walmart anymore because even after checkout , you still have to go through the scrutiny of the of the person by the door who acts like he's the BIG BOSS 👎.

 Meanwhile, how many of these employees are actually stealing from Walmart themselves ⁉️

Newport Beach Public Library

https://maps.app.goo.gl/yKdVhDigaUH45XFc8 

New construction project is making parking a hassle. Used to be plenty of spots in the structure now you have to go all the way to the top almost to get a spot during the busiest time of day. Meanwhile, the library itself seems to 

becoming a little more ghetto in nature. 

I used the sound Lab this morning & I was told that I had to leave because somebody else already had a reservation. Even though they were late for the reservation which is the only reason I could log into the computer in the sound Lab. They were more than 10 or 15 minutes late. 

But I didn't put up an argument I just said okay no problem. The guy who had the reservation came in wearing what looked like pajamas and they were halfway down his backside showing his underwear. 

You don't have to come down Newport Beach to prove you are ghetto. There's plenty of libraries all around OC  and LA counties where you can fit in much more comfortably than here. I mean I just don't get why people would take the long bus ride or however they get here just to  shove it in your face and say I'm ghetto.

 That seems to be their main point of coming here, just to be annoying. And I'm NOT talking about any particular skin color or race. I'm talking about attitude. Nobody cares about your skin color or race or socioeconomics as long as you're just a decent person. 

Anybody can buy decent- enough clothes that will be fine to come to the library. But when you intentionally lower your pants halfway down your back side, we know you're trying to insult Us & say

 "F you" to us. Why travel all this way just to say F You to us ? Are you really that angry ? Does this make you feel better? 

--+

Been gone for a few months. Wandered down to computer lab around 6pm. Hoping for some new faces, rather than the same ol robots. Sat down for a few moments & in walks the bossy Asian lady who used to try to dim the lights, until I said NO 🚫. Groan. She's still coming here like she owns it. So I leave. Can't stand to be around her.

--I found a guy's wallet in the downstairs computer lab and saw the name inside, so I looked it up online and he turned out to be a UCI employee. I found an email to contact him & told him to come and get it or else I will bring it to the desk. He came within an hour to get his wallet but he Didn't Even Say Thanks or show any appreciation to me.

⬇️

Even worse he treated me like I was the Bad Guy For Contacting Him to help him get his wallet back which included money in it. I wasn't expecting a reward but a Genuine Thanks would have been nice. GO FIGURE THAT. How many people would try to contact him to help him get it back?

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It has a lot of nice features and generally nice atmosphere . However there are a few " obsessive compulsive" personalities at the public computers that always make it a little creepy . Two people in the downstairs lab (one female, the other male) are there SO OFTEN- esp the guy, you begin to feel like you are in their bedroom or living room. I just don't like being there anymore when they are there , which is almost always 👎.

--

Maybe they could have a time limit on the downstairs computers to help move some of these over-users on to living a life. Or at least go upstairs for a while. Take a walk. Call your family. Make a new friend.  See your therapist. Go to the beach ⛱️. Live a life . You CAN do it 👍

re Pasadena Public Library-Central Library

https://maps.app.goo.gl/QJfFqxWZGm6Tnhii9 

Believe it or not, they have a very rudimentary untied-shoes sort of creepy fellow basically living inside the condemned Library who peeks out the window to make sure nobody is sitting on the lawn. 

It seems like the orders are coming from above that they want to make sure nobody stays on or near the closed Library lawn for very long. If you walk by and take a break, sit down, rest, and  use their Wi-Fi which is still on as a free accessory ( "free" meaning tax-payer benefit) they will forcefully ( not physical force as far as I know, yet ) but without apology, & without normal social etiquette, and without even showing identification, make sure that you leave the PUBLIC premises , (PROBABLY ILLEGALLY because it is public property and the outside is not condemned).

 They are so DEATHLY AFRAID of becoming like a downtown Los Angeles homeless haven that they have orders to make sure nobody stays on the public lawn and pay a low level security guard (maybe ex-con) to stay inside the library at all times peeking out the window to enforce this (probably illegally) , even on New Year's Day the day of the famous Rose Parade when there are thousands of tourists walking to the parade and from the parade back to their cars, as well as to the Rose bowl for the football game. It is freakin CREEPY 👎👎😡👎😡

"Check out this review of Heavenly Mountain Resort - California Lodge on Google Maps"

The dude "working" in the parking lot on 3/18/24 around 4pm seemed like he was on some MIND-ALTERING SUBSTANCE based on the way he looked, plus repeating himself, and finally his rude final comment, without justification. We treated him kindly and respectful. We won't mind if you fire him .."

https://goo.gl/maps/ptvE7N1zjGYzWaEa6 

Walmart, Mountain View CA

https://maps.app.goo.gl/o8BwBGoBCRvPNgag9 

this is one of those Walmarts you go to only because it has the lowest prices; otherwise you'd gladly go anywhere else. And now as of March 2024 they've made it even worse by restricting self-checkout to NO MORE THAN 10 ITEMS. So most of them are empty with long lines for cashier checkout 🛒🛒🛒🛒👎😡. 

I hate waiting so I picked out a handful of items from my cart (less than 10) and did self-checkout leaving the rest of the items sitting in my cart ( i wonder how many carts like this they are finding lately).

 Low prices aren't worth the hassle . Maybe I'll drive to the supercenter in Milpita (unless this new policy is at all Walmarts); otherwise I'll 

just go to Target 🎯 or Lucky etc. 

Check out this review of Target on Google Maps, Redwood City CA

https://goo.gl/maps/xDHxfs8PgV1ZR67JA 

Everything is pretty good here except the white guy who does the carts 🛒. 1st time I came there he stared me down as I drove into the parking lot. I dismissed it the first time.

 However, again today as soon as he saw me, it was as if he wanted me to see him around and about almost as if he had to show off . He walked past me going in. Then he walked past me in the shopping aisle 🛒. 

Then he reappeared as I was returning to my car with the groceries. It started to feel like harassment. I just want to shop peacefully and go home and target 🎯 is the best option when everything is working right. 

I hope management reads this and can do something about this cart  guy.  I have no idea what's going on. Now I'm thinking about shopping in the evening to avoid seeing this guy again. It shouldn't be this way. 

DoorDash

https://maps.app.goo.gl/n3YG9eEnSX2TP57x8 

Tonight it was rain and the media is reporting blizzard (at high elevations), storms, rainfall,high winds,etc . So around 6 pm I accept a delivery which turns out to be a double delivery. When you accept a delivery you aren't told if it's a single or double. You realize it's a double after accepting. If you don't accept you lose 1st priority status. So I accept everything.

 But a double delivery takes more time and is more difficult to communicate with the customer due to all the bells & whistles on the app & the danger of lag or crash etc if you click too much. By double delivery I mean they have you pickup 2 nearby orders and then they provide the recipient addresses, one after the other.

 And it was pouring rain 🌧️, and in this area i know in advance there's nowhere to park near the restaurant to pick up the order so I walk (actually run) to restaurant #1, & pick up the order where they have no plastic bags even for rainy days ( fortunately i brought a blanket with me to the the order,as well as an umbrella ☔) ,& then run to restaurant #2.

At restaurant #2 I lose my data connection but fortunately they have WiFi so after I figure out the password I'm able to tell them whose order I'm picking up.I literally run back back to the car in the rain with 2 orders under my blanket in one hand, and holding the umbrella in my other hand, trying not to trip & fall. The whole trek is about 3/4 mile on foot, total. 

I drive to recipient #1 in the pouring rain. 

Along the way I get a text from recipient #2 asking "What time i will arrive?" This means she's not happy, wondering why its taking so long. I can't respond to her immediately because I'm afraid of losing the directions to recipient #1 address.

The dasher app can be clunky sometimes so that if you switch screens too much it sometimes lags, or even crashes at times.  IF it crashes it can be a 10 or 15 minute delay for it to reboot. So I wait until completing delivery #1 to text recipient #2 saying I'm "on the way". 

And a few minutes later I'm dropping off the order on #2's  steps, leaving a text message saying it's "On your doorstep. Thanks" per instructions. At this point I notice they decided to leave tip "after delivery", depending whether they approve of me or not. I move onward. 

Later, I make one more delivery and also notice a homeless person at a 7-11 who didn't look too good. I interacted with him,  but he wasn't very responsive. I left him a few dollar bills in his hand but wondered if a random fellow nearby would steal it from him once I drive away. I also call the police and asked them to do a "welfare check". Prayers for him on this cold & wet evening. And that's it for the evening.

 I check the app one more time and  notice that recipient #2 decided to leave "NO TIP". Do they have any idea what I did to try to get their delivery to them as fast as possible in the pouring rain doing a double delivery ⁉️

Oh, by the way, I am a highly educated person with 2 bachelor degrees & a masters & professional working experience. I do door dash periodically as I am working on another degree. Some people assume all delivery people are desperate high school dropouts or something. Not true. We like to be respected too. 

3/1/24 👇☝️

I'm a door dash delivery person. This is where I will leave my thoughts & comments, anonymously.

Prayers for Pasadena, & re Central Library

I go to Pasadena every year for a few days on and around New Year's Day to do evangelism and also film the parade and attend various tournament of roses events. This began when I was a student at Fuller seminary which is only a block away from the parade route. 

Usually it goes pretty well because Pasadena Police and law enforcement is on their best behavior trying to make it a nice relaxed day for everybody including visitors from around the USA as well as worldwide. 

However this year during the parade I encountered two satanists 👿 which was distressing enough. Please pray for their delivery from their demonic obsession.

Then, afterwards, I took a few minutes to rest on the front lawn of the Pasadena Central library, and was abused by a  security goon employed by the city or Library to keep people off the lawn, even though it's public property paid for by taxpayers. 

It's a long story, but to reiterate, as best as I can tell the city library has employed security goons to illegally keep people off the public property out of fear that it will become like a downtown Los Angeles homeless haven. 

Apparently they CANNOT legally post

 "no trespassing" signs because it is public property so they illegally hire security to Illegally harass anybody who comes on to the lawn and they give orders to the  security goons (who refused to provide any identification by the way) to claim it's NOT public property even though it obviously is. 

And you would NOT expect this on New Year's Day of all times and places. And I personally would not expect it because I am NOT a homeless person nor was I looking for a place to pitch a tent. Nor did I look like somebody who was homeless carrying a  backpack or wheeling a grocery cart etc.

Nonetheless I received the treatment, or MISTREATMENT and it was very disturbing. I am now in the process of writing and filing a complaint against the City and/ir Library. I would call this a Pasadena SNAFU:  Situation Normal All Fouled Up. 

Nonetheless, I did NOT expect it on New Year's Day when Pasadena temporarily tries to be on their best behavior. But even on New Year's Day apparently they have a creepy security goon inside the condemned library (closed for years until they complete earthquake retrofit ) creepily SPYING out through the window in case anybody stays on the lawn for too long. Very sickening and did I mention, very creepy 👎😠.

Please pray for Repentance in Pasadena and for them to abide by the law and especially the Spirit of the Law rather than their normal selfish self-serving behavior which has gone on for so many decades in the city that really doesn't have that much to offer except on New Year's day, but they protect it like it's Paradise. 

Go figure. I can assure you there's NOTHING that great about Pasadena CA except on New Year's Day. Many better places to go and be and live. 

College Terrace Library, Palo Alto

So I stopped in at the terrace library which I hadn't been to in a while. first thing happened was somebody parked right in front of me the wrong way facing the wrong way on the street taking my spot no apology as if there's no other spots around which they are. This isn't New York City .

Then I enter the library and there's an adult person LYING ON HIS BACK reading his phone. Comfortable?

I sit down and start working on my laptop and suddenly a guy burst in with lots of bags and stuff he sits down next to me and then he pulls out two hot smelly sandwiches he just bought at some restaurant and for some reason he said to carry him all the way to the library to eat here. 

So I look at the Palo Alto library website and it says NO FOOD OR DRINKS. Why won't they enforce this ? I mean I get it if you want to bring a bottle of water or juice or whatever -even maybe a little something to eat on the side quietly or outside. 

But this dude was CHOWING DOWN on smelly sandwiches, chewing loudly, not quietly. Furthermore, He decided to stand up from the chair next to me and move over to sit down at the table RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME so I was in his line of vision. As well as the smell 👎. & He seemed to enjoy PURPOSELY annoying me.  it seems like his INTENT was to purposely annoy me. 

Why won't library staff enforce the rules except against me.  Please just do your job. Enforce your own rules.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/eXboJdXN1t4HK4Pi6 

12/14/23 Can't recommend "24 roadside service" 👎😡in San Carlos CA (no physical address?)

https://yelp.to/OnKpYRx7xE 

Re "24 roadside service"
San Carlos CA
no physical address?
--
The guy who did the jump start was ok.But the dispatch dude (who is also the owner named Rick) was a jerk to me on phone 👎😡. In addition to insulting me, he answers the phone without announcing who they are ( ie just says "hello" like you're calling a homeowner. So you have to first ask "is this roadside service?") . Needless to say, I asked my roadside to change to a different responder but it was too late. Never again. 
https://yelp.to/OnKpYRx7xE

SHAME ON Walgreens Manager at 2605 Middlefield Rd, Palo Alto, CA 94306

https://maps.app.goo.gl/Xngt8cLrLpmf5Wou8 

This place turned into a fiasco for me 🙁👎. I was visiting for a few weeks , attending events at nearby Stanford campus, and I started getting a check engine light (CEL) for my Mass Airflow Sensor (MAF). SO I went to eBay to search for the part, and found one.

 But before I ordered it, I called this FedEx/ Walgreens & asked if i could have it delivered there for me. The young fellow said "Sure, no problem". So I went ahead and ordered it . The next day I notice the seller switched from FedEx to UPS ( & still later UPS handed it off to USPS).

 Meanwhile I called back to Walgreens & this time a lady answered (turns out she's the manager named Madeline) & asked if they would accept the package 📦 from USPS and if I could still pick it up. Her loud emotional response left me in a state of inner turmoil. I was stunned & shocked by her demeanor.

 First, she raised her voice and said "You sent a package to MY ADDRESS⁉️" as if it was her personal home address (I'm pretty sure she doesn't own the store nor lives there). 

So already I was already alarmed at her sense of excessive entitlement just because she's the manager. Then she screeched "That's illegal. It's illegal" blah blah . I told her that one of the store employees had given me the okay. She screeched again "He misinformed you". Everything she said was spoken on a tone as if this was a 911 emergency. I finally just hung up, it was so upsetting and out-of-control on her part. So I tried to stop shipping but the eBay seller said it was too late. 

The item was eventually delivered to the Walgreens but I didn't even try to go pick it up. I didn't want to go anywhere near this place after the conversation with Madeline. I sent a complaint to Walgreens corporate and told them no matter how much she thinks this is her store, she still has a Legal Obligation to "Return to Sender" .

 Eventually the package 📦 apparently was returned to sender but without the requisite "return label" eBay provides in such cases. It will probably get back to the seller eventually but they weren't sounding very promising that I would get a refund without the refund return label. 

The only good thing to come from all of this is that eBay stood up and said that given the circumstances, they would refund me OUT OF THEIR OWN POCKET. 

Thank you eBay 👍. 

Shame on Madeline most of all 👎.

 Your behavior and tone was unacceptable. 

re SNARKY high school dropout clerks who call you "BOSS"

Should 

SNARKY high school 

dropout clerks

who  call

 you "BOSS" in a

 PSEUDO- respectful

 manner BE FIRED ⁉️

(PSEUDO- means fake, insincere NOT truly respectful)

Pizzeria Delfina - Palo Alto

The white kid at the front counter is a little cocky. He said the words "Have a nice day" but it sounded artificial. Maybe a little supercilious. Dude, you sell pizza 🍕. You're NOT a Stanford ⭐. Even Stanford stars aren't cocky like that. In fact, Stanford students are some of the coolest 😎👍, and smartest. You're not there yet. You can redeem yourself. Tone it down. Smile a little 🙂. Be genuine, as if you REALLY CARE that we have a nice day . 

https://maps.app.goo.gl/tmmc4GiBmFuqmMgf6 

BioLife Roseville CA 👎☹️

This actually happened 

a year ago in 2022: 

 

A young lady did a BAD JAB and caused clotting so they couldn't return my blood, so I get "deferred" for 8 weeks. THEY'RE FAULT. MY LOSS 👎.  And they DON'T give you any extra💲compensation. "Ryan" DIDN'T appear to feel bad about this fact. It's not until you experience something like this that you realize how much it is primarily devoted to being a MONEY-MAKING MACHINE. Not about people,but 💰 (at this location) 

 PLUS they give you BLANK FACE SORRY (NOT SORRY) stares .And they come out with a WALL of people to STARE you down like they have an "angry white male" ( I'm not male. I'm non-binary).  And they speak in a monotone voice like they're talking to "just another stupid white male". Didn't I say I'm NON-BINARY⁉️.

Then the "supervisor" from India tells you it's FDA regulations that you must wait 30 minutes (even though last time this happened the nurse simply asked if I was feeling ok.and let me go) . They say it's a "new regulation" but can't tell you when it became a new regulation. 

And they speak DOWN to you in condescending manner, like you're just another stupid pin 📌 cushion, when you express a little frustration. Needless to say , NOT a professional environment 👎 NOR  caring . 

 The other 2 Sacramento locations are actually better and more experienced. I would recommend AGAINST coming to this location. 

Also, this is an ULTRA so-called "liberal  progressive"location 👎 so if you're more of a traditional type of person you may feel a little uncomfortable, or should I say they will try to make you feel uncomfortable. And don't rule out the possiblity an INTENTIONAL bad jab .

 These progressives are the ACTUAL HATERS of traditional people. SO sad they have so much anger inside themselves. BUT please don't take your anger out on me because I'm a traditional old person. I came here with no preconceptions or biases against anybody. NOT looking for trouble. Just trying to make some extra money for Christmas 🎁 gifts for the kids. 

By the way, are these "nurses" real nurses? Are they actual registered nurses ?  

Finally, I know there's some good people working here and I respect and appreciate you . Don't let the bad ones drown you out. 

https://goo.gl/maps/wD2B5VuSaFJ23ozb8 

Check out this review of Menlo Park Hardware on Google Maps

If the young Latino cashier won't walk 50- feet to my car with me so I can check if it's the right size wrench 🔧 to buy, what's the point of coming to the local ace hardware ⁉️I can go to any big box store if I want NO HELPFUL SERVICE 😡👎

https://goo.gl/maps/wnCUhgxXzwfEmzrh9 

99 Cents Only Stores, Sacramento

https://maps.app.goo.gl/LWsR2XCkSs25wby36 

I think they should change 

their name to

 "nothing is 99 cents " anymore. 

But seriously. I got up to the cashier & the cheese that looked like it was 2.99 turned out to be $5 so I said "please take that off" and then she had to call the manager and she said it would take so long I had to go to a different aisle and start my whole order over. 

So I moved over to another aisle in the cashier there an African American female snapped at me and said

 "anytime you take an order 

off it causes the computer to freeze". 

She sounded like she was blaming me as if I should have known that. 

So I said " I was supposed to know that ?" She snapped back "I didn't say that". . I replied " you didn't say that in exact words but you said it in your tone" . Then she accused me of being angry even though I wasn't. I was just going with the flow trying to get in and out.

 I only got angry when she start accusing me of being angry even though I wasn't. she tried to flip it. She was the one being angry.. I was being very compatible and understanding of the situation even though I didn't want to wait in line again.

 I was in a good mood even though this happened and now I end up walking out in a bad mood because she was so angry. 😡👎🏽.  

Shame on her 👎🏽

 

BioLife Plasma Services, Stockton CA

https://maps.app.goo.gl/XSPxxCje1wYHdSy6A 

Sometimes great but this time some angry white lady at the front desk jumped all over me. I won't say for what because she'll try to get me removed but she misjudged it. I was right. She was wrong 👎. I know her type. Beware ⚠️🚫. Then the next gal got a bit ridiculous making me take my hat off and a plastic bag out of my pocket for weighing me. If they are just trying to test how bossy they can be here, I will drive the extra miles to Sacramento..

re 99 Cents Only Stores, Mira Mesa CA

https://maps.app.goo.gl/VkCwhQzHwJ4jXN7PA 

I am a prominent person with significant education, but I also am a compassionate person who has a ministry ✝️ to help others. 

Occasionally I will shop here for a local elderly person from our church. Although I offer to pay for her, she insists I use her EBT card to pay. This is totally legitimate and legal.

 However, when the cashier notices I am using an EBT card, her demeanor towards me changes. Apparently she seems to think I myself am the recipient of social services, as if I am a lower class citizen. In fact, I am a well-employed hard-working educated individual. 

Could management please instruct cashiers Not To Make Assumptions and GENERALIZATIONS re persons using EBT cards ? 

re Ray-A-Motive Auto Repair, Bellflower CA 👎😡

https://maps.app.goo.gl/FvLbiuezjYT5zHXk9 

I drove through here as I was driving around town looking for an auto repair cuz my car was clicking and clacking & popping etc. Sounded terrible and I didn't know what it was. I've been to this place before not for a few years. And then I looked and realize how busy it was so I was going to just drive right back out. But this guy walked up and stop me look at me suspiciously and asked me what I wanted.

Obviously if you work at a repair shop you SHOULD HAVE BEEN able to hear my car & know without asking what I needed (or maybe not if you're just an office manager). 

But let me cut to the chase: he seemed like a JERK the way he was talking to me in a condescending manner, like he was some kind of supercilious star or something. Sorry buddy but being an office manager does not make you a star  other than a star in your own eyes. 

 He also started peering in my window like he wanted to see what I had in my car as if he was a cop or something -like he had a right to know what I was carrying with me. 

Fact is, I had my car loaded with stuff because I had been traveling all summer to New York and back. But he apparently disapproved of this as well. I already told him it looked too busy and I was leaving. He had no right to stop me from leaving.

 If he wanted to tell me this was private property I already know that. But during normal business hours it's acceptable to enter private property if the business is open to inquire, do business, look and see how busy it is etc.

 For that matter a grocery store is private property, a gas station is private property etc. I wasn't doing anything illegal. I'm a good citizen. And I was trying to leave, so why was he acting like a jerk and making me stop and tell him what I was doing.

 Simply put, I drove in past the different garage stalls & took the loop around and was heading back out. To treat me like a potential criminal was not warranted 👎🚫. SHAME on you 😡.

 I've been fixing up a nice old vehicle and I've spent a thousand dollars 💰 on repairs in the last month.There's nothing wrong with that. And I pay all my bills & taxes. My tags are current and I have auto insurance fully paid for the year. 

DON'T YOU DARE look down at me dude 👎. You are the one who dropped out of college (or never went) to become an office manager and there's nothing wrong with that but there's something good about finishing the course too, as a lot of us do because we believe it is the right thing to do.

Frankly, It would have been much easier to drop out of college & grad school to become an office manager at an auto repair shop but a lot of us refused to quit. Don't you dare think you are better than me. You judged me negatively first, so I'm judging you back. You started it buddy. Not me.

 I only had honorable intentions as I drove up while you seem to think you're better than others. No you're NOT. You may actually be Worse than the people you are negatively judging. The most famous person in the  history of the world 🌍 once said: "Take the log out of your own eye 👁️ 🌲 first" . Maybe you should listen to him. It's never too late.

#RepentAndBeBaptized 🙏

#AcceptChrist2bSaved ✝️

Joy V 

BA/BA/M.Div

Jasper's Auto Service Inc, Artesia CA

Jasper's Auto Service Inc
(562) 865-1761
https://maps.app.goo.gl/arBt3qnLU5kMNkB16 

This place is GREEDY 👎🚫. I pulled in with my car knocking & popping, clicking & clacking & asked the mechanic "Do you know what that is⁉️" He obviously did ,but he decided not to tell me, saying

 " We can check it out for a $65 diagnostic fee". 

I just installed a new axle for $280 based on a MISDIAGNOSIS that was supposed to stop this noise. I'm not paying another greedy mechanic for a diagnosis. 

I kept driving around pulling into repair shops ( no shortage of them) until one nice mechanic over at Star Auto heard me pull in & said confidently "It's your bearings". Turns out he was right 👍.

 That's the American way 🇺🇲.A true mechanics first thought should be about helping people, not about making money 💰. If you wanted to get rich you should get a job on Wall Street, not fixing cars. Being an honest mechanic is a noble calling and your reward is feeling good about doing an honest, decent job everyday, and your ultimate reward if you stay honest, and believe in Jesus, is Heaven 🙏✝️👍

re OC Library - Seal Beach Branch

https://maps.app.goo.gl/nFyQuGveeJnv779S6 

There's an annoying fellow who comes in to use the computer and has some sort of obsessive- compulsive disorder. He goes thru a 15- minute ritual of wiping not only the computer keyboard but also everything around it as well, including the chair & table etc. 

Truth be told: the only way to be sure you don't get germs from touching anything is to simply wash hands with soap when finished. All the wiping down is simply drama & theatrics. 

Ironically, this guy looked gross. He looked unclean & unkempt himself. I finally told him "All you need to do is wash your hands afterwards" and he kept saying "not interested" as if I was trying to sell him something over the phone and he was a VIP. Dream on buddy. You're obviously nothing special 👎.

 And I added "You can get help for obsessive compulsive disorder,you know. There are doctors for that" (ie mental health professionals) . He replied again "Not interested ". 

Poor creepy fellow. But that's what you get at public libraries. Sad 😞. Prayers 🙏 for. 

OC Library - Cypress Branch

https://maps.app.goo.gl/FwYN31WjAdLh6xZB8

I actually don't like the type of libraries where there's always an employee posted at the "front desk" for whom you have to pass visual inspection upon entering and even exiting. And sometimes it makes you feel like they are undressing you with their eyes.

This is OUR library - not this employee's personal Library. Not the staff's library. So when you say "welcome" , its like a family member saying welcome as you walk in the front door of your own house. It's actually offensive.

 And when you say "Thanks for coming" as we leave, oñce again you are acting as if it's your personal library,  because you work there. And we the tax paying local citizens are the guests. That's not right. We appreciate good staff . But you are one of us, and we are one of you. We are a community. This is a public venue. Not private. 

 

re alleged parking enforcement @ City of Newport Beach - Civic Center

https://maps.app.goo.gl/CLXwH4HbsTJHZApn8 

Who's the greasy long-haired guy who drives around in a city vehicle pretending to be parking enforcement ⁉️ I was in the library parking lot a little past 9 pm and he came along and told me I couldn't park there after 9 o'clock. And threatened me with a ticket. I said "Why aren't there any signs? How can you write a ticket if there are no signs?" 

There's NOT a single sign saying "No parking after 9" nor any other signs showing any time restrictions. Was he just harassing me because he wrongly assumed that I was a transient ⁉️ That's very offensive and unprofessional 👎😡. 

SHAME on this guy. Anyways, this lightweight dude who disrespected me can't hold a candle to my achievements. I continue to achieve and excel. While this college dropout self -proclaimed parking enforcer does his meaningless night route thru Newport Beach and goes home to his Santa Ana apartment to eat Cheetos & sleep all day like a bum 👎. Get a life dude. And get a haircut 💈 too 

-James-

BA/BA/M.Div 

re KRLA, aka 870AM The Answer , So Cal

https://maps.app.goo.gl/aQ8WSv1k9Y9Joo749 

@am870theanswer

@lanewsguy

Larry Marino gives TOO MANY neutral updates on LYIN BIDEN,- & rarely criticism As if he's working for a NON -conservative station.

 And too many milquetoast updates re Trump indictments- that's exactly what the lefties want: repeated reminders of Trump being prosecuted - so that low information voters will think 

he's the "bad guy"

Yo Larry: 870 is conservative radio. You DON'T have to be so politically correct. Listeners tune in to hear

REAL TALK.

Same re the lady who came over from NPR (who does afternoons: hedy lynn herdes )

Ocd Lifeguard Hq, Corona del Mar

I snorkel/swim 🤿 FOR EXERCISE every day from big CDM 🏖️ beach to little CDM & back. I like to snorkel-swim because it makes it more interesting &fun - to see the fish & sea life down below as I swim by. I would think the lifeguards on the beach at little CDM would be familiar with me by now. Same swimsuit & head gear . Same routine etc. 

But every time I arrive at little CDM they radio for the yellow boat to come & make sure I'm ok. Despite NO signs of DISTRESS.This is getting a bit ANNOYING lately. 

Hey lifeguards, please leave me alone. I'm 56-yo & I've been doing this for decades & NEVER needed rescuing.

 I'm pretty sure I will NEVER need help.

 I absolve you of any liability if anything ever happens to me. 

Just relax. Peace out. ✌️

Everything is OK 👌👍😎

https://maps.app.goo.gl/RoRpsKAv8drKC1EC6 

re Newport Beach Public Library (main)

I used to use the downstairs computer lab and enjoy the more comfortable chairs down, then one day dude showed up and he always sat in the same chair came every single day. And then this other lady also seemed to start showing up every day and she had her own little habits . So I started wearing a hoodie to block out the distraction of her idiosyncrasies.

Then I left for 6 months & traveled the world and upon return I come back here to do some work on the computers and what do you know: the same two characters are in the same exact spots. Like am I hallucinating?

And now these two seem to think they kind of like OWN the downstairs computer lab. IT'S A REAL DRAG. So now I have to go upstairs and try to sit on those hard wooden chairs but it's so hard with my arthritis - can't do it for very long.

Can the library do anything about these certain characters who become obsessive compulsive & sit in the same spot and then start to have an increasing sense of Entitlement ?

There's a few OC's (obsessive compulsives) )upstairs too but there's enough other people & staff to prevent them from acting like it's their "turf" ( altho a few do try) 

(949
https://maps.app.goo.gl/JjyLDn4hBrA4i2wm9 

re Palos Verdes Estates Police

My previous experience with PvE police was positive. But they may have hired a new young hothead cop- he yelled at me for the way I was backing up - apparently not aware that I was doing so because he had stopped a car in the lane which I would naturally use if he was not there.  I was trying to avoid getting too close to him and the vehicle he was ticketing. 

I think he misinterpreted what I was trying to do or showed a lack of self-awareness (that he was blocking a lane). He may also have mis-identified me as a "young punk" - sometimes from afar some people still think I'm a young man. Until they get close and see the lines and wrinkles on my face & the grey sideburns.

 But I'm 56 now. I guess I have to wait until I'm 65 and an official senior citizen to get some respect. 

https://maps.app.goo.gl/MWPCZ6K2opC58ns98 

re Rawlins: Wyoming Frontier Prison Museum

Our young female guide was nice but she seemed to be bothered by being included in photographs. We WEREN'T intentionally including her, but sometimes she was standing directly in front of the object we wanted to "remember on

 film" (that's an old euphemism now given everything is digital now).

 Needless to say, if you are a tour guide you must expect you will show up incidentally or intentionally in photographs from time -to- time. If that's too bothersome, with all due respect, find a different job. 

Apart from that, it was Fun. & Interesting. 👍 I wish they would allw you to see what it's like up in one of the guard towers.

And we were the only ones who gave a tip at the end ($5) . 

https://maps.app.goo.gl/Jf12KjaBowN5CG8x5 

👎re Dayton Transmission, Casper WY

The big guy doesn't tell you there's a so-called "diagnostic fee" of $50 until AFTER they're done (at which point you could LEGALLY object)...and he cowardly uses the ladies in the office as a shield from you becoming argumentative. 

And the diagnosis is nothing more than read 'check engine' codes, which you can get done for free at O'Reilly's , plus a test drive.

They don't even check the quality of your transmission fluid before their grand conclusion that you need a new transmission 👎 for $3600 👎 

It's like a doctor immediately recommending heart surgery before trying smaller steps first. In my case it looks like fresh transmission fluid might be the solution ( still keeping an eye on it) 

https://maps.app.goo.gl/nYuMyZBm1CBWBNvo6 

Walmart Supercenter, Circleville Ohio

https://maps.app.goo.gl/WSBp1uiqWdfLKPXi8 

The reason some of us use self checkout not just because it's faster but  because we want to avoid the awkward interaction with the clerk.. unfortunately some of the people working at the self-checkout start to think they need to act like regular clerks say "how are you etc and then this one added "Thanks sweetie as I was leaving which I particularly 

dis like at my age,almost 60,  an adult male. It's actually disrespectful in a passive-aggressive way 👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽

If u don't like your job sweetie ,You can always go back to college You didn't have to drop out

711/Sinclair combined, Salt Lake City

Sinclair
(801) 328-2676
https://maps.app.goo.gl/2AjQaSRJka4EGjA98 

This is a BAD NEIGHBORHOOD if ur just passing through ... years not the nice types of homeless but the opposite - the angry ones with a chip on their shoulder blaming everybody else for their problems.   

While getting gas here a pathetic-looking sad guy just stared at me the whole time watching every single moment of my process of getting gas with a smirk on his face.  it really felt weird - he was really strange. I just wanted to get in and out of there as quick as possible and get away from that creepy freak.  

Meanwhile it seemed like there was a drug deal going on a few feet away from me as I was pumping gas ⛽. 

Then as I pulled out of the gas station a guy on a bike was going the wrong way and he flipped me off as I drove toward him as if it was my fault I was driving the right way on the street,  and he was driving the wrong. 

I pray for anybody here who does not know Jesus Christ as Savior to make that decision to accept Christ and be saved. Repent and be baptized. do not wait until it's too late. 🙏✝️❤️

Re Tot Stop Inc. preschool near Indian Wells Tennis venue

https://maps.app.goo.gl/XYRqKLNWwG514wb5A 

(This is a review NOT of the inner workings of the preschool or how well they do with the kids inside etc but my experience parking next to the preschool.)

This place is toxic 👎. I'm a very good citizen and a very good person. I've been coming to Coachella valley ever since I used to teach here, and now I return at least once a year ( usually several times to hike etc) and always around tennis time in March.

 I've always parked next to the preschool and walked to the tennis arena to save a few dollars. NOTHING wrong with that. I'm not poor or impoverished, but I do like to save money when I can. 

 I missed the tennis tournament because of the covid because I don't want to get a vaccine but I returned in 2023 and parked in my usual spot but this time it caused a big fuss. 

Almost immediately some guy came out and POUNDED on my window (which I keep shuttered when I park to limit sun damage and prevent prowlers from peeking in) (why not politely knock with knuckles rather than pound with fist?) and wanted to know why I'm parked legally on the street next to the preschool. I told him exactly why as noted above.

He tried to say that the city will post signs not to park here. I said they've never done so in the last 15 years. He was caught in a lie and knew it & seemed slightly embarrassed (rightly so,) & then walked away. 

Meanwhile some lady from the preschool was standing on top of the the play structure peeking over the wall at me in my car even though I had done NOTHING WRONG and I'm a good citizen and everything was fine. 

Eventually they left me alone but by that time I was I was Internally Upset and didn't want to be near that place so I moved voluntarily to a different parking spot which are NOT always so easy to find. 

Anyways SHAME on this place and their toxic environment & the harassment that I experienced just for parking on a public Street next to the preschool. You cannot use childcare as an excuse to harass people.

 I see parents who use their kids as weapons this way occasionally to marginalize others, to whom I say,  "You're the scumbag, not me" .

re Palm Desert Branch Library

The new big fella - sort of Latin looking- employee may be LGBTQ - which is his choice to make (for secular life) ( as for eternal life, that's a different story)- but sometimes they actually have subtle little ways of being territorial, of saying with body language that this is "my territory" .

Ironically while the LGBTQ has clamored for being accepted and included, once they get it, some of them become exclusive to heterosexuals. 

This fella for example will go around tidying up &  pushing in chairs by the computers and cut right by me seemingly trying to send a message. Even when the chairs DON'T need to be pushed in.

 Somebody please counsel him. 

https://maps.app.goo.gl/kJzrMyMERkuvPnVR6 

Re Washington DC parking enforcement SCAM 😡

Then I walked up and down the same block and noticed how many other parking tickets had the 

" failure to display " and there were several. SCAM 😡

Plus they deliberately leave off the instruction to display the paper receipt on your dashboard in order to write a citation to make money.

There's  no other reason. 

Furthermore they already know if you paid or not using their electronic device which is why you include your license plate when you pay at the multimeter space.

Review of parking enforcement Washington DC 2023

Also when I just casually related my bad experience to the gal at the window who doesn't have any real knowledge of the laws or anything ( she just does clerical work) she sarcastically responded "What did you think you were supposed to do with the paper receipt?" 

FYI sweetie: most modern municipalities do NOT require you to leave the paper receipt on the dash anymore because they have the electronic handheld device that tells them whether you paid or not. BUT IF THEY DO REQUIRE it they TELL YOU on the PIECE OF PAPER and/or ON the MACHINE

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new WashDC parking enforcement money-making SCAM 😡👎.

Even tho they KNOW on their handheld device if u paid, if u DON'T put the paper receipt on the dash U get a $50 ticket. 

"Failure to display receipt is now the LEADING reason for tickets"

PROBABLY because THEY DELIBERATELY

 FAIL to SAY U MUST DISPLAY IT

https://wtop.com/dc/2019/10/dc-is-issuing-more-tickets-and-making-more-money/

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Repeat: they DON'T need the paper receipt on the dash to know if you paid or not. That's why you put your license plate number in the electronic payment machine at the time you pay. And that's why they have electronic devices in their hand at all times . But if not why DON'T they clearly say anywhere to display the paper on your dash ? 

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You can walk in and contest a ticket which I tried to do but I had to go back to my car to get my registration & get back in line and wait for the appeals person to call my number and after waiting 30 minutes I had to leave because my parking meter was running out and I would get another parking ticket just waiting.

 So in addition to the $50 ticket 

I paid $4 twice today making it $58. 

Re Capital One Arena , Washington DC

This place is a fiasco to  get in and then if you just want to go buy tickets you still have to go through security line first and then get in another line just to buy the tickets

 ...and the people up in front at the window seem to be just taking so long it seemed like 10 to 15 minutes per group to buy tickets ... so if you come in at game time which I did by the time you get a ticket it's almost 8:00 ...an hour after the game is started...

.. so I just left because I didn't want to wait and buy a full price ticket for half a game ...seems like they could do it better than they do the way they just have people sitting at those windows  chatting " should we buy this or this or that" and then they change their mind blah blah blah ...

and they don't seem to have any sense of urgency for  customer service to keep the people moving ...especially around game time.

The ticket sellers need to be MORE CONSCIENTIOUS about keeping the people moving. if a group can't decide what kind of tickets they want, customer service needs to tell them to STEP ASIDE until they make up their mind

re soul-sapping experience at Burger King DTLA (downtown Los Angeles) on Christmas Day 2022 😟

re soul-sapping experience at Burger King DTLA (downtown Los Angeles) on Christmas Day 2022 😟: 

700 E Cesar Chavez 

https://maps.app.goo.gl/CixxfYp9pmL9sCo87

Since the year 2000, I come to LA every year on Xmas Eve 🎁 for the holiday 🎵show at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. This year 12/24/22 , although I keep my car well maintained, I was concerned about my starter because on Christmas Eve day every time I stopped and started it got weaker and weaker to restart.

 Normally I would have parked in the parking structure at the concert hall, especially since it's free on  Christmas Eve. 🎄

But I was afraid that it would NOT restart and they might have trouble getting a tow truck inside the structure, so I parked at the nearby Burger King in an almost empty parking lot. Then I went to the concert for a few hours.When I came back to my car, as I feared, it would Not start again. 

So I was stuck there overnight on Christmas Eve and did not want to leave my car alone for fear of it getting broken into, so I had to stay with it all night. 

On Xmas Day  no repair shops are open so I was trying to think about what to do.  I was pretty sure that at least the manager or owner of the Burger King 🍔 would be gracious about it on Christmas day. At least I was close to the Catholic Cathedral and was able to attend the Christmas Mass at 8:00 a.m. and then at 10:00 a.m. as well.  ⛪

But  around 1:00 p.m. here comes a tow truck and he starts telling me I got to get it OUT OF THE LOT NOW or he's going to tow me to impound with all the extra fees and everything. So I go inside to talk to the manager,  and the female manager inside said she did NOT call the tow truck. 

 So I went back outside and the guy is already putting my car up on his tow truck.  I frantically yell " STOP STOP NO " and tell the driver that this manager said she did not call for a tow truck.

So the driver tells me it was the head honcho who called - (a male manager.) I don't know if he called  last night or maybe he called in from his home on Christmas Day,  he was so ANGRY 😡 about it for some reason. 

So this manager was so freaking vexatious about getting my car out of there ON CHRISTMAS DAY he couldn't wait one extra day when every repair shop would be open.

 I had one LAST CHANCE to try to start it before this tow truck driver was going to pull me out of there ( and charge me money 💰),...

So I turned the key 🗝️ & it sluggishly turned over & it was one of those split second moments if it didn't start it wouldn't start, but if it did I was out of there .

And just by a Miracle-  I believe it was a Christmas Miracle (praise the Lord)- the car started and I was able to drive out of there, NO THANKS to the Burger King manager who couldn't wait till the day after Christmas to do business as usual 👎.

And you wonder why there's a homeless problem. A situation like this could have added one extra homeless to the list, rather than alleviate the problem. 

Getting your car towed to impound and paying the fees to get it out of impound  probably now starts around $500 in L.A. And it was totally unnecessary.  It was a holiday- not very busy- the BK manager could have waited until the next business day (Monday December 26th) to  request a tow to remove my vehicle.

But he would NOT have had to do so: 

I have my Own tow service (Better World)  and I would have been towed to a nearby open auto repair shop and everything would have been quickly solved. This really left a bad taste in my mouth towards this BK manager 👎.

I will also send a letter to Burger King corporate just reporting why this was totally unnecessary and a lack of  Christmas or holiday spirit and TOTAL LACK of normal humanitarian compassion 👎.

Jay Vonder

BA/BA/M.Div

A Good Citizen Who Cares About Others

 

Re bad experience at BioLife blood plasma donation center

Sometimes it's great, but today I was in the orange section and waited 46 minutes to get jabbed while sitting in the donation chair. 

 Meanwhile people who came in AFTER me in other color areas got jabbed before me 👎. Baley (not real name) was having a bad day. 1st time I've ever encountered her. 

While I waited She walked by me numerous times &  gave me no indication that I even existed. I started wondering if I was invisible. I had a bad feeling about her, that she didn't Like me for some reason even though she's never met me or  seen me before. Not once did I get a reassurance from her or anybody else that they didn't forget me. 

Finally after almost an hour waiting she came over and gave a flippant "sorry about the wait" . Then she did a BAD jab. I seriously have to wonder if it was  intentionally done bad.

 Tebbie (not real name) came over & tried to fix it and asked why the jab was in my "side artery?" ( I think that's what she said, something about the side, indicating to me it wasn't even in the right spot) 

If somebody without morals or ethics  decides they Don't Like You they can mess up your day, ...Or in my case because of a bad jab causing hematoma, now  I CAN'T return for 2 MONTHS, meaning a loss of potential $1000 . I use this income to help others including an elderly parent. 

 Occasionally I encounter people who don't like me at first sight because they assume I'm conservative Christian. And they are right. I am conservative & Christian.  You don't have to like me. But it's unethical (& probably illegal)  to mistreat me in a place like this Because I'm conservative (you could make an argument that an  intentional bad jab is  an "assault") 

I spoke with a "training supervisor" about it and she promised to speak to Baley about it. Will she really ? People must complain to a supervisor if they have a bad experience. This is the only way to get rid of bad apples who RUIN it for everybody. Baley should be fired. 

We are literally "sitting ducks" at their mercy . Just as you expect us to arrive on time and treat employees with respect & dignity,  We must have absolute confidence and trust in their integrity to treat us to the best of their ability. I lost that confidence today 👎. Shame on you Baley. I hope you get fired. 

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re Benton Museum of Art Claremont Colleges- 👎

1st time there: they watch you too much, like you're a potential shoplifter 👎. I visit museums around the country & world & have a website dedicated to art & museums. The best museums have a casual atmosphere even though they have good security. 

There's nothing WORSE than having a person literally follow you from room to room. Use a Freakin Surveillance Camera and sit in a room with big screens to surveil the patrons. 

Otherwise leave them/us alone to enjoy. If 99.9 % of patrons DON'T do anything wrong, seems wrong to watch them as if their potential shoplifters 99%of the time.

 We ALL know the golden rule of museums: Don't Touch Anything Anywhere at Anytime 

re Safeway Fuel Station Aptos CA

https://maps.app.goo.gl/mkXmKEhkfgR7fupa6

The gas station is great and they got the best gas prices in the area HOWEVER that means sometimes people lining up to get gas which isn't too bad usually in my experience. But every now and then you encounter some A- HOLE like the guy I encountered today.

 He finishes pumping his gas. I'm right behind him. Then he sees another person pumping gas like it's his next door neighbor or somebody he knows and he strikes up a conversation with her while he's still in the gas line, even though he's finished pumping gas. 

I wait an appropriate amount of time but he continues to talk and then he starts to clean out his car and I'm still waiting. 

 Finally I say something- I yell at him "If you're done pumping gas get going -move out. You can clean out your car anywhere -people are waiting. There's three or four cars behind me." And he gets indignant like a little baby- like it's an imposition on him. It's like he's oblivious- he doesn't care about anybody else. This is very very rare actually. He was just so SELF-CENTERED.

 I hope my harsh language and rebuke of him will make him become better in the future but I doubt it. He seemed like he was such a self-centered selfish egotistical person . 

Very distressing to know these kind of dinosaurs still exist. We must continue to REBUKE these types of Cretans until they COMPLY . Do NOT back down.