Bruised and battered but still kicking.
Went out to my dad's property this past weekend to celebrate his 60th birthday.
We drank some scotch and shot the shit for a while. As it got dark, I didn't notice that the legs on my tall metal chair were sinking into the soft sand. Next thing we know myself, my friend Gary and my dad are all laying on the ground. The chairs back legs sank so far, that we finally went falling over backwards one after another onto the hard driveway and some pointy rocks
I'm beat up pretty bad, with bruises, scratches and gouges, and Dad and Gary about the same.
We ended up sleeping out there and coming home early the next morning. Felt like someone put me in a clothes dryer for an hour with some rocks. I'm staying away from Scotch and unstable ground from now on.
I often sleep with the bedroom TV going, and this morning I woke with a terrible ringing in my ears. It seems the TV was giving off a high pitched whine that messed with my hearing. I'm not crazy, the wife heard it too. Problem is, that even when I turned the TV off the ringing didn't go away.
So now I have three separate rings in my ears, the new one from the TV, the one from shooting guns and the one from the rock concert in 1986. The sound in my head is not unlike the tone from the emergency broadcast system.
I went to go buy a new TV and I came to realize that these electronic stores must not want to sell anything.
First, I went to a high end consumer electronics store by the house that sells $40,000 plasma virtual, high def, bend over and give a reach-around televisions. I told them that I wanted one of their $350 tube televisions. The looked at me like I had three penises coming out of my forehead. "uh well sir we don't carry much low technology here"
Sure enough, they had three shitty looking 27 inch sets in a dusty corner that were from some companies I never heard of.
Next, I went to Circuit City and saw exactly what I wanted for the right price. I stood there for 15 min while three nineteen year old punk ass sales guys stood 20 feet from me and laughing and giggling like a bunch of Kansas City faggots. I was trying to get their attention but was resolved not to go over and grab them. They had to earn the fucking sale god damnit. Again, I walked out empty handed and told the customer service manager on the way out that his sales people were fucking worthless. That asshole didn't even try to stop me. Obviously my money isn't good enough for these walking cunt faces.
Next stop was Best Buy. Again I found my TV but not one person working in this gigantic fucking store except for one guy stocking video games and a few cashiers.
I told the stocker I needed help with the TVs. He said he knew nothing about them. I told him to fucking find somebody who did ... Finally some nice girl came out who looked like a manager and got me hooked up with a hi def flat screen 32 inch tube television for about $400.
The sonovabitch weighs about 350 pounds and is front heavy, It took me about an hour to get it out of the car and use my bruised and battered body to roll this behemoth up two flights of stairs and into the cabinet.
My wife is very happy with her new surprise, this is the first TV I've ever bought that didn't come from a pawnshop or as a hand me down.
Now If I could just get my fucking ears to stop ringing so I could enjoy it.
posted by Bill Rowland @ February 19, 2007
28 Comments
28 Comments:
You know I hate sales people and the high prices so much, that I just go to Walmart, still get crap ass service, but get me a t.v. for 120 bucks and it usually last a long time.
You asked me about doing something at home about ears and wax. I get compacted wax, and the nasty wax plugs in mine and we do it at home.
You have to have peroxide, some q-tips, a big syringe that holds like 40 cc's or so. You can usually get those from the pharmacy. My husband has me lay on my side and fills my ear with peroxide and I lay there for 10 minutes. He will check and use the q-tip to get any floaties out. Then I get up with a rag over my ear to drain it out, and using a sink full of warm water and that big syringe he flushes my ear, (lean your head over the sink or tub) about 5 times. Sometimes I have to repeat the peroxide and flush two or three times to finally get my ear clear. Works good though.
Wanna compare bruises? And what exactly is a Kansas City faggot? Is this like the difference between the New Your Strip and the Kansas City Strip (insert joke about the bone being attached here)?
i haven`t heard about anyone using peroxide in years.
i use it in my ears all the time, and i brush my teeth with it too.
i can`t wait to have my ears blasted by tony and geezer.......
Thanks burfica, my daughter has bad wax and I need a way to keep them clear. I'll use your method if she doesn't fight it too much.
Stucco: I'm afraid of looking at your toilet pic but I'm thinking you got me beat. Ever see blazing saddles? Thats where Kansas City faggot came from but your explanation is pretty hilarious too.
Dr alistair: I brush with it too. Never stuck it in my ears though.
Can't wait to hear about the concert.
Hammer the ringing in your ears isn't ringing but all the little voices clammering for attention. :-)
On a serious note (burfica's sister here with same wax problem)
go to the pharmacy and purchase a bottle with a dropper in it. (about a buck) mix your own mixture, 1/2 isophoral alchol and 1/2 White Vinager (it must be white) and after every shower, or water activity swimming etc, put a squirt in each ear. It cuts down the wax, the infections and the number of times you have to use the peroxide trick. :-)
I've walked out of shops several times for the same reason too - totally disinterested sales people. It's a wonder, considering so many of them have incentive-based salaries!
Btw, "...and the one from the rock concert in 1986..." LOL!
I can only agree that the "shopping experience" has become a nightmare where service is unknown.
Customer service today ismostly non-existent, Hammer.
Sorry you had such a bad experience -- and glad that you finally got a good tv from the girl/manager at Best Buy.
It's one of the biggest downsides of losing the 'mom-and-pop' stores. They really cared about their customers because they needed them.
The corporations/chains are indifferent because management never actually sees what goes on. They just think having p.r. about 'customer service' makes it true -- and it isn't...
Hope your ears feel better. Try to
stay away from electronics and high frequency nosies for a week or so if you can.
No cell phone next to your ear, no CD/DVD's or radio playing in the car, no tv at home...
I swear, it'll help...
alekx: thanks, I'm taking my daughter into the doctor this week to get the "occlusion removed" I'll try your suggestion to prevent future ones.
Quest girl: Every year it gets worse, and they wonder why everyone is losing to walmart.
lexcen: You ain't lying, They should probably make everything into a huge vending machine where you swipe your card and a couch, TV or car just pops out of a chute.
Annie: Sounds like you know exactly what I'm talking about. with the exception of the person who finally helped me, The managers of these stores are even more clueless than the floor staff. Somethings got to give. I'll have to try your suggestion about getting away from the electronics, I'm surrounded, when I find myself in a quiet room the ringing is screaming without something to drown it out.
Ugh...I haven't had to buy a new Tv in years, now I'm scared to try. Now that you've determined scotch is hazardous to your health, you'll have to switch to beer, or better chairs.
I had a similar experience trying to buy a camera recently...I really did come out of this thinking that nobody at these stores wanted me to buy their stuff. I went to a smaller local store and got what I needed.
Poor Hammer. I am constantly getting hurt and beat up out here on the farm. Let's see, right now I have four huge gashes across my hand from the bunny, a twelve inch gash on my calf from barbed wire, a cut on my eyelid, a half-busted lip, bruise on my thigh from calf kick.... It sucks getting old and hurt!!! he he
Customer service is really non-exsistent in most places. Guess that is why internet purchases have become so popular.
As for your ears, follow Alekx' advice. I had a doctor give me some drops to use for a few days, then I returned for the ear flushing. I recently took the old bottle of drops to another doctor and asked for somemore. He told me that they were the same as equal part alcohol, vinegar and peroxide. So I mix my own now.
Oh hammer, also something new I heard about. Try Ear Candles. I'm going to try them. I've had lots of people swear by them. I looked them up on the internet and they don't seem to difficult to use. It might do better than the peroxide, cuz that does feel rather funky, and for a little one, she might fight it.
Crap. Blogger ate my masterpiece...
It was really good...
Sounds like you bought the same hi-def tube set I have.
Good news is that nobody will ever steal the sunofabitch.
Ohhh Hammer ... What a week-end you have had.
I don't have experiences with ear-wax, lucky me ...
I think you have got enough advices too, how to deal with it.
LOL, I love it! I often find myself walking out empty handed. It's my money, I'm gonna spend it no matter what. Someone is gonna get it & I think it's up to the staff, as much as me, as to who gets it. In our capitalistic society, it's what we are supposed to do! The manager seemed like he didn't care, probably because he didn't care.
On another note, I have heard a ringing for months now. I thought it was the computer, then I thought it was our security system and the list goes on. When we knocked out of power a few weeks ago, I discovered it was my ears... LOL, I blame it on the all the rock concerts.
Damn Hammer! Did you get hammered? (pun intended) You need to take care of yourself but I should be talking cause I fell again on Sunday. Got a reall nice bruise on my arm.
Those stupid ass stores! Do they have any idea how much business they lose by doing that?
kat: definintely!
Jenafear: Seriously, they act as if you are bothering them.
nomas: thanks, it sound like you have your share as well. Going to try the drops on daughters ears and see what comes out.
burfica: I'll check em out but it seems there's enough wax in there to make candles already ;)
scott: dang I hate when that happens. :(
mystic wing: If they can lift it they can have it.
Kirsten: Yeah, got lots of things to try for the kid so I'll post and let everyone know how it worked.
i have ear candles, but am scared to use them, maybe we could make a pact?
Basically, they are hollow tubes, that you insert into the ear and light (One at a time, lay on your side) the vacuum created by the flame sucks up the wax into the hollow wax tube of the "candle" and then when all the wax is out, you just pull the candle out of your ear canal. It sounds weird, and that's why i ain't tried it yet, but yeah, ALOT of people swear by them!!
also,
there is something about televisions in the beroom. I guess that even when turned off, they emit some radiation and studies show it is real ba to have one in the bedroom while you sleep... unless, they say, you unplug it at night.
glad you are back!!
Are you gonna shoot the old TV now?
That's what my best friend would do.
Infinitesimal: I would like to shoot the TV, that's a good idea. I remember how fun that used to be.
I don't want anyone else getting a hold of it and ruining their hearing.
The candles sound interesting, not sure if I could get daughter to hold still with a flaming candle in her ear, might be worth a try.
Yeah I seem to remember the TV radiation, they are still mostly on when they are off. Good advice.
Read this about candles, the experts who tested them were not impressed.
http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/candling.html
Hammer, I'm in complete agreement with you about the big chains...in fact, I'd rather slam my penis in the door of my truck repeatedly than to go into Best Buy...I bought a TV there and had to get it serviced under warranty and it was gone for 10 weeks...and then, when I complained they had the balls to tell me that I shouldn't have bought a TV made in Japan and it wouldn't have taken so long to get the parts...BASTARDS!
Plus the music is so loud in there that I can't remember what I went in there for once I get there. It's a good thing I have to go there only once a year to get gift cards...BASTARDS!
Come on over
We can get that drunk on beer.
:-)
Hammer, your commenters are sometimes as good to read as you are.
I've never had a problem with ear wax, but Younger Brother always has had bad wax build-up. I remember him sitting there with the ear candle thingys someone mentioned above, it's easy and it works for him to this day. It does look stupid, sitting there with a stick looking thing pointing straight out of his ears, but they work.
My problem is life-long tinnitus, ringing in the ears. I remember laying there in a quiet room as a kid listening to the high pitched sound or whistle. If I had perfect pitch I could tell you what note it plays. I have to sleep with a fan going or it keeps me awake, and I alread am prone to insomnia. Wish there was a magic bullet for that. Speaking of concerts, I think Cheap Trick in 1980 added to my tinnitus. To this day that was the loudest concert of my life. Totally insane loud.
Got a kick out of your falling over with your Dad story. Gives a nice visual on the saying "falling over drunk."
Dang! I was going to consult my buddy Dr. Adler [the inventor of the remote control] and see if he could come up with something to help mute your ear ringing woes... but chit.. he passed away Friday.. Please take a moment of silence.. he saved many a child from having to get up off their butts to change the channel for their folks.
My nephew had an earwax woe growing up... I seem to remember he used a drop to keep it dissolved,,saved on the flush at the Dr.s office... Ill try to remember to ask my sis~in~law
Why do people work in shops who don't know a bloody thing about what they are supposed to be selling, nor care about selling it! I have to say that most of the time, especially in electronic stores over here, there are soooo many staff that sometimes you feel like you are being ATTACKED when all you wanna do is look for a battery!!
My ears ring all the time, I also blame concerts (My first was Rod Stewart at 13, a couple of Dire Straits, the Free Nelson Mandela concert in London, a REALLY LOUD Jimmy Barnes) and also dancing next to speakers at nightclubs etc in my youth. Can't tolerate loud music these days - earplugs are the thing. Hope yours goes away =)
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