Surprise!

I know a lady who first fled her country to another country for a better life and then staged a marriage with an American citizen to come and stay in the USA. She described it as a “business deal”. According to her that marriage was never consummated. Later she became...

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Analyze That

On the day of my baby boy’s birthday (last Sunday) we were eating pizzas. At one point my mother was telling me not to eat pepperoncinis that come with papa john’s pizzas because she thought it would give me gas. I ignored and ate two anyways since I never got problem...

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#whirlpoolsalescrap

Last year when we remodeled our kitchen we bought a microwave oven (over the range), dish washer and a regular oven (free standing gas range) manufactured by whirlpool. Within first week the handle of the microwave was deformed by heat. It had warranty for a year, so...

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My Grandmother

My mother’s mother is an unfortunate woman. She lost a daughter at its infancy, a son died at his childhood, a daughter died leaving three little kids – she raised the youngest one of them. Her husband died in her mid forties. Never married again she lived most of her...

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Kurbani

This was the first year when I went to butcher shops for Kurbani of Eid-ul-Azha (Annual religious sacrifice). We deposited $500 to a butcher shop in Pipersville, PA to get a bull of around 1800lbs. That was a Thursday and he told our organizer that he only had big...

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Customer Service

I am pretty sure you deal with customer service representatives if you live in the USA. Most of the times it is their fault that you have to call them, for example, you bought something online but they sent a wrong/bad item, they charged something you don’t recognize,...

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AT&T Cheated Me

I complained many times against AT&T, still stayed with them because they gave me good prices for phones. This time they lied to me and I believe I won’t stay with them after my contract is over unless they give me what they promised. First, they sold me Samsung...

Chatting

Yesterday, I was waiting in line to get this year’s flu shot at my work. Two women ahead in the line were loudly expressing their personal opinions about other people they knew, what movies and movie stars they liked etc. It was quite annoying. Afterward many others...

Kurbani

This was the first year when I went to butcher shops for Kurbani of Eid-ul-Azha (Annual religious sacrifice). We deposited $500 to a butcher shop in Pipersville, PA to get a bull of around 1800lbs. That was a Thursday and he told our organizer that he only had big...

National Pride vs. People’s Lives

More lives could have been saved but the Bangladeshi government reportedly refused to take assistance from some friendly countries in rescuing garment workers from collapsed “Rana Plaza” because of national pride. I am not sure where is the pride coming from. Other...

Parents

#Parents can attest to the fact that they live their kids’ lives too. Their pain & pleasure depend on the well-being of their children too…

Library Time

I try to take the kids to a library once in a week to spend some times with the books and bring some books home, so they can read them during the next week. Hopefully, they will build a habit of going to the library on their own. May be one or both the kids will be...

Telework

In our agency, employees are required to come to office only once in a week, so that their computer can get updates from the agency network. Rest of the days they are allowed to work from remote locations (home, hotel, etc.) which is called telework. I think 1/2 days...