Ah, you married an accountant
I think I’m on her side here. If you and your son are ignoring them and eating the fresher ones, what happens to the older mushy apples?
In my world, they’re gross so they would get thrown away. Sunk costs, etc. In Mrs. Spidercrab’s world, we paid for them and we should eat them. This time, she won that battle.
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Well definitely not on her side now. I thought you wanted to just leave them there for someone else to eat.
Throw out/compost bad ones. Eat good ones.
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Are they so far gone that they can’t be cooked? We turn over-ripe fruit into dessert topping, throw it on some yogurt or vanilla ice cream.
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General response:
- They were edible. I ate 3-5 of them. The one in the picture was the last one and it was too mushy for me to want to eat. So I threw that one away.
- If I had picked them up in the grocery story, I would have not purchased them based on feel and appearance.
- They were markedly less enjoyable than the fresh apples just inches away.
- The only time I’ve cooked apples is to make a pork chop and cooked apples dish, which I greatly enjoy but my kids do not.
This event touches on a larger dispute, which is the fact that my wife buys apples in bags like this:
while I always buy apples individually. So obviously my curated purchased apples are better, and we often end up with crappy leftover apples when she buys them.
Lotta problems at the spidercrab household.
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You could take my approach and just not eat apples
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Using the older ones to make an apple cobbler or some other dessert dish is the pro move.
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Bake something with them, a tart or applesauce or some such.
edited to add: like a slow cooked pony…
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Jfc Samsung is such trash.
I purchased a set of Galaxy Buds 2 last August from the Samsung store on Amazon. A month ago, whenever I would have both buds in at a time a horrible screeching aound would occur, so I went to their website, entered all the information and requested a warranty repair. Great, the Samsung website said, send them in. No charge we will get this fixed up.
Today, I received note that they are not covered under warranty (and not because of damage, the response should anger you as much as it does me) and that a charge of $144 dollars would need to be paid for repair (on a set of headphones I spent $159 on.)
Well thats outrageous so I called in to see wtf. They say that my buds are an “international version” and are not covered under warranty. I asked what the fuck he was talking about as I purchased them through the Samsung US store on the US Amazon website, and nowhere on the listing I purchased from does it mention being an international version or not having a warranty.
So I said “Look, there is clearly some mistake. Either its not being read correctly or your company screwed up in the original listing. No big deal, its a mechanical failure in the first year and should be covered by the company. Do good by a long time customer and support your products.” To which they replied. “No sir, its an international version and we wont cover it under any circumstances.”
So I replied “Ive purchased nothing but Samsungs since Ive had a cell phone, samung appliances and televisions. Im asking as a long time customer and probable future customer for you all to do the right thing and fix these for me. Are you telling me your company is so fucking stupid that they are going to give up multiple thousands of dollars in future purchases to save $150?”
They said “this is an international version sir, we will not repair it for free.”
So I said “great, I know this isnt your fault mr. Customer service guy. Ive worked it myself. If you have a policy where there is nobody who you can escalate to to try to save my business, then your company is shit. Send me back my busted headphones and let whoever happens to listen to this know they are making a really atupud fucking trade off.”
Jfc, im almost more pissed at the sheer stupidity of it all than I am at having half working headphones.
Edit: oh yeah, guess im an apple man now. Fuck.
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Can you just drop the old apples in the trash, thus expediting the crispy delicious apples?
Leave the green text behind.
I won’t get into all the details to save my sanity, but I had a similar interaction with Lenovo over my daughter’s laptop. They claimed it wasn’t covered when there was no language stating that in the warranty. They just kept saying over and over that it wasn’t covered and refused to show me where the warranty said that. I told them I am happy to be wrong if they can show me, but they wouldn’t.
Very quick reversal!
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Is this some Rube Goldberg contest where the answer to what to do with one mushy apple and a drawer full of good ones is to start researching dessert recipes and turn the day/evening into an exercise in making apple cobbler? Rather than just tossing the 20-cent bad fruit and eating good fruit?
You need to go way above the head of the first customer service rep you talk to
Ive tried three times. Nobody will advance me further at all. There must be some kind of directive in place that non-warranty repair calls are not to be forwarded
I’ve gotten to the point where if I don’t get a resolution on my first customer service interaction on something like this (vs. something like changing a flight, for which I’ll HUCA), then my next step is an email to the CEO, or highest ranking person I can find.
Sometimes it works (StubHub), sometimes it doesn’t (Hertz), but I just can’t stand dealing with the incompetent service personnel. And customer-facing orgs usually have a person or department to handle complaints that come in to corporate.
Dealing with a Budget issue now. Needed to return a car early. Website has functionality to modify a current rental, and shows a price, but errors out when you try and confirm. I call, and CSR says they can’t change it over the phone, just bring it in early, and price will adjust. I drop it off early. 2 days later, I get a receipt showing a drop off date/time 2 days after I actually dropped it off. Price was decreased but not by as much as if it was checked-in properly. I call, and get an actual US-based agent who is completely incompetent. Doesn’t seem like he understands what I’m saying the issue is. Starts asking me what kind of car I drove, and that the price is higher because because I had a higher class of car. This is totally irrelevant to the issue. My rate wasn’t higher than my reservation, and a got a higher class car at no charge because there were no other cars left, and the desk agent literally had to go wandering through the garage to find me a car. The call with the CSR then disconnected; I’m 99% sure he dropped it because he had no ability to help.
I don’t really know what my next step would be, so off went an email to the CEO.
Ill give it a shot, thanks for the suggestion