“I want a lifetime supply of KitKats now!!”
Yes, I just said that headline in my best, squeaky Veruca Salt spoiled-brat voice. Here’s why. Saima Ahmad, a 20-year-old London legal student, loves KitKat chocolate bars. One day, she purchased a...
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The UPS epic fail
If I get a package delivered to me via the U.S. Postal Service, and I’m not home, then Mike the Mailman will leave a note on my door letting me know I can pick up the package at my local post office,...
View ArticleHey telemarketers and robocallers and spambots… I warned you…
A couple of weeks ago, I griped about how telemarketers and ripoff callers and spambots and robodialers have essentially cocked their snoots at the Do Not Call Registry, to the point where they can do...
View Article“Yes, the Fallops Tube on your car is covered under our extended vehicle...
I warned them. I really, really did warn them. They didn’t listen. Their mistake. Seriously, it was their mistake. You can’t fix stupid. Background. I’ve blogged in the past about the overwhelming...
View ArticleTime for me to contact a Schumer
So you know I’ve been dealing with telephone solicitors and spamcallers and scammers of late. And while I’m still having some fun recording them and mocking them (I’ve gotten a few vacation scams and...
View Article“Can I shop at Putafrijo’s or Bababooey’s?”
Ah, another adventure with the telescammers. And this one is a dilly. First off, the spammer calls me with one ring and a hangup. So now I have to waste my cell phone minutes to figure out why I’m...
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Empire Consumer Services violates the Do Not Call Registry … twice in one day!
Blackbird on white sand. BlackBerry PRIV camera. Photo by Chuck Miller. Here’s the deal. Last week, I received a call from a spoofed phone number. Yep, you guessed it, it was a telemarketer trying to...
View ArticleEmpire Consumer Services keeps right on calling…
Apparently Empire Consumer Services, the telemarketer that has been hassling me about purchasing an extended vehicle service contract for my dearly departed 2006 Chevrolet Cobalt SS, is now trying to...
View Article“Why would Windows contact me when I have a Mac?”
Aw, you poor, pathetic telemarketers and scammers. You don’t get it, do you? You’re that thick in the head. Dumber than a bag of wet mice. And you haven’t figured out that if you call me, I’m...
View ArticleHow to fluster a phone scammer by pretending to be the police
As you know, I’ve been having a lot of fun lately with telephone scammers and spammers. Recently I’ve been getting the “Hi, my name is Richard from Windows technical support, your computer is running...
View ArticleHey phone scammer … sing along with me!!
My tolerance for telephone scammers, robocallers and unsolicited solicitations, varies from day to day. Sometimes I just hang up on them. Sometimes I tell them I’m not interest and hang up on them....
View ArticleA lizard and a stag stole $300 from me.
As many of you know, last June I was involved in a horrible car accident in which my beloved 2006 Chevrolet Cobalt SS, nicknamed “The Blackbird,” was destroyed. The accident happened in North...
View ArticleRacer disqualified for using ChapStick?
I know that sounds like the worst clickbait headline, but you have to follow along with me on this. In order to qualify for the top triathalon race in the world, the IRONMAN World Championships in...
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Running commentary across the aisle
So recently I had the pleasure of attending two amazing concerts at the Palace Theater. The first, a couple of months ago, came when my friend Dan gave me a call. He had extra tickets to the...
View ArticleSkip a YouTube ad, catch some malware?
Yesterday, I was zipping around YouTube, looking for some clips for an upcoming K-Chuck Radio blog entry. One of the tracks I wanted to include was an upcoming collaboration between Pentatonix and...
View ArticlePull the lever, fill in the circle
Just wanted to share this little video I made a few years ago – four years ago, to be precise. And the words still ring true, even if the candidates are different. You need to vote today. Get out to...
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The get-well-soon card that wasn’t.
As you know, six months ago my beloved 2006 Chevrolet Cobalt SS was destroyed in a horrible car accident. And since then, I’ve received a plethora of cold-calls from extended vehicle service contract...
View ArticleGotta love the Burger King drive-through
So yeah, if it weren’t for bad luck I’d have no luck at all. Last Friday, I drove home from one of my doctor’s appointments. I’m hungry as anything, and I’m already in pain from my left foot being...
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Another Verizon “nickel and dime” trick
It started last week, when I noticed something different about the phone numbers on my Caller ID feature from my BlackBerry PRIV cell phone. Normally, when I receive a call from someone, their phone...
View ArticleKellyanne Conway’s feet on the sofa – tres déclassé
I think there is a White House staffer who has, on his wall, a little poster that says, “Kellyanne Conway has not embarrassed the President for three days straight. The record is four days straight.”...
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