They look like your family, friends, neighbors, coworkers… But, in reality, they are free rage idiots. They walk among us, free to interact with us, spreading their stupid in their wake…

They don’t even have to be the average working Joe. Nope, they could be the most book smart person in the world, have a job that no one with little brains could get and they could still be a free range idiot.

Idiocy knows no boundaries. It doesn’t discriminate by color, religion, wealth, power, knowledge… You can still be an idiot. And every single day, in some way, shape or form, we’re subjected to these people in some form or another. Personally, I think they should all have to wear signs saying “I’m an idiot”. That way you can steer clear of them.

Yesterday’s interaction with idiots was worse than usual… I had to speak to automated phone menus…

I just heard all of you shudder at the thought. These stupid things are the bane of most everyone’s existence. But, for some reason, they really irk my nerves. To start with, I don’t know why they ask you to press one for English because the agent you finally get after about an hour’s wait can’t speak it anyway, making me think that maybe I didn’t press “1” on my keypad. The majority of the time, the automated system gets stuck in a loop, constantly repeating itself, which is irritating enough. What’s worse is when it says, “Sorry, I didn’t get that. Let’s try again.” Eventually, I just say “representative”. Usually I only repeat this twice before I literally scream into my phone, “Repre-fucking-sentative!!!” It usually works…

Yesterday, I had to call my credit card company. What a nightmare… I have one of those pre-pay cards, the kind you can only spend whatever you add onto it. It’s a good way to build up a bad credit score or to buy things online because if it’s not there, no one can spend it. However, it had its downsides. I put money on to pay a bill, they say the money is there but the company I’m paying say it isn’t. It takes forever for them to process a deposit…

But yesterday I called with a different matter… I had recently made a purchase and had never received the product. While I was at it, I figured I’d add in the transaction from April where the same problem occurred. Now, the transactions part of the app tells you very little. I have the name of the guy from the one in April and a location number. The other I have a PayPal ID name and a location number. So I get this woman on the line from another country that I can hardly understand. Thankfully, she understood the situation and thought it best to send me a new card since the one I have is compromised. I should get the new one in 7-10 days. That’s not exactly true… When My card is up for renewal, they’re supposed to have the new one to me before the other expires, yet they never do and I have to call them to tell them so.

So once the nice lady takes care of me, she transfers me to the disputes department. The woman I spoke to there (again, I didn’t understand her well) told me that they couldn’t dispute an item never received and I would have to contact the seller. Excuse me?! You’re my fucking credit card company! Aren’t you supposed to do something to keep my money safe?! I explained, nicely, that I didn’t have the seller’s information as it’s been almost a year (this is the April transaction) and she told me to look him up. For real…? Then, as for the other transaction, she flippantly told me to contact PayPal and gave me their phone number. Thanks for nothing… Cunt…

So I call PayPal… They have the most annoying automated system. It kept asking me for my account ID or to say “I don’t have one”. I don’t have one, so I told it that. It bumped me back to the main menu! Once again, I had to tell it I didn’t have a PayPal account and round and round we went until I finally got it to understand and I got a human being on the line. She spoke English a bit better than the credit card assholes and was much more helpful. In short, the seller has until the 28th to respond to the dispute and, if not, Pay Pal closes the dispute and I get my money back.

At this point, I’m okay with the PayPal thing, but I’m still not okay with the credit card people. So I decide to call them back to talk to someone with more authority (which means they just switch me over to another representative to yell at). As was the norm, I had to enter my card information so they knew what account to pull up. Imagine my surprise when the automated system told me that my information wasn’t valid! In their infinite wisdom, these jackasses cut my card off immediately! I can’t contact them and I can’t use my card to pay bills! Worse, if I don’t get my card in 7-10 days, I can’t even contact them to fucking tell them!

See what I mean…? Free range idiots; they’re everywhere!

And a word to the wise… Before you choose a prepay credit card, do your homework. Make sure that they don’t employ idiots who spew out computerized responses. I actually sent a more than strongly worded email to the CEO of the company yesterday… I can’t wait to hear his response…