Shipping Company Denies Responsibility After Smashing Dying Mother's MacBook, Son-In-Law Takes Them to Court

Shipping companies and couriers…. One thing is for certain. No matter where you are in the world you have probably had an issue with one at some point and chances are they were absolutely useless at resolving the issue that THEY caused with your item.

Recently, I've had two such personal examples pop up. I ordered something online to be sent with a national shipping company via two-day delivery from the next city over. After two weeks the product still hadn't shown up. After three weeks the product still was marked as being "at the depot". 

After the two-week mark, I was messaging the shipping company trying to figure out where my package was. They told me there were delays but it was clear it had been lost or ended up under someone's Christmas tree. 

Three weeks pass. Then four. They still don't know where it is and won't admit to it. 

After two and a half months they finally admitted that they had lost the package. Oh, and now I'd have to file for reimbursement. 

Three weeks later and that process is still ongoing. Now stretching out to two and a half months from what was meant to be a two-day delivery. 

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Unfortunately, the national postal service isn't much better. Another package I had ordered on overnight delivery took over two weeks to arrive. They refused to respond to any inquiry before that point. 

When I finally managed to get a hold of someone the customer service rep told me that my package had been marked as "undeliverable" despite no delivery ever being attempted. Someone just had too much to do and had stuck it in that pile where it had been sitting for two weeks. 

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But I digress. Shipping companies and couriers are absolutely useless. Depending on where you live it's possible your national postal service is too. 

Scummy Scammer Neighbor Has Kids Shovel Woman's Driveway Without Asking, Demands Payment

A group of kids shows up on your front steps demanding an extorted contribution under coercion. What is this? The local mafia or something? 

When u/beaversm26 heard a knock on her door while she was working from home she opened it to find a group of expectant neighborhood kids. They told her, to her surprise, that they had just shoveled her driveway. Promptly asking her for payment to the tune of $15 each for the 4 of them. 

u/beaversm26 was stunned. She hadn't requested or approved the shoveling and felt that the cost was rather high. Plus, she and her husband had just shoveled the drive last night. So the only thing they could have shoveled was whatever had fallen overnight.

She declined payment, which summoned the second stage of the boss fight in the form of the children's mother descending in her insolent fury.

Imagine doing a job without being asked and then demanding payment for it. Maybe just ask first? Typically when a cute group of kids offers to do something for you like shovel snow or mow your lawn you're more than happy to let them do it for whatever fee they're charging.

When asking is such a reasonable thing to expect and so easy to do it's hard to see this scenario as anything other than scammer behavior and this mother is clearly teaching the kids a masterclass in it.

Blessed Images To Serve As A Reminder That Some Things Are Nice

While you were out being a misanthrope, other people were busy actually enjoying their lives. At least that's what we've heard they do when we're not around. Being cheerful isn't exactly an innate skill had by all, so man, sometimes you gotta outsource that crap. There's a time and a place for being miserable.

What we're trying to get at here is that it's important to be receptive to the finer points in life, many of them being blessed images to brighten up that big ol' day. Sure, we could also practice mindfulness or some garbage like that, but we're busy people dammit, and we want the happiness zapped directly into our skulls at quite literally light speed. Does that count as commodifying emotion? Probably, if you want to be a wet blanket about it. 

All we know is that when we see a dog wearing a hat, it makes us feel nice for a second. So try competing with that.

Tumblr Gems To Chortle At With Merriment

Every corner of the internet has it's own very distinct type of weirdo. Honestly it's kinda like high school. There's a website for the jocks, the dorks, the preppy kids. Everything. And at its best Tumblr inhabits the space of "the kids who were willing to argue for three hours about if Batman and Scooby Doo are in the same universe." And to be fair, that was a lot of us.

There are people who will literally spend 8 hours researching and explaining away plot holes in Ratatouille completely oblivious to the fact that maybe we don't need to be overly critical of an animated movie where a Rat is a chef. But man, the deliberation is compelling. That along with extremely weird and specific stories, stupid facts and dumb drama are what make Tumblr the big giant waste of time that it is.

Could people be spending their time more wisely? Like learning a skill or spending time with people in real life? Probably, yeah. But they still don't. It is what it is. And here are some random and ridiculous tumblr gems to fight the clawing boredom.

Man Lies To Wife About Gummy Flavors For 13 Years, She Finds Out

It's extremely common for couples to pawn the bad or at least personally undesirable flavors of certain things onto each other. It's one of those universal benefits of being in a relationship. "I'll eat all the grape ones if you eat all the black licorice ones" is simply a sign of a strong union. And this husband and wife had that for years. Or at least the wife thought she did.

What this husband failed to mention for so long is that on one fateful day 13 years ago, he discovered that the green gummy bears that his wife thinks she hates are in fact strawberry flavored. In all that time she never even tasted one to make sure. This guy was reaping the spoils of candy fraud for over a decade. And only just recently, the wife actually read the back of the bag and made a discovery that completely rocked her world.

Who knows if they'll ever be able to get past this. Godspeed to them.

People Tell The Stories Of How They Got Banned From Places

There are a multitude of reasons a person might get kicked out of a place and asked never to return. Some of those reasons are valid. We've all had moments in restaurants or stores where someone was being way too obnoxious for their own good. Maybe they were actively trying to steal from the place, got caught and tried to lie about it. Or they just got all hopped up on goof juice and thought it would be a good idea to pull their pants off. Maybe they're just bored and have no reason to be there in the first place.

But often when people get kicked out of places, it's just because they're being too much fun, or they're having fun in a way that the powers that be don't understand or agree with. For example, bringing a watermelon to a bar and keeping it as a mascot. There aren't really any standard rules about doing that, unless you count the melon as outside food. But hey, if no one tries to eat the thing, there's a debate to be had over the melon's role.

Be the reason malicious or misunderstanding, the conditions of banishment are always at least interesting.

For some people who really should have been kicked out sooner, here are terrible houseguests that made themselves far too comfortable.

Unwise Guy Cries For Fresh Fries, Worker Maliciously Complies, Idiot Gets Surprise Cop Prize

There's nothing worse than when you're working foodservice and someone walks in the door right before you're closed to order food or otherwise manages to sneak in an order just before you're about to head home. It always seems to be on the night you have plans or need to study for an exam. 

To make matters worse these people are almost always the most oblivious, self-centered, and otherwise uncaring a-holes around.

For those who are blessed with never having to work in food services. There is normally a routine as you're coming into closing time of shutting off machines, cleaning out the ones that need to be, and otherwise tidying and putting things away. These processes are usually dictated by management to reduce after-hours labor costs or are otherwise just necessities that can't happen every night after close. 

Workers are never just sitting idle waiting for your sorry behind to wander in at the last minute and place an order. 

Usually, that will mean that certain items are not available for order after a certain time but, when you're working for a chain that is "obsessed with their customers" you'll find yourself having to bend over backward and turning on machines that had already been cleaned for the evening. It's one of those painful things that adds to the uncertainty of knowing when your shift will end so you can finally go home and drown your sorrows.

So, when u/Ancient_Educator_76 was faced with this insane idiot who demanded "fresh fries", despite the fact that a fresh (and hopefully final) batch had just been placed in the frier, it's really hard to blame them for what took place afterward. 

Luckily "Officer Pay it Forward" was there ready and waiting to give this loser further penance for his stupidity. 

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For more idiots out in the wild, read on about this Karen who wasn't afraid of a little rain until it started raining.