Why can't my camera remember anything?

Just recently I purchased  new digital camera.  A technology growing ever so fast, and changing as many other products in retail.  For a first time shopper in the camera industry, you will come to find many options and features.  Most of these features the typical shopper most likely will have no idea what they mean or do for the camera.  Along this list of foreign details one that can easily be overlooked is the camera memory space.

After a day spent learning what headline features for most cameras on the market today entail, I then chose which one suites my needs and budget.  The following morning I left on vacation, ready to start snapping off my pictures.  Upon the fourth shot the camera memory was full!!

I was shocked to think of all the things I learned, not once was I informed of the camera hard disc memory.  I then had to take the time on my vacation to locate a camera store and find the right memory card.  

Where was my Memory, and why does it need to be sold separately?

 - Wade Cromer

Paying for Convenience

Last week I hopped online to buy a concert ticket from Ticketmaster for a show that was playing that same night.  Anyone familiar with Ticketmaster is well aware of the ridiculous service charge they tag on to the price of the ticket, but the fees don't stop there.  There is an additional "Convenience fee" of $2.50 to print your tickets at home. 

$2.50! Isn't online purchasing more cost efficient for them?  No staffing, no overhead and I print the ticket out on my own paper.  Now you don't have to pay the fee, you can have it mailed to you or pick it up from the ticket window at the venue for free.  But the show was that night so I couldn't have it mailed to me, and I didn't want to wait in the box-office line once I got there.

So Ticketmaster won.  I paid their ridiculous price for the sake of convenience.

Submited by:  Brandon

Industrial Strength Inconvenience

What I feel is a big inconvenience is the industrial strength plastic that now envelopes many of the products we buy.  You can't open these packages.  You have to go to the garage and find a heavy duty blade to open them. 

It is also difficult to try and short-cut by slicing open a small area and then attempting to rip open the package by hand.  This can result in severe hand damage.  

If the product you bought turns our to be wrong, or does not work, you can't just box it up and take it back.  You have to gather all the plastic pieces, the owners manual (which you cut through when trying to get through the plastic), put all this in another plastic bag so you can take it back to the store and return it.

If only the item you were buying were half as durable as the plastic fortress that surrounds it...

Submitted by:  JR

I said dessert, not desert

Dear Waiter:

If you plan to refill my beverage glass only when you see me licking the bottom,  don't give me a tea glass the size of a thimble.  Where have all of the pint glasses gone?  Is their a shortage that they haven't told us about?  Are restaurants actually trying to increase dishwasher pack-out by going to miniature sizes?

Maybe instead of being so intent on saving a few pennies on the wash, you should focus on pleasing your customers and increasing your revenues.  You can make a buck and we'll all be much happier.

Bag Check Inconvenience

I wonder if anyone has ever experienced this particular airport inconvenience.  I just checked in for my United flight back to Denver.  So here's the deal:  

There are only 2 trips from Tampa to Denver via United today.  I work my way through the cattle line and finally get up to the kiosk - (by the way I love the airport kiosk.  They are one of life's great conveniences).  So I go thru the motions with the kiosk and try to catch the earlier flight.  Too late it tells me.  Guess I have to settle for the next one.  So I continue with the check in (seat 25F bites) and when I go to check my bag for the later flight the guy behind the counter says "you're too early to check your bag."  Too early?  Who the hell ever heard of getting to the airport too early?

So he tells me I will have to come back later at "time closer to my flight".  Even though I had already followed the tediously slow line up to the counter, I would have to go thru that torture one more time - if I had only known about the too early flight rule.  

Would it be too much of an inconvenience for United Airlines to take my bag at the time I'm actually checking in?  Why is that even an inconvenience?  They don't seem to mind me paying for my trip on an earlier day, but can't accept my bag a few hours prior to take-off.

Annoying