Okay, so I was just e-mailed the receipt for a limo ride Idiot Bill took today. The fare was $85, and there was a $100 tip added.
I see three possibilities:
- IBB is a really generous guy
- They’re ripping him off (and I guess he won’t know until he gets his credit card statement); or
- He received some services in the back seat beyond having been driven from one place to another.
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Or, being IBB, he meant to put a $10 tip on and screwed it up.
Or he meant for the total bill to be $100, i.e. a $15 tip. He is, after all, an idiot.
Ah, 4) and 5) are both strong possibilities as well. Much better than 1) and 2) in fact.
Sunday afternoon, my cousins suggested we go to Seattle with them in December. It’s a tempting thought…
After two hours of dialing unavailable cabs, the limo guy turned up and IBB was very thankful?
Or maybe he is laundering dark money from Russian oligarchs and….actually I will go with either of the “idiot” theories.
@Bill: You could drop into his office and have a chat with his office manager or franchise owner. They might finally get through to him or just can him for cause.
” They might finally get through to him or just can him for cause.”
You’re making a fundamental assumption. It’s entirely possible that he gives out the right (his) email address and the people he gives it to are the ones who screw it up. It’s possible that it’s a different staff person who gives out the wrong email address to their clients. In short, it may be that there’s no cause to fire him.
(I wouldn’t bet on it, but it’s wise to check your assumptions).
James, this mail situation has been going on for more than 5 years. And he’s cc’ed himself in outgoing mail using my address.
And even if this WERE all other people’s errors, once he knew the problem existed — and that people were sending me their financial records, contracts, and time-sensitive material — his rational solution would have been to open a new IdiotBillBickel@gmail.com account and start using that one instead.
Olivier, I actually had the “trying for two hours to get a cab” thing in San Francisco a dozen or so years ago. Believe me, my impulse wasn’t to reward the guy who finally showed up.
Moot point in 2019 anyway, of course: wherever he was, IBB could have gotten an Uber in under 5 minutes.
” And he’s cc’ed himself in outgoing mail using my address.”
And SOMEONE cc’ed him in outgoing mail using your address.
” once he knew the problem existed — and that people were sending me their financial records, contracts, and time-sensitive material — his rational solution would have been to open a new IdiotBillBickel@gmail.com account and start using that one instead.”
How long have YOU known this problem exists?
I’ve known for over 5 years, James. Your point?
I’m thinking if he’s hiring a limo he’s trying to impress someone and thinks tipping a guy $100 would be really impressive. I *doubt* the person he is trying to impress is the driver.
“I’ve known for over 5 years, James. Your point?”
Your rational solution would be to open a non-idiotbillbickel@gmail.com account and start using that.one instead.
James, are you saying my “rational” course of action would have been to abandon my email account and set up a new one?
Yes, that is what those words, in that order, mean.
With all due respect, James, that is arguably the worst idea I’ve heard in a long time.
Tell me, if somebody started posting here under the name of “James Pollock,” would you just say Well dang, I guess the only rational thing I can do is start posting as “Jimmy P”?
And changing an e-mail address is infinitely more more difficult than changing a CIDU log-in.
And why would I possibly want to do that?
This is why I questioned whether those words, in that order, reflected what you actually meant
“James, are you saying my “rational” course of action would have been to abandon my email account and set up a new one?”
Well, you *did* say that would be *his* rational course of action if it wasn’t his fault.
And yet you have the exact same problem he has so…
Yet it is his fault, woozy. And he’s the one with the problem, because MY mail isn’t going to HIM, and I don’t have clients getting emails from a guy in New Jersey informing them that they sent their personal information to me because the guy they’re entrusting to handle the details of the largest purchase they’ll make in their lives doesn’t know his own email address.
Idiot Bill has problems that could affect his livelihood. I have anecdotes.
And, my abandoning my email address wouldn’t help IBB one bit: his clients would simply be sending information to an un-monitored address. As it stands now, in cases of extreme emergency, I can forward mail to IBB.
CIDU Bill – except that his problem is that he doesn’t know his own e-mail address. Getting another address won’t fix it.
My dad used to always skip the “tip” line and fill out just the total. He never got the lines mixed up, but one day a restaurant decided that they’d interpret it as him filling out the tip and ignoring the total. I’m with him that that really doesn’t come across as accidental.
Christine, right now his address is billbickel1@gmail.com, and he apparently has problems remembering the “1.”
If he switched to something like billbickel-realtor@gmail.com, presumably that would fix the problem.
Come to think of it, I’m surprised he doesn’t have an email account through work, bbickel@seattlerealty.com or somesuch.
How about if we start submitting comics we don’t understand to the realty office?
Mitch, only Realty Check comics.
Of course as long as he didn’t charge it to my credit card…
2 hours for a cab? And I thought that an hour and 45 minutes for a parking space in a garage was crazy!
I park in a NYC DOT (municipal) garage in Queens, one stop from Manhattan ( 3 stops from my client) and have done so since 2008 – when the other DOT garage I parked in was closed and the land sold. I am not a morning person. The garage is next to the county civil court and I learned that if I got there around 11:30 am people start leaving the court/garage then, so if it was full I waited a short time and got in. Subway stop up the block with convenient toilet access in the building that one can enter to get to get to the subway stop (and an art gallery to stop at on the way home in the same building). Nice and easy to get to the client.
Over the past several years huge apartment buildings have been going up in the area and the last few months I end up waiting and waiting to get a space. I tried getting there early for the last visit and it still had 8 cars ahead of me. I waited and hour and 45 minutes – had forgotten to bring anything to read and got to the client late so I was rushed – and she had made a mess of her books and business that month. I am going to her this week and checked with her as she has told me to park on her driveway near a different subway stop – I just might start doing that, even thought I liked that I was in extended walking distance of her place and Manhattan where I was parking and knew I could get back to my car even if the subways were not running for some reason. I have also learned from a friend about parking near the Mets stadium at a similar garage.
This is only going to get worse as more people move into the area and the fee for driving into Manhattan goes into affect. This is the part of Queens where Amazon was suppose to come and I was extremely concerned about the affect it would have it on those who parked in the area for the subway.
I wasn’t sure which IBB post to drop this into, but this seems as good as any. Someone else’s response to his own Ixx:
https://cheezburger.com/11832069/lazy-stranger-keeps-using-wrong-email-gets-petty-revenged