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Curmudgeon Certificates | Now Purchase by Credit Card

You can now purchase Curmudgeon Certificates using your credit/debit card.  Quick run and shout it from the mountain top.  Stop the presses, we have a new lead story. Tell everyone you know. Scribble it on the job johnny walls.

Can there be a more perfect gift for your favorite curmudgeon for Christmas, for their birthday, for… well, just any occasional what so ever?

While every true curmudgeon is self-aware enough to know they are a curmudgeon, having official validation via a gold embossed, letter size, suitable for framing piece of card stock, is just icing on the cake.  Who knows, it might even elicit a smile.

Check it out @ Curmudgeon Certificates

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Press 1 for English – a little progress

If you read my early post “Press 1 for English, NO Thanks” you might remember my frustration at calling to activate my credit card and being forced to select 1 for English or 2 for Spanish.  I did neither and called the Customer Service number to get my card activated.  While I had them on the phone I gave them an earful about the activation line not defaulting to English after a set period of time.

Well the card expired and they sent me a new one.  Again I had to have the card activated.  I was prepared to go through the whole scenario once more.    When the automated process picked up it told me to “Press 1 for English or Prensa dos a continuar en espanol.”    I did neither again, but much to my delight after a short pause the automated process continued in ENGLISH.

I do not know if my complaint was the impetus, or maybe several complaints, but I do know it is changed.

Sometimes the little man does win a small victory.