From the Cranky Side

Maxacaiburn keeps on TAKING

2009-08-21T15:33:00.000-04:00

It seems that hidden in the small print are trial memberships to 2 monthly subscription weight-loss support programs. I got charged by both because I didn't know to cancel them. Call BEFORE they pick your pocket.
888-332-2707 monthly charge $3.24

888-779-5303 monthly charge $7.14

Once the charge hits, it's NON-refundable.

Got my refund from Maxacaiburn

2009-08-17T12:34:00.000-04:00

I called them the Monday after the Post Office confirmed delivery of my return. They checked the tracking code and issued me a refund authorization code. They said the money would take 5-10 days to arrive in my account--but I had it the next day. Case closed.

More on maxacaiburn

2009-08-03T09:18:00.002-04:00

Called them this morning and gave them my post office tracking number. They see it's in transit, but won't refund my money until the post office confirms delivery. Next update when it arrives. The way they work, I can't recommend trying the product unless you are willing to pay for at least one month's supply. The "free trial" costs a lot more than $4.95 shipping and handling.

Getting ripped off makes me cranky

2009-08-01T10:46:00.000-04:00

I tried the 14 day trial for $4.95 shipping and handling. When I called to cancel future shipments, I was told to return the unused portion (32 capsules out of 60). It had to be returned insured and with a tracking #. That cost me $3.94 at the post office. The company has since charged me $58.76 while my return is still on its way to them. This is the ONLY time I have ever tried a trial offer and been told to return the product. The recording on their cancellation toll-free # says to give your unused portion to a friend to try, but once you reach a service rep, they tell you to return the product or pay! So, a $4.95 14 day trial has now cost me $67.65 and I only used 28 capsules. They are closed for the weekend, so I'll have to wait until Monday to contact them. Will I get my money back? I'll let you know.

Alienation of Affections (of a Parrot?)

2008-08-13T09:42:00.005-04:00

The Cranky Yankee went into the hospital for his breathing problems, and Mrs. Cranky got left home to care for his animals--2 dogs and Solomon the parrot. By the time he got home, Solomon had bonded with the Mrs. Solomon still tolerates Mr. Cranky, but every chance he gets, he heads for Mrs. Cranky, and he lets her rub his neck and pat his head--and he nips Mr. Cranky if he tries to touch.

How many people in the USA share your name?

2008-02-21T12:24:00.000-05:00

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Don't Even Think About It!

2007-08-07T09:33:00.001-04:00

What's Solomon's latest line? "Don't even think about it!" And sometimes he adds "Stop it!" either before or after his new phrase. He also likes to ask "What's your problem?" Wonder what he'll pick up from the Cranky Yankee next? Stay tuned, looks like even the parrot's starting to sound cranky.

Hot Under the Collar

2007-05-02T23:16:00.000-04:00

We found out why our air conditioning was costing a fortune last summer while barely cooling the house. Back a few years ago, Mr. Cranky was raising birds and had most of them in the garage. Then his breathing got bad and he wasn't able to keep up with cleaning up after the birds. Then the rats moved in to feed on the seed droppings and steal the birds' water. Mr. Cranky was up in the attic recently and found that our air conditioning ducts are full of holes. We've been cooling off an uninsulated attic and wondering why the bills were huge while the house was still warm. Now it's time to patch the holes before we can afford to run the A/C again. Praise God we found the damage before it got too hot around here, so we still have time to fix it before we both melt into puddles of perspiration. How anyone survived in Florida before air conditioning was invented is beyond me.

Look out! Male driver

2006-12-22T08:48:00.000-05:00

Mr. Cranky got a Hoverround power chair. As he's learning to handle it, anything that lands on the floor is likely to be run over and all the doorways are getting chipped, dented, torn up (you get the idea.) Our doorways and openings between rooms where there is no actual door are only about 2 inches wider than the chair, which leaves very little room for error.
Our dogs are learning to move out of the way when they hear the chair coming, and Solomon, the parrot, is just starting to get used to riding on Mr. Cranky's shoulder with the chair in motion. He was jumping off with a LOUD squawk whenever the chair moved. Mr. Cranky has learned to turn off the power when he's parked at his desk and has had to put a brick under his computer tower. The off button for the computer was at the same level as his toes. When he hit the motion control by accident, the chair ran his toes into the off switch and he lost most of a Sunday School lesson he was working on. He also has a few bruised toes because his feet are longer than the footrest.
A friend from church built us a ramp so that the chair can be driven out of the house, and another friend gave us a wheelchair so that I can push Brian around when we shop a store that doesn't have power carts. We are praying for a vehicle that can be equipped with a lift to carry the chair so Brian can go places alone when he wants to. His little Civic is too light to handle a lift gate, and I put on too much mileage to be able to swap my 2002 pickup for his 1997 Civic. I'd wear out the Civic in no time; it has 175,000 miles on it now and my almost 5 year old pickup already has 123,000.

His breathing last tested as about 33% lung capacity, but he's losing weight (over 40 pounds so far with another 70 to go) and trying to stay active around the house. He works for 5 minutes, recovers for 10-15, and does it again; but he's gotten the fence repaired, his old workbench moved back into the garage from the shed and reassembled, and the gardenia bushes trimmed . . . .

More to come--if he doesn't knock the house down around me.

Mr. Cranky is Selling Kids' Clothes

2006-09-14T11:40:00.000-04:00

Now YOU can save BIG on kids' clothes.
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Hot Times

2006-08-05T19:21:00.000-04:00

Yes, I know it's August, and it's SUPPOSED to be hot in August (at least in the northern hemisphere.) But when you have COPD and a long hot spell without any rain to wash the pollen and other irritants out of the air, breathing can get difficult. So we pray for rain, thank God for the new power chair, and are grateful for air conditioning. (And groan at the total when the electric bill arrives!) By October it should be comfortable again, and this year is going so fast that it will be October in no time.

Life is like a roll of toilet paper: The closer you get to the end, the faster it goes!

Reaping What We've Sown

2006-04-14T16:47:00.000-04:00

WOW, WHAT A WAKEUP! read it through to the end...

Dear God:

Why didn't you save the school children at ?. .

Moses Lake, Washington 2/2/96
Bethel, Alaska 2/19/97
Pearl, Mississippi 10/1/97
West Paducah, Kentucky 12/1/97
Stamp, Arkansas 12/15/97
Jonesboro, Arkansas 3/24/98
Edinboro, Pennsylvania 4/24/98
Fayetteville, Tennessee 5/19/98
Springfield, Oregon 5/21/98
Richmond, Virginia 6/15/98

Littleton, Colorado 4/20/99
Taber, Alberta, Canada 5/28/99
Conyers, Georgia 5/20/99
Deming, New Mexico 11/19/99
Fort Gibson, Oklahoma 12/6/99
Santee, California 3/ 5/01 and
El Cajon, California 3/22/01?

Sincerely,

Concerned Student

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Reply:

Dear Concerned Student:

I am not allowed in schools.

Sincerely,

God

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How did this get started?...

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Let's see,
I think it started when Madeline Murray O'Hare complained she didn't want any prayer in our schools.

And we said, OK..

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Then,
someone said you better not read the Bible in school,
the Bible that says "thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbors as yourself,"

And we said, OK...

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Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children
when they misbehaved because their little personalities
would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem.

And we said, an expert should know what he's talking about so we won't spank them! anymore ..

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Then someone said teachers and principals better not
discipline our children when they misbehave.
And the school administrators said no faculty member in this school better touch a student when they misbehave
because we don't want any bad publicity, and we surely don't want to be sued.

And we accepted their reasoning...

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Then someone said, let's let our daughters have abortions if they want, and they won't even have to tell their parents.

And we said, that's a grand idea...

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Then some wise school board member said, since boys will be boys and they're going to do it anyway, let's give our sons all the condoms they want, so they can have all the fun they desire, and we won't have to tell their parents they got them at school.

And we said, that's another great idea...

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Then some of our top elected officials said it doesn't matter what we do in private as long as we do our jobs.

And we said, it doesn't matter what anybody, including the President, does in private as long as we have jobs and the economy is good....

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And someone else took that appreciation a step further
and published pictures of nude children and then stepped further still by making them available on the Internet.

And we said, everyone's entitled to free speech....

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And t he entertainment industry said, let's make TV shows and movies that promote profanity, violence and illicit sex...And let's record music that encourages rape, drugs, murder, suicide, and satanic themes...

And we said, it's just entertainment and it has no adverse effect and nobody takes it seriously anyway,so go right ahead.

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Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, classmates or even themselves.

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Undoubtedly, if we thought about it long and hard enough,we could figure it out. I'm sure it has a great deal to do with...

"WE REAP WHAT WE SOW,"

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Pass it on if you think it has merit! If not then just discard it...but if you discard this thought process, then don't you dare sit back and complain about what bad shape this country is in!

We're cooking.

2005-12-21T08:09:00.000-05:00

We got a good buy on turkeys recently, so Mr. Cranky has been experimenting with seasonings and stuffings. He found a couple of hickory smoke flavorings on the net, and they are good. By tenting aluminum foil over the bird, he gets the seasoning to really soak in. He's tried a couple of standard bread-based stuffings (we had a few old boxes of Stove Top in the pantry) and also made his own chopped apple and cinnamon and raisins stuffing for one bird. He's planning another turkey for Christmas. I don't know what stuffing he'll use, but he wants to make a cranberry salad that he saw a recipe for. A year ago, he couldn't follow a recipe. We wrote a basic manual for other beginning cooks--it's only $19.95 at The Cranky Yankee

The medical profession strikes again

2005-10-26T00:51:00.000-04:00

Last year, while Mr. Cranky's breathing was still good enough to survive surgery to repair the massive hernia left over from his aortic aneurysm surgery, he had no insurance and owed Shands for the first operation, so they kept delaying on assigning him an operation date even though we'd made arrangements with the surgeons. Now that he's on Medicaid and can get the surgery paid for, his health has deteriorated enough that they won't repair the hernia--they're afraid he couldn't survive the operation. So he's waddling around looking like he's about 11 months pregnant. He ruined his lungs by smoking for 46 years, but some of the drugs he's been given for one of his health problems have worsened or possibly created other problems. When he was hospitalized just after his diabetes was diagnosed, one doctor told him that if he weren't taking prednisone, he wouldn't be diabetic (prednisone increases insulin resistance.) But, without the prednisone, he wouldn't be breathing. It seems like every "wonder drug" requires another (or maybe a few more) to treat the side effects of the first one. Is that how the drug companies stay profitable?

Mr. Cranky can see again

2005-07-13T10:11:00.000-04:00

And, watch out world, he's driving again. The first cataract came off 2 weeks ago, and 3 days later, he was in the driver's seat again. He is now able to get to Sunday morning church services, and to go on the Sunday nights that I'm out singing elsewhere. He had 2 doctor's appointments last Tuesday, and I was able to stay home and get a good days sleep, rather than having to prop my eyelids open all night at work. Now that he can read again, he's working on the first lesson for his Calvary Baptist Sunday School blog.
He was able to go to the Trinity Rescue Mission last night, and gave a testimony there. His shortness of breath is the only physical limitation keeping him out of the pulpit, and we are praying the Lord will give him the opening to preach again.
And I'm still Mrs. Cranky, trying to keep up with the original "Cranky Yankee", my husband for over 20 years now. The "posted by" line on this blog will always show Cranky Yankee, but you'll be able to tell from the content if it was Mr. or Mrs. doing the writing.
There's a photo of Mrs. Cranky on her blog. One of these days we'll get a shot of Mr. Cranky to post here and on his Sunday School blog.

Update

2005-06-11T20:06:00.000-04:00

The disability came in. The retro check got us the riding mower Brian needs to be able to do the yard. With his breathing problems, it took 2-3 days to mow with a walk behind. One pass and he'd be sitting down for an hour to catch his breath. We've since gotten his first monthly check. His checks cover the mortgage and a few small bills--having those off my back is a real relief. Medicaid is covering his medical bills, so our finances are in decent shape for the first time in a year and a half. Next month he starts being treated by the Clinic staff at Shands--his condition is too complicated for a GP to handle. Right now he's back in the hospital. The CAT scan they did showed some "abnormalities" in his lungs, but they didn't find any blood clots--which is what they suspected and were looking for. It was probably the only room available, but he got a very nice private room this time. I'm on vacation this week, so we would have been able to go to church morning AND evening and were looking forward to it. Because I work Saturday night and Sunday night, we usually only go to the Sunday evening service. And on the 2 Sundays a month that I sing at the local rescue missions, Brian doesn't get to go at all. He may have to reschedule his endocrinologist appointment for Tuesday, but he's determined to be out in time for his opthalmologist appointment the next week. His cataracts are so bad that he can't see well enough to read without a large magnifying glass, and there's no way he can see enough to drive. So that's where we stand at the moment, and since he's not here, it's time for me to go feed his fish.

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2005-04-16T12:26:00.000-04:00

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Social Security delays AGAIN

2005-03-26T17:48:00.000-05:00

Once we got the Medicaid card, we figured the disability would be close behind. The social worker at the Medicaid office said we'd only qualify if Cranky was declared disabled by Social Security. Well, we got a determination, but then the Review Dept. pulled the file. Our lawyer says they usually only pull them if the determination was positive, so that's a plus. But she also says that lately the Review Dept. has been reversing some decisions, which is something they rarely did a few years ago. So we're back to waiting again.

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Cranky got a medicaid card

2005-03-17T11:33:00.000-05:00

Since they told us that he wouldn't qualify for Medicaid until Social Security disability declared him disabled--diabetic, high blood pressure, COPD, on oxygen 24/7 and they have trouble determining that he's disabled?--we figure the disability should be coming through too. He's on a diet, losing weight. Doctor says he has to lose about 50 pounds before they'll consider him for surgery to repair his hernia. Proper nutrition can work miracles; have you ever met a nutritionist who wasn't fit and healthy? Go to a Herbalife Opportunity Meeting and meet a whole large roomful of healthy active people who have energy to spare. And listen to their testimonies. Most were NOT healthy, slim and fit before Herbalife.

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How does a Cranky Yankee survive in the South?

2005-03-15T12:30:00.000-05:00

1. Get used to being called a "damn Yankee" for moving in and staying.
2. Learn to like grits.
3. Get used to the heat.

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Cranky is as Cranky does

2005-03-12T02:05:00.000-05:00

How does a man get tagged with the CB handle "Cranky Yankee" (and that by his FRIENDS)?
First, he has to be a Yankee. Born in Brooklyn, reared on Long Island, he qualifies. Then, he's very opinionated, very intelligent, and quite willing to speak out. Of course, if he's short-tempered (especially when tired--like from long hours on the road), and does NOT suffer fools willingly, that helps.
Now his driving days are over. 40+ years of smoking have caught up with him, and the steroids for his breathing, combined with more weight than he should be carrying, have made him a diabetic. He's learned to cook so he can get the maximum enjoyment out of the food he can eat and inspired the Cranky Yankee website to teach others what he's learned.
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