Frustration is rampant!Semantics is the study of meaning in language.

Why? You may ask that I chose that title?
Mostly due to getting nowhere with that high bill, although I did get to speak with the woman who thought that she could help me.
Unfortunately, all she could tell me is that I had seven complaints and that is why it was large…
I said no that is not right, not complaints, many ills, OKAY and yes I do not like them, but ‘Complaints’?

She offered for an RN to call me back, and I countered that they were not in the room with me and do not know what actually was done or not done.
My Hubby was there and like me he is baffled; since nothing MORE than usual transpired.

Later on…I did receive a call back that the doctor will go over it once again and get back to me himself…hmmm… Doctor Wonderful, now I am wondering…
I will not say anything until I know what he has to say… I really want to know why such a large discrepancy in price from previous visits?

Moving on to the next topic of my interest…
Any-who, the semantics part is that we signed up with our rewards card from our bank that we switched, one of regular cards to way back in March, got that?
It gives you back 1% on everything, 2% on groceries, and 3% on gas, all monthly and we chose to have it deposited monthly, automatically, into our checking account also with that bank, way back when we accepted their offer.
But every month we have had to call to tell them to do it.
And every month they say we did not activate it to do it…what?
And so… you got that right I had to call once again, and this time they treated me as if I was a kept child.
Asking me MY HUSBAND’S DOB, I ask you; are we in the twenty-first century or what? And worst of all it was a woman!
After I straightened her out, I told her that I brought up our rewards account online from the bank, and it stated that we were entitled to 29.1, or in bank speak, 25 dollar increments, and that we had 19.79 pending this month with (125) already redeemed, but below that: 100 points pending…huh?
I said that I want those! And why were they pending…
She said that it referred to my one time only above, the 125, in bank speak, but actually in dollars and they were already used… but I reiterated that it stated that they were pending, not redeemed, which logically it should have said, that is if that really is what they were, right?
This so-called deal, we thought was going to give us non-taxable rebates monthly that would be worthwhile and so instead of using our bank debit card connected to our checking account, we stopped using it and decided that this was such a deal to use the rewards card all of the time, but I am very good at keeping track… I go to the site daily and use an online checking that does not connect directly to the bank, thankfully!
But I check balances and always make sure to set aside the spent money in an account in that non-online account and I pay it when it gets to a certain amount, monthly or bi-monthly or what-ever it needs to be… I am always to the penny anyway. After all I was a credit manager and pay all our bills online and I did go to school for business, so that is why I do it!
Even the women Pamela Johnson in Maine, the bank representative, of thirteen years, who said that I knew from what I speak and realized that what was there was not what she had on her page…how odd?
A fly in the ointment, hmm?
Although, she was insistent and according to her we are only entitled to the $25 bucks which doesn’t seem too bad, but not as good as we thought it would be… a nice little amount if they remember to do it!

Lastly…
This is just a pet peeve of mine as many who come to this state… but it is more annoying when a news anchor mispronounces a place or doesn’t know the geography of our great state of Florida. Today the cringe factor was when NBC in Fort Myers, again, newest anchor fresh from Arizona, reminded me of how all the on air newbies should be trained in knowing the businesses unique to our area…my cringe factor this late afternoon is when Peter Busch discussed one of our Beall’s Outlet stores in Collier County, he pronounced as BEELS, which oddly enough it is not, at first glance that does seem correct but, no it is pronounced Bells, sorry Peter… train those on-air seasoned professionals with the localisms pronouncements and to this day I can remember when one weather newbie insisted we had a Punta Gorda Beach up by Englewood, and no that was Englewood Beach not Punta Gorda which is only Punta Gorda south of Port Charlotte, PLEASE, I IMPLORE YOU!
Sadly, I don’t recall what Mr. Busch’s story was actually about since his mispronunciation, to me, was as if he screeched chalk against a blackboard… OUCH!
I do believe these anchors have to be more than talking heads, since I do not believe they have the money locally for others to write their scripts for them… but they should confer, really with ones that have been here a while, hmm?

I know I am not perfect and I prove that here nightly, but I don’t get paid the big bucks and no one really cares if I goof, since they can’t hear me mispronounce those magical localisms that we twenty-six year transplants hold near and dear, but even we had to be told, not that, this!
That is what is what here…learning to meld into the place of your chosen home.

And on that note of heaven knows what, allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count those blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?