Did you call MCDONALD'S 800# to complain,,, about a dirty littered Franchise location? That was, she said, an "independent contractor", Not McD's that answered.

And guess who answers?
No, not the McD Corporation.
But the perp,  the Manager and maybe Owner of the substandard Franchise!!
Do you feel like an unpaid Cop?

"Hi,  I want to complain about a messy littered MCDONALD'S  location!"

Really,  I'm the Manager.  For Years I've  gotten away with substandard cleanliness and saved all kinds of money in windex, paper towels,  mops, buckets,  brooms,  water,  trash bags, litter sticks and sooo many hours pay to employees that told you they "don't care about sticky tables, overflowing trashcans and littered parking lots."
So don't call McD,  just call me, the guilty Manager, OK?

And then you say, "Really?"

What!

Oh,  and a bag is 10 CENTS, whether you order one,  or Not!

Standard green-yellow-red traffic lights are too risky with shortened and lengthened yellow periods, and without 3 yellow end warning flashes or modern countdown yellows.

I wonder how many red light tickets and T-bone accidents and fatalities that all adds up to, just in the USA,  every year?
Dollars and Lives?

It's  kind of like Russian Roulette now,  but with cars not revolvers.
And on public streets not out at Angel Island.
Kind of 1900s ,low traffic,  learning curve thinking,  eh?

Thursday 6 July 2017 was a very DIRTY AIR DAY SF BAY AREA with low inversion cap. Some non-tv wx-guy must be honest about DIRTY AIR.

Thot you should know.

Placerville, CA. was named "Hangtown" during the Big Fat Liar, Sam Brannan-May 1848 "gold is on the surface!" mostly Not, Wild West, spend your life savings in Frisco at 5000% markup for supplies, WILD WEST, lawless dangerous and twice citywide Vigilante lynchings without due process. So use the Original name, if you go to "Placerville" and let's stop whitewashing brutal real history, shall we?

My Great Great Grandfather came to the Wild West  to work as a blacksmith.
From the East Coast side,,,
As far as we can tell he never went geology-ignorant "looking for gold".
His family was from Holland,  Gouda a beautiful canal city,  for over 250 years.
And before that Belgium.
And before that,,,?

His son started a General Store in North Sacramento and my retired Dad found the original foundation!

His son,  since many had spent their entire life savings on a sure thing and had no money to go home and were starving living off the very rich land(not nevada), started a peach orchard,  eating peaches, North of Marysville,  not hard picked under-ripe canning peaches, but Melrose,  the best eating peach there ever was.
Big as a softball freestone juicy colorful delicious,  yet the State and UCDavis have no record at all of this once valuable and highly desirable crop!

His son was super gifted with manual dexterity and design sense,  becoming a Master Craftsman,  one of the first Navy Seals before, way before they were called Frogmen in their green skin diving drysuits in WW2, and a college professor for 40 years.

His son became a Yosemite tour bus driver in the Golden Age 1970s and 80s after the Curry Family left,  and then a stretch limousine driver hauling lots of frisky bachellorette party's runs, usually young beautiful women getting drunk and getting very naked in back in full view,  so we don't  talk about him.

Oh,  and we are calling the SF Bay Bridge the "Emperor Norton Bay Bridge" ,if you want to be withit.
Not the eastern Oakland Bay Bridge,  that's the "$6B+ Folly Faulty Oakland-Jerry Brown Bay Bridge".

SPEEDO tells me, "We do not keep records of all our swimsuit patterns." Massive Marketing Mistake!

No SPEEDO swimsuit museum!?

My favorite was the brown with white raindrops.

Too bad.

I tried Yahoo.com email buy lousy CS. And tried Google's gmail.com but they ERASED MY SAVED EMAIL FILES as standard practice! Boy were We All ever Upset! And Microsoft hotmail /Outlook.com has so many unfixed issues now, June2017, like a email "Move" tap that is unreliable and a tiny subject line that can not currently be ENLARGED!

Just lousy product and lousy service, all around.

Hiring LESS SAFE but Cheaper SCHOOL BUS SUBCONTRACTORS is a Huge Mistake! I drove for one, low pay, San Diego, 1970s, and They really did not care if some cheap drivers ran the RxR often!

Not Safer!
Not.

WOMEN!,,,if you Ever listen,,, at All,,, GET Your Calcium/OSTEOPOROSIS check at least every 10yrs,,,or 5 yrs,,, Hello, are you listening!?

My Mom was super healthy and super active,  Girl Scout Troop Leader and President of the PTA--watch out Donald--and part of an Investment Club in Willow Glen that beat Wall Street and was on National TV,,,  so her FEMALE  doctor skipped doing a simple calcium test in her 40s and 50s.

Now she is 99, still making most women look like the laziest selfish uneducated anti-community people ever,  and she has SEVERE OSTEOPOROSIS,  with weak bones  and 3 cracked vertebrae, hunchback and on morphine for the PAIN.

WOMEN!,,, do you ever listen!?

Why does it take Google, over 2 WEEKS, to answer a Google Account Customer's Request? This is LOUSY CUSTOMER SERVICE, Google!

I have long reviewed Google Map locations,  and am frequently asked to do much more, especially in my half-done neighborhood.

So when I was asked to improve my account,  I did not understand it was opening a second account and losing MY FIRST ACCOUNT access!
Why does Google do This?!?
And with no option to effectively CANCEL  the second DUPLICATE ACCOUNT!!

I have written "Help" and "Feedback " almost daily for 2 weeks,  with ZERO REPLY from Google.  Guess they do need those 10,000s new Employees!
Too much slacking and long free Co. multi-restaurant dining?

With Microsoft's history of nonexistent to lousy Customer Service,  it is amazing other ".com" Companies want to copy such a Bad Example.

BEWARE if you are a GOOGLE MAP REVIEWER!

Most SF tourist don't seem to know there is a FREE SF MASS TRANSIT map at almost every good hotel.

It shows all the MUNI BUS lines,  and the STREETCAR ROUTES, and the CABLE CAR ROUTES.
You don't  have to go Underground if you don't want to!; Enjoy the Views Above!!

hint: You do not need to get on at the end of the line,  say Market X Powell. A Very Long Line!
Instead, wait at Union Square,  as the cars do Not leave the Ends Full, because it is Not end to end service, but continuous service along the line for riders getting on and off,  Not just tourists.

2nd Hint:SENIORS pay attention and get your DISCOUNT.

3rd Hint: Unfortunately  ,exact change  is Requested,,, so buy a 1DAY PASS or 3DAY PASS or 7DAY PASS at the end terminals, Union Square,  or possibly Walgreen's.

GET the FREE SF MASS TRANSIT MAP!
Use it.
Look much less confused and bewildered!
;)

San Francisco has,,, FREE WALKING TOURS, for years, with SF CITY GUIDES out of the library.

Go to any good hotel to get the brochure, from the brochure rack or Concierge.
Tipping also is "not allowed ".
Talk about a $ saver!

And there are Special separate walks,  like Emperor Norton's.
Enjoy!

Usual walking tour rates are $30-40 PER PERSON!
skip that.

In the NetWeb "world" ,it is perfectly OK to use someone else's real name as your "username" if you are first to Register it. Stupid and Dangerous! Another "Donald Trump"? He-ll NO!

Look at how unsafe their NetWeb make-believe "world" is,  more dangerous than the real world.
And businesses,  unrepresentative businesses run this Monster.
Yikes...

Think I was the first public citizen on the SF side of the Golden Gate Bridges 50th Birthday. Parked at South Vista lot. Not 1 cop in sight...and zero cars on the bridge, Hwy101 and Hwy 1.

No Mayor Feinstein and "200-300 guests" mentioned in the media.

Within a hour,  1000s, 10s of 1000s, 100s of 1000s started to amass on the roadway.
What a Day!

And do not believe the general prevaricators,  as the Golden Gate Bridge did sag Tremendously that day!

Some estimate there were 800,000 on the bridge that day,  the population of Frisco!

2017 SF "tourist season" annual warning to all Tourist and first-timers about Neighborhoods and Streets to avoid in SF due to High Crime and lack of Adequate Policing!!

First,  N-bound on 101, DO NOT TAKE the 3rd street exit N. thru the "3rd street hood. "!!
Very poor and very high crime,  day or night!!

Also "South San Francisco" is not part of SF and is in a separate County.

There are many many affordable motels on the original main Peninsula boulevard "El Camino Real " (before Hwy 101 and 280 were built and commute traffic maxed out)and good public mass transit by bus,  Caltrain(my choice), or lousy BART.  or cheap UBER/safer LYFT taxi service.
If SF is too expensive.
Or too noisy and dirty for you.

Neighborhoods to AVOID,  day/nite:
1-S.E. Quarter of SF,  including 3rd St., Bayview and Hunter's Point. Basically Everything East of 101, and South of Mariposa .

2-the Tenderloin,  whether Frisco puts it on the map or not,  both sides of Market,  West of Union Square to Van Ness.

3-the Western Addition,  new and old "projects", South of Geary across from safer Japantown, West from Gough st. to Alamo Square almost.

4-Shooter's Alley and Bernal Heights,  North of Cow Palace and Geneva to the Mission District,  West of highway 101.

5-the Burger King on Market X Grove.  3 people were recently shot on the sidewalk.  Never enough walking cops!

Google Maps should be brave enough to warn tourists and the general public visiting on business of historic, locally well know Bad Dangerous Unsafe likely to see or hear a shooting,  neighborhoods. 

Like Richmond city and East Palo Alto city.
Eastside,  San Jose.
Lower / West Oakland.
But they don't.

Ever since the 1980s, I have been fed up with the rude selfish impatient dangerous drivers waiting on SF streets to get on the Bay Bridge! Something must be done!

Maybe mandatory spacing like the English.
But since originally there were 2 sets of commuter train tracks on the Bay Bridge,  i propose using 3 of the reverse commute lanes, leaving 2. Not enough?

Maybe making both levels commute direction only,  as the Bay Bridge is the most heavily used bridge in the Bay Area.
This would be relatively cheap and easy to do,  versus building a second bridge just South.
So from 6-9am and 3-6pm both levels would be one way. M-F.

BART is not helping enough.
Neither is Caltrain south to Silicon Valley and Gilroy.

Many more passenger ferries is another idea.  Maybe fast air ride craft,  like on the English Channel.

But SOMETHING must be done!
Too many streets in SF are gridlocked by Bay Bridge commute approaches!

Most Men do not wash their hands after using a Restaurant or Bar's restroom!

This is not just a "Personal Hygiene " problem!

This is a "Public Health " Problem!!

What is the solution?
Restroom servants?

I'm  going with their Dates first.
So girl,  woman,  grand dame,  how upset are you that your Date,  boyfriend,  or Husband did not wash his hands with soap and water, out of pure laziness?
Curious minds want to know.

Fellow Costco Shoppers: I like item#88744, Kirkland cooked meatballs, Italian style beef. So, where's the Lamb?

Thank you,  Costco Buyers.
You did Good.
Like "Tommy Bahama" thick black dress socks.
Thank you again.
I bought scores.

KQED certainly has the Cash cache in the Frisco Bay Area of 8 million. But has it earned the pre-eminent $ position? How "public" has the massive fund raising hot air machine been at self promotion and public benefit?

First,  the little people love being on TV asking Others to give up their hard earned,very costly area, little or lots money.
Save the Bay needs to do the same.

There is no way KQED can compare to the super show productive WGBH,  etc. especially in the early years.
Why has KQED been so uncreative and unproductive historically?

And by KQED's own "History" admission,  they were very busy buying and selling studios and frequently moving in the early days. But at a profit or loss with all that pubic funding? And why so many studios? It's not well explained.

The most shameful event was the cancelling of "newsroom", an innovative open discussion by smart experienced reporters at a round-table,  that unfortunately some slimey oil company did not Sac. payola like.  That was definitely a cancellation Not in the public interest.  Sacramento is still smeared by way too much payola and the new "newsroom" is a tepid quarter-hearted attempt at best.

Then there is the issue of public TV cannibalism where KQED buys the smaller but competing Peninsula public TV channel and certainly it has been shown not for that station's or the area's benefit.  Cannibalism, or "mergers and acquisitions" that reduce competition and disserve the public, are you For or Against?

How much do each show and series cost?
How Fat are the un-named position salaries?
What is the "public TV" balance sheet?
Curious distrusting minds want to know.
And the wonderful Bay Guardian newspaper is gone.
And I don't  know 1 California  politician I can trust to always tell the simple truth.
Special interest(real estate) poison burlingame and Capitola(?) and most cities, counties, and certainly this state.
Nobody cares,  right?

So why are so many rich and super rich leaving their Estates to a second or third rate public TV station,  the the Environment we live in needs desperately to be detoxified ,  cleaned up, and have SFBay treated as a true Asset instead of lots of cities raw sewage and industries poisons garbage trash and landfill dumping ground,  like a fool Ass would do?

OUTLOOK by Microsoft has Many Current Problems!

"Move" and email from the Inbox to a folder,,,  may take over 4 attempts!
It may not work at all.

Choose "Unthread" to separate all your emails from their single or multiple  'Reply's ,,,does Not Work At All!

Open a new Hotmail account?
Some stranger was allowed use of my new email account and Microsoft Outlook has not fixed this in Months!

Do you get lots of scrambled letters names on emails as SPAM or PISHING or WORSE?
I get Lots!
So I 'opened a case' by Outlook on it and they did stop all these Malicious Fakers posing as legitimate websites,,,  for about 2 weeks.
Now the SPAMMERS ARE BACK IN FORCE!
I probably delete 5-10 Bogus Clearly Fake and Fraudulent emails Every DAY!
Outlook's polite "Support" and "Feedback" staff politely say "sorry we can't fix that either. "

Why aren't folder email totals listed?
Can't  Outlook count!?

The Simplest Improvements are listed, from customers, but Extremely Slowly adopted!!

BEWARE of Google Local Guides sign up!! You're NOT IN CONTROL!! if you have a problem with one or two accounts by mistake, YOU have to ASK Google for help, taking WEEKS for a fix or "Cancel!!"

This is very poor service from Google.
They want our help in correcting Their maps,  but they are TOO SLOW to help US in Return!