Asshat of the Month (maybe year) = Air Canada...

My oldest son is off to the UK and Europe on Thursday for 10 days with his university professor aunt (my sister) on a World War II educational tour. The trip leaves from Winnipeg, flies to Toronto, changes planes and then on to London. My sister arranged with the tour company that Connor would join them in Toronto. My son's airfare for the Winnipeg to Toronto leg was still being paid just not being used. The tour company stated this was fine as they have done similar arrangements in the past and will simply have Air Canada issue a new e-ticket for my son to pick-up in Toronto.

My sister called Air Canada last week to confirm these arrangements and Air Canada went into corporate ass-sucking mode. They are using the recent volcano eruption in Iceland, and the now cleared up back log of travel problems, as an excuse for zero tolerance on changing tickets. Air Canada refused to allow for a new e-ticket to be printed for my son and stated that if he is not on the Winnipeg flight they will sell his ticket to someone on standby and he will not be allowed to board in Toronto. Even going higher up the management line they simply wouldn't budge. He has to be with the group in Winnipeg or no go.

They then offered my sister a ticket for my son from Toronto to Winnipeg for $800 - eight hundred fucking dollars!!!! She politely told them she'd look elsewhere and bought a WestJet ticket for $335.09

The company running this tour, Education First Educational Tours, is on the other hand a totally great company. They were also pissed off about the way Air Canada treated one of their clients - upset enough that they picked up the entire cost of the WestJet ticket for my son to get to Winnipeg. Thank you Educational First, you put Air Canada to shame.

So my son is now leaving Toronto Thursday afternoon to fly to Winnipeg, hang around the airport there for a few hours and then fly back from Winnipeg to Toronto, change planes and then onto London. He'll end up spending 13+ hours in the air. Fucking ridiculous.

I'll never use Air Canada again. And I'll tell everyone I know not to use them starting with this blog.

Fuck Air Canada and the plane they flew in on.

Asshats.

Asshat of the Month = Manager of The Source By Circuit City (Keswick)...

The Manager of The Source By CircuitCity outlet in Keswick in this month's Asshat. He's a mealy mouthed little shit of a human being who has no customer service or interpersonal skills to speak of and is an all around dickwad, obviously suffering from a combination of SMS* & MPS**.

Avoid this store at all costs.

* Short Man Syndrome

** Micro-Penis Syndrome

Asshat of the Month = United Airlines...

Heard a great story about an East Coast musician who had his expensive acoustic guitar broken due to United Airlines baggage handlers being witnessed throwing the guitars on the tarmac and how United refused to pay for damages. So after nearly a year of run-a-rounds from United, Dave Carroll decided to approach things from the stand point of what would Michael Moore do if he were a song writer?

Dave vowed to write 3 songs and produce 3 videos about the events. The 1st of these, United Breaks Guitars, is available on youtube (embedded below) and is one of, if not the highest, downloaded music videos on youtube.

And United Airlines is beating a path to his door to make things right in the aftermath of the shitstorm of bad publicity that followed. Apparently even CNN's Wolf Blitzer featured the story and video on The Situation Room.

Good stuff...

Asshat of the Month = dog owner who lets his dog piss on other people's recycle bins...

I was upstairs sitting by the window working on my laptop when I noticed this asshole (pictured from behind below) letting his dog stop and piss on my green recycling bin. By the time I got downstairs and my shoes on he was way up the road and I watched his dog pissing on several other bins along the way. So I hopped in my car and pulled up to him, got out and had the following exchange:

me: I'd appreciate it if you didn't let you dog piss all over my recycling bins.
Asshat: (in a drug induced slurry haze) I don't even know where you live.
me: That's not the point. You simply don't let you dog piss on anyone's bins. If you see him sniffing to mark his territory yank on the fucking leash and keep walking.
Asshat: (in a drug induced slurry haze) Looks at me. Blinks a couple of times, puts his head down and starts walking away.
me: Fucking moron.

I simply cannot believe how ignorant some people are. Not even a thought of what's wrong with letting his dog piss on other people's belongings. And not even an attempt at saying something along the lines of "sorry, won't happen again."

Maybe I expect too much from humanity. Or what passes for it at times in Keswick....

Asshat of the Month = driver of silver Dodge 300 Lic# BEEH 228...

To the female driver of a silver Dodge 300 license number BEEH 228 on Highway 9 near Jane St this morning:

You are a freakin' selfish asshole.

Trying to cut me off instead of pulling in ahead of the car ahead of me or behind me where there was at least 14 car lengths of space. No, you had to try and squeeze your big assed boat into a spot that was at least 3/4 length too small for you, cutting me off in the process.

Fuck you. I'm glad I didn't let you in. I'm even more glad that you got pissed off.

I hope you have a single car accident and die a slow, painful, firey death.

Douchebag.

Asshat of the Month = Billy Bob Thornton...

Listened to Billy Bob Thornton being interviewed yesterday on CBC's Q with Jian Ghomeshi. Seems BBT was there with his band the Boxmasters to promote their new CD. Jian's producers were apparently told not to ask any questions about BBT's acting, writing, Hollywood shite - only music. Jian made a contextual reference to BBT's history/acting, etc. in his introduction - but asked no Hollywood related questions - and BBT acted liked a spoiled, fucked-up, retarted, rich kid.



What a dick. Here's a tip Billy Bob - the ONLY reason your shit-ass band was on a high quality show like Q (with the very professional Ghomeshi) is because of your acting/Hollywood background. Suck it up Princess.

Cudos to Jian for handling the ignorant dickhead so well.

Now everyone go out and steal Billy Bob Thornton's band the Boxmasters music. Steal it all. And then delete the shit.

Good riddance ASSHAT!!!

Note: BBT does have a website related to his musical endeavors but it sucks like his ego so I didn't bother putting a link to it.